The Conrail Historical Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to preservation of Conrail's history through preservation, publication, and archiving.
The videos provided on this channel are a variety of digitized historical media from The CRHS's extensive Conrail archives.
Oh, the good old days! Conrail was the ONLY thing the government ever did that WORKED. I had many friends their. Big Blue was safer than Crash Smash Xplode and Nazi Southern combined. They should have never let Conrail be carved into pieces and maybe some of the recent disasters could have been avoided. Big Blue still survives on my N scale railroad.
David Levan was an idiot a 🤡 Conrail was better than both these railroads combined! CSX was going to merge with Conrail but when the my little pony heard it turned to a bid sadly when Levan should of payed attention to the signals from STB but hey he wasn't a railroader.
Conrail was the powerhouse it was before today railroad would be alot better. CSX and NS was and still nowhere the railroad Conrail was when it was class 1 what Conrail offered no other then or today did what Conrail could do
20% inheriter of Billie marsellies Conrail corporate law enforcement , of constitutional law lawyer co conuncil for court stand battle conrail 7:41 docket sheet right to proceed in promplus formula with our payment
In 1995 I remember my boss, the Dearborn Division Manager of Operating Rules, asking me to get a copy of the Cotton Belt employee timetable in anticipation of pursuing the Cotton Belt.
Thank you Larry DeYoung and Doug Watts for the highly informative presentations. You really fleshed out what it was like to work for Conrail and make it fun to learn about history. Also it is nice to see Bob Zeolla's HO scale and see what other Conrail modelers are doing.
Just a note about coal gondolas. I have Conrail Inside Track May/June 1990 issue that has a photo of the Bethgon G52H 503000 class gons in service on page 11. It was not a very common train at the time but they were making them that early.
Also I am so Thankful that Rapido is doing the E8s (I already preordered all three). This is a passion project for me as I had been kit-bashing them from Proto 2000 units with all new sides and roof and recontoured pilot. I have never quite gotten the hep exhausts right just the fans with 3D printed parts and new added etch parts. Now they can be redundant (thank God!). I really don't enjoy cutting roofs and sides out of shells and trying to get old Proto motors running again. I tried to do the ditch lights but they don't like to to stay on with cast metal body attaching to plastic nose.
It actually did better after being privatized, so good that NS and CSX both fought to buy Conrail, eventually splitting it up. It survives still in New Jersey and in Michigan as a very busy switching operation.
it was bad how the ICC destroyed the railroads in the north east. not granting rate changes during the opec oil embargo and the jumping in the cost of diesel fule.
They did it to their selfs,no moving with the times updating equipment and rails ,it was all on them,then they when crying to the government and got bailout on our money,like gm,Chrysler did during the recession, your billion dollar company's take care of your own companys,not on my dollar,
NS is junk I have family that work for them, they hate it, conrail shouldn't have gone anywhere, ns should have been split up they really didn't have anything until they took over conrail.
1:37 The wave of nostalgia we're currently experiencing was nowhere to be seen in 1981. This assessment of the steam locomotive was frank and accurate, at least from the perspective of the operating department.
My dad said Conrail needed to come back after the big 4 rose up to take over the rails. I still wish it would happen. The big suits at the top of NFS and CSX, BNSF and UP are in the business of making money, not running a rail road.
I appreciate these videos, my dad was Penn Central, he started working with them once he got back from Vietnam, then he went to conrail as a rail gang member. He was very proud of the work he did to fix the rail lines. I'm 1996 he went to CSX to conductor/Engineer school. He retired in 2006 and passed away in 2009. He was always proud of the rail road and I was proud of him when I was little. I was born in 1985 and remember being around 4 or 5 wearing his conrail quality hard hat when I was little. I get a kick out of seeing what he was apart of now that I'm older. Miss the old man.
My father started working for Southern Pacific out of Vietnam. He learned teletype after he got hurt and wanted to do another tour .He did teletype for SP until 84 then started running ahead of the train opening 3 trestles on the Oregon coast . he retired from up in 08 and was gone in 09 so the bloody nose was a big part of my childhood. I got to ride in engines and a caboose a few times the fact that they always started or ended there contact with my dad at the coos bay depot made it easy for Mr to convince him to ask if I could ride the train
I know my Uncle Bill who was a conductor does, and probably my father who was hired as a conductor through Conrail then got absorbed into Norfolk Southern.
At one time Conrail had two yards in Louisville. One was on the site where Slugger Field sits now. It was a scrap yard that was originally owned by the New York Central. The second one was originally owned by the PRR. It still exists and I think it's currently owned by the Louisville & Indiana RR. Photos of them during the Conrail days are hard to come by now. If anyone would have them it would probably be the U. of Louisville archive.
Love the engineer, great video. Grew up watching these Conrails. Even got to climb into the cab as a kid. Engineer let me come aboard at the Avon,IN switch yard. It was a dream of mine to work there. Ended up having to settle pulling doubles in trucking but I never forget these trains were my first ❤
I spent a good part of my life on CR-19 from 1995-1999 that Conrail utilized for numerous over the road conducted through the Technical Services Laboratory. I was the Electrical Engineer their during that time before moving on to NS down in Roanoke. Needless to say I placed an order for the Conrail Research & Business Trains book, i'll be curious to 'see' who provided any of the information pertaining to CR-19 and the Lab etc.
you guy should get a conrail sd70mac form csx so it be the first conrail sd70mac . you also get new york central gp40 3046 she is now own be kbs rairoad seach it up she was never repaint by penn central railroad on till the 70 there need to a new york central gp40 in a museum and you are the one to do csx have a couple of prr sd40 6049 she my fav engie csx also has a cnj sd40 her number is 3064 she was originally built for b&o rail 1967 cnj gp40p you guy shoud from njt before there some year csx have penn central gp38-2 and conrail gp40-2 all of the engie type you guy and girl show should your emd to go a long with you box car
As a locomotive engineer I can say it was the best company and the best job I ever had. Conrail took nothing and made something..... More than I can say for other roads.
My dad was rail gang from around 76 to 95, conrail, he left conrail for CSX to become a conductor/engineer and he did it, was proud of him. But I always felt like despite becoming a engineer for CSX, he was most proud of his work as a rail gang member for Conrail, he kept a book with pictures of all the track they tore up and the new track they laid down. He would tell me how bad the rails had become before conrail and told me about all the guys that would get hurt, but their job was to try and fix all of that and he was very proud. When he was sick he left me a note and it pulls at my heart to this day but he got cancer and he put, the best day of my week was coming home to you kids on a Thursday or Friday but my worst was going back on the road on Sunday, he said it killed him being away from us when we were little but he didn't understand that I was super proud of him and still am to this day.
@@The_PaleHorseman Absolutely the rail gang was a very very hard job without those guys I couldn't turn wheels. Becoming a locomotive engineer is a lot of work... You have to know what you're doing and keep your head about yourself. It was a sad day when Norfolk Southern and CSX broke up Conrail. I will admit that it was the most fun job I ever had my entire life. CSX has changed quite a bit not for the good. Still a lot of hard-working people there but management this that and the other you know how it is. Some of my greatest stories and experiences were with Conrail and CSX. I do miss it.
@@308hit yes sir, he worked for em from 75ish to 2006 when he retired to the farm in Kentucky. I miss talkin to him about the rail road. I use to tell him when I was little I wanted to be like him and he would reply with "No son, I want you to go to school and be something better than what I do because I don't want you to get hurt." I am a jet engine mechanic now. A part of me I won't lie wants to just go and do it. I'm 36, no children of my own and it's just me. I love the road. I know you live by the phone with the crew callers calling at all hours and the 8 hour turn arounds, I know the signaling, I know it's hard ass work, but I wanna do it because he did. I had many that knew my dad call me crazy if I do it but I'm set to retire in a few more years and I would like to just do it just because. I had many tell me my dad would be heart broken to see what it has become. My dad was out of Ohio and Kentucky. Ohio with conrail, and Louisville with CSX.
@@The_PaleHorseman When I left Conrail I started collecting everything and anything that was Conrail because believe it or not they had a place called The Conrail store. I had quite a vast collection I sold about half of it though I still got a bunch of stuff.
I'm curious as to what Pantone number Conrail blue is? It kind of looks like Process Blue but I'm not sure. Being a Louisville fan the only time you will ever hear me say "Go Big Blue" is when I'm talking about Conrail.
@@rudygarbely OK. Thanks for responding. I was an advertising major back in college so I had to know all of that Pantone stuff at one time. Cameras can be somewhat unreliable when it comes to accurately reproducing colors so sometimes you just have to rely on official sources and the color charts.
