Occasionally, power from other roads would venture on CR's rails. Run-through power from western roads could be seen on interchange trains at Yards like Elkhart and Avon, while power from CSX and NS could be found on interchange trains to and from Selkirk and Allentown.
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An eastbound Conrail train is waiting at CP Banks to head in toward Enola.
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A Conrail SD50 leads some CSX units on an eastbound tied up in the controlled siding at CP Banks.
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Conrail tried out EMD SD-60 demo units in 1985. Here a pair, EMD 4 and 1, back a loaded ore train through Hudson interlocking and onto the Akron Branch 09-07-85. The crew was outlawing and both mains were needed clear for other traffic, hence this move. Conrail must have liked what they saw as they purchased 3 of the 4 demos and eventually added more after that.
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CR GP38-2 8031, CNW GP30 809 & CR GP40 3006 lead NY74 at Howells Jct NY in 6-77.
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While CR 9998 sits on a siding, a Westbound D&H train arrives for a recrew.
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Power short Conrail used a group of Canadian National units to help it through it's first year. Included in that group of CN units were several GP40-2LW GMD's, certainly interesting as this was well before our "wide cab" revolution. Note the 4 section window, the triangle cluster of marker lights, and the high mounted bell. This is CR train TV-98 on the former Erie Lackawanna in Akron, Ohio in October of 1976. The two GP40-2LW's are followed by an M630. Word was Conrail crews "abused" these units, so once the original group returned to Canada few others came to replace them.
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UP 9564 trails along on TV9 at Washington depot, MA. on July 2, 1999.
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Folks, this is not a post split image. The CSX locomotives were foreign power at the time. CSX 6240, CSX 6236 and unidentified CSX six axle GE still in Family Lines colors are on SECS at Ridgefield Park, NJ 10/1997. CSX GP40-2's and B36-7's were common lead units of CSSE and SECS due to cab signal requirements on the former RF&P.
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CSXT 7850 and fellow GE lead an eastbound autorack train at Waterloo, IN on May 23, 1999
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Two CSX C40-8's and the 6829 lead ALCS0 through Blandon. MP0.8 CR Reading Line
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CSXT 9051 and fellow CSX GE lead train TV204 at the county road 7 crossing west of Bryan, OH on April 2, 1999. Chris Howe photo
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D&H train BM-2 is led by a scruffy looking 2303. Thsoe 4 lightning stripes behind it sure look nice! This view from the bridge at Browns Crossing has been a railfan favorite for decades.
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A Westbound D&H train appears to be racing a station wagon as it departs Hornell.
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The Tier was always famous for its semaphores. CP train 270, with a nice D&H unit leading, is running wrong main at Browns Crossing.
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The D&H salt train gets the power added to the rear end of the train. This train would usually have 3 units, and the power was divided up to both ends of the train between Hornell and the salt mine at Retsof. The connector switch to the branch at Attica faced West, so the train would just reverse directions at Attica to get on or off the branch.
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A Westbound D&H train blasts out of Hornell. The caboose of an Eastbound CR train is parked by the signal in front of the station. The head end will have to wait for the D&H train to leave before they can change crews.
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A look at the crew change area in Hornell. The small gray building was the crew office. The large brown building on the hillside was the crew motel. The end of the motel that is just above the roof of the crew office was the cafeteria.
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D&H train Apollo-1 stops at Hornell for a crew change. The 803 was one of the 3 SD-45s that was swapped back from the EL for 3 U-33Cs before Conrails start.
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CP 5529 leads sister CP SD40 5530 and a GATX, ex UP, leaser SD50 with DHT8 at Brown's Crossing, NY. on May 6, 1993.
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CP 676 takes DHT9 through Dalton, New York on May 7, 1993. The CP acquired several of these ex KCS SD40's and a quick "patch job" resulted in what was known as the "reverse CP scheme".
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DHT9 cants to the curve coming up on the "Cemetary crossing" in Cameron, NY. That "Candy Apple Red" used by the SOO had to be one of the most striking colors ever applied to a locomotive.
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When Conrail was created in 1976, they were desperately power short and leased whatever was available as this shot by Kevin Nelson proves, showing DMIR Alco C630 902 at Elkhart yard 17 days into CR on April 17, 1976. Kevin Nelson photo with permission
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EL caboose C216, a former Erie car, is with BN RS-3 4065- still wearing SP&S colors- at Youngstown,Ohio in August 1976. Conrail ran just about anything it could beg,borrow, or steal in those first few years. In the background are the open hearth furnaces of the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Brier Hill Works, operating on borrowed time.
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Before Conrail pulled the plug on the former PRR electrified freight lines they tested a couple of EMD electric demonstrators. Here EMDX model GM6C #1975 rests at Harrisburg, PA in August 1978.
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An ex Frisco U25-B sits at Hornell in the evening. This was one of several types of leased power that was on early CR.
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GTW 5923 leads CR 6098, a EL geep & a PC geep on train NY74X at Ridgewood NJ in 11/77.
