Conrail got 15 of their 3,000 horsepower Alco C-630s from Penn Central and they got the other 12 from the Reading. Conrail assigned them the numbers 6753 to 6779.
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Just a collection of early CR'd power nose shots surrounding SD80mac 4111, the pinnacle of Conrail's power. Left to right, F7A, SDP45, C630, C420, SD80mac, and RS11.
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Eastbound grain has Penn Central Alco C628 # 6302 and Reading Lines C630's 5301 and 5305 for power at Collinwood on a muggy August 1976 day. PC 6302 would become CR 6740, the two RDG's would become 6754 and 6758.
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A pair of former Reading Alco C630's and one ex PC geep are power for this hopper train. A little grainy due to being scanned from a print negative.
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Reading Lines C630 5307 has seen better days. It's the summer of '77, and this unit would be deemed unfit for service or fixing and placed in the Collinwood deadine. Assigned Conrail number 6760, she would never physically be renumbered and go to scrap with her Reading Lines diamonds a couple of years later. On a sad note, everything railroad in this photo is gone- units, shop, and tracks.
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Conrail ex RDG C630 6763 at Mingo Jct, OH on August 29, 1978. Photographer unknown, Chris Howe collection
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Conrail Alco C630 #6771 resides in the Collinwood deadline showing the results of being involved in a wreck. Here is a shot of the other side :
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CR 6771 was Penn Central 6321.
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A set of 4 units, Alco C630 6773, C628 6749, a U33C, and SD45-2 6666 back down the north to Whiskey Island to tie on to their train. Bridge 1 and drawbridge tower are behind the power, and that's the B&O curving away to the right behind DB. 6773 came to Conrail as Penn Central 6323.
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A pair of big Centuries are pulled out of the Rochester engine facility.
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Alco C630 6776, the former Penn Central 6326, leads two unrenumbered Lehigh Valley C628's and a BAR GP-7 through Brady Lake,Ohio in November 1976 with an empty coal train. In true early CR form, one of the LV Centuries has died leaving Cleveland.
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Four big Alco Centuries, 2 C630's and 2 C628's, pull out of Collinwood for Whiskey Island. CR 6777 was PC 6327 prior to April 1976.
