Conrail #8098
Conrail #8098 is a ES44AC ( GEVO ) , 4400 HP, AC traction locomotive and was released on March 15, 2012 from Altoona's Juniata Locomotive Shops.
Brief History of Conrail
The Consolidated Rail Corporation, commonly known as Conrail (reporting mark CR), was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeast U.S. between 1976 and 1999. The federal government created it to take over the potentially profitable lines of multiple bankrupt carriers, including the Penn Central Transportation Company and Erie Lackawanna Railway. With the benefit of regulatory changes, Conrail began to turn a profit in the 1980s and was turned over to private investors in 1987. The two remaining Class I railroads in the East, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), agreed in 1997 to split the system approximately equally, returning rail freight competition to the Northeast by essentially undoing the 1968 merger of the PRR and NYC Railroads that created Penn Central. Following Surface Transportation Board approval, CSX and NS took control in August 1998, and on June 1, 1999, began operating their portions of Conrail.
Photographer: Dustin Faust
Location: Brick Yard, Altoona, PA
Photo's on this page are the property of Photographer Dustin Faust & TMiller Media
Duplication of these photo's are prohibited
Brief History of Conrail
The Consolidated Rail Corporation, commonly known as Conrail (reporting mark CR), was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeast U.S. between 1976 and 1999. The federal government created it to take over the potentially profitable lines of multiple bankrupt carriers, including the Penn Central Transportation Company and Erie Lackawanna Railway. With the benefit of regulatory changes, Conrail began to turn a profit in the 1980s and was turned over to private investors in 1987. The two remaining Class I railroads in the East, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), agreed in 1997 to split the system approximately equally, returning rail freight competition to the Northeast by essentially undoing the 1968 merger of the PRR and NYC Railroads that created Penn Central. Following Surface Transportation Board approval, CSX and NS took control in August 1998, and on June 1, 1999, began operating their portions of Conrail.
Photographer: Dustin Faust
Location: Brick Yard, Altoona, PA
Photo's on this page are the property of Photographer Dustin Faust & TMiller Media
Duplication of these photo's are prohibited
