Coil Steel Cars

Conrail rostered a wide variety of coil cars. Their fleet was originally composed of cars of EL, RDG, NYC, PRR, and PC origins, and was augmented by several groups Conrail purchased over the years. Conrail even designed their own Coil cars, the distinctive CoilSHIELD series.

Class 984F

Conrail's class 984F was a group of 100 Evans Type I and Type II cars built as NYC 752000-752099, carrying those numbers onto PC before being renumbered by CR.

Class F50

Conrail's F50 class was built at the former NYC Despatch Shops right before it closed in 1970, formerly PC 752100-752799. Cars were originally CR 752100-752799 but later moved to their current series, CR 627100-627799.

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Class F51

CR 623600-623699 & 623800-623899 were built by Thrall Car.

Class G40

The G40 was a single-car class. Built as PRR 387000 in 1964, it was the 7-trough prototype for the G41 series of cars. Evidently the PRR felt that the extra trough wasn't useful enough to justify a larger and heavier car, so the G41s were all built with 6 troughs.

Class G41

Former PRR cars

Class G41A

Conrail's G41A class was designed and built by the PRR at Hollidaysburg's Sam Rea shops. 268 cars were constructed between 1965 and 1968.

Class G42E

The G42E class of coil cars were built for the Rock Island as ROCK 955000-955024 by SEICO in 1977. Cars were acquired by CR in 1980 and renumbered to CR 627900-627924 in order.

Class G52A

Conrail's 300-car G52A class was built by Thrall at their Chicago plant in late 1977, numbered 628001-300

Class G52B

Conrail's G52B class was a group of 600 cars built by Portec in 1979-80 at their Winder, GA plant.

Class G52S

Conrail's G52S class was numbered from 631000 - 631137, built by Thrall Car in 1992.

Class G52U

Conrail's G52U class was numbered from 631238 - 631441, built by Thrall Car in 1993.

Class GE52 cars

Conrail's GE52A, B, and C cars were built by Greenville for the EL in 1967-69, totaling 175 cars. Class GE52A were unique-looking transverse-style coil cars, whereas the GE52B and C cars were of a more traditional longitudinal design.