The Conrail C40 series units are numbered 6025 - 6049, in sequence after the C39-8's. Some physical changes took place including the recessed sand filler hatch and vertically mounted headlight on the rear of the locomotive. The short hood end also sported the high "CONRAIL" application and single horizontal mount grab iron which was replaced with the upside down "L" irons like the C39 sisters. The C40's were also adorned with a metal GE builders plate on both sides of the locomotive's short hood end.
Other differences include the air resevoir location on the right side of the unit, enlarged equipment blower intake, elimination of the dynamic brake grids extending above the roofline, and a squared cab versus the rounded C39-8 cab.
C40-8 6034 leading an ML480X through Iona at 15:37 on Oct. 24, 1998.
TV10B, led by C40-8W 6271 and C40-8 6044, by Muddy Pond at 08:08.
CGAL-2 drifts down track 1 @ Lehighton, Pa to meet ALCG-3
Going away shot of TV9's head end shows the SP 7838, a B30-7, and CR 6031 at Huntington, MA. on July 5, 1997.
Conrail ELPI-1 with the 6027 on the point passes the Amtrak platform at Waterloo, IN on January 31, 1999
Photo taken with permission. Road power for todays EDPI sits in Edgemoor, waiting for a crew. The consist today will be CR 5606, 6029, 6771 (offline), 6179 (offline), 9x34 for 1,982 tons.
C40-8 6030 leads SECS across Snake Hole Creek at the south end of Iona Island in Doodletown, NY. on Oct. 22, 1992.
Conrail C40-8 6030 is seen trailing on a westbound freight at Tyrone, PA in 1992.
BUOI-5's power reverses direction back to it's train @ Suffern, NY
Conrail C40-8 6031 is shot in SHP-501 at Emsworth, PA in 2/1999. Unit was wrecked at Stryker, OH in late January, 1999. JB Kerr Photo
Conrail 6032 and 6775 are at Conrail's Ashtabula Harbor Ohio yard.
The headend of OIBU-8 has passed through Otisville tunnel and is downgrade to Port Jervis, NY and a crew change.
C40-8 6034 on the point of SEBO in the center of Hinsdale, MA. on April 29, 1992.
Blue sky and blue diesels, a perfect match on the Mon Line.
Photo taken with permission. This PIED-4X, the last Conway - Edgemoor train, rolls southbound on the Chester Secondary through Wanamaker Yard at 2:14PM. Conrail would soon reroute traffic and run the SCAL/ALSC combo between Allentown and Stoney Creek. The Edgemoor traffic would then be moved via local out the Linwood Branch to AMTRAK at Hook interlocking. This move was short lived as by February 1994 Conrail had reinstated the EDPI/PIED. The train was 21 x 24 for 3,388 tons. Trailing engine is CR C40-8W 6194.
This PIED-4X, the last Conway - Edgemoor train, rolls southbound on the Chester Secondary through Wanamaker Yard at 2:14PM. Conrail would soon reroute traffic and run the SCAL/ALSC combo between Allentown and Stoney Creek. The Edgemoor traffic would then be moved via local out the Linwood Branch to AMTRAK at Hook interlocking. This move was short lived as by February 1994 Conrail had reinstated the EDPI/PIED. The train was 21 x 24 for 3,388 tons. Trailing engine is CR C40-8W 6194.
Conrail C40-8 6037 leads an eastbound downgrade over the West Branch of the Westfield River at Middlefield, MA on the Boston Line at 0915 hrs 20 May 1994.
C40-8 6037 with an eastbound pig train at CP Cannon in Duncannon, PA. on Dec. 28, 1992.
Conrail C40-8 6038 leads ML420 through Northumberland, PA as a BUAL waits in the yard with SD50 6789 in charge. JB Kerr Photo
Almost new C40-8's 6040-6037 lead northbound empty hopper train UFY-??? through Montgomery, PA with 102 hoppers for Clearfield, PA. Come June 1st, 1999, both of these units would become the property of CSX becoming 7495-7492.
CR 6041 is seen at West Brownsville, PA on 5/14/1989.
Engineer Rick Kantner and Conductor Tom Hughes worked together on Conrail for a short time. Here they are on the nose of a Conrail C40-8 at Reading, Pa.
CR 6043 & CSX 7902 are seen on CSX Q296 at Cumberland MD on 7/21/97.
CR 6043 is seen on CSX Q296 at Cumberland MD on 7/21/97. In less then 2 years, the 6043 would become NS 8309.
C40-8 6046 cuts through the morning fog with TV-6 at 09:02, having just crossed the State line from Canaan, NY. on Oct. 17, 1998.
CR 6048 is seen outside the Juniata Shops just after receiving a fresh coat of CR Quality paint.
Conrail C40-8 6049 is shot at Sewickley, PA in SHP-501. Unit was wrecked at Stryker, OH in late January, 1999. JB Kerr Photo
CAAL1 is about to cross from Berks County into Lehigh County as it nears Alburtis on a very late afternoon March afternoon.
MP22.6 CR Reading Line
OIBU-2 westbound at Arden, NY with eight flats of NY City Subways headout for Morrison-Knudson @ Hornell
