CR Have the Conrail fans disappeared with the blue paint?

chessie Jan 12, 2002

  1. Triplex

    Triplex TrainBoard Member

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    Hello.
    I've never railfanned in the East or seen a single Conrail engine. The only layout I've ever built was a pathetic attempt at CN in HO. Then, around 1997, I saw some Model Railroader articles on Conrail and instantly fell in love with with Big Blue and its finest engine, the SD80MAC.
    Whenever I get the chance to build a layout worthy of my dreams, I'll model Conrail in N scale, and set the layout in 1997. I used to think I was an (aspiring) present-day modeller, but I was wrong. I was a 90s modeller (but it happened to be the 90s then).
    We aren't gone.
     
  2. N_S_L

    N_S_L TrainBoard Member

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    I love the Conrail blue & white !
     
  3. omnitrax

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    Hi to all.
    Yeah Love those "White Smileys" SD 80 Macs.
    I wonder how well they would have looked if the White stripe had followed all along the Long Hood & around the back.
    Then maybe not. They look Unique in their as applied livery.
    Then again WE ALL LOVE ALL OF BIG BLUE. Right.
    Thanks.
     
  4. chessie

    chessie TrainBoard Supporter

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    Pete,
    Super photos! :eek: :eek: :eek:

    Harold
     
  5. wlal21

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    Big Blue is still alive and well in my train room and we are still here. Just got done with a detail project of CR GP40-2`s...
     
  6. NSSRNW

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    Conrail is still a very big presence on the rails in my part of Northern Va. Big Blue is sometimes the leader in an NS consist. Sometimes, Big Blue is not. But the CRs I still see are all Quality. I rarely ever see a Conrail without the word Quality anymore.
     
  7. chessie

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    I saw a couple of NS trains led by the blue units today. For the most part, all I ever see are the GE's, though we do have a GP15 for local duty and occasionally an SD50 or SD60M.

    Harold
     
  8. Don Rickle

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    [ January 23, 2006, 10:51 AM: Message edited by: Don Rickle ]
     
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  13. chessie

    chessie TrainBoard Supporter

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    Don,
    Those are really great photos of a bygone era... I still see a little "blue" on NS, but it is fading fast. :(

    Harold
     
  14. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Really nice photos!

    I've never been able to get used to those speaker/megaphone style horns/bells. They look so out of place. Such as on a Bulldog nose like 2024.

    Do I see the roof of an interlocking tower behind the train?

    :D

    Boxcab E50
     
  15. chessie

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    It seems like L&N used some of those... they were actually "electronic bells" that looked like megaphones...
     
  16. Peirce

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    What you are looking at is a Hancock Air Whistle on top of the cab of a Metro North FL9.

    By-the-way, I am curious as to how this unit managed to appear in a Conrail topic.
     
  17. chessie

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    Because it is close?? :rolleyes:
     
  18. Martyn Read

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    May well have been a Conrail loco once, for a little while! ;)
     
  19. Don Rickle

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    The FL-9 doesn't really belong here...I threw it in because I was too lazy to start up a thread in the passenger section. (It was once under Conrail ownership).
     
  20. chessie

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    I was excited to see some ex-CR locos today: one train had an ex-LMS loco on the point (still in CR blue) and the other train had a pair of CR-Quality painted SD60's: an SD60M and an SD60I.

    Harold
     

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