Here are a pair of Conrail images from the archives for two for Tuesday. In the top image GP38-2 No. 8126 is in Alliance on Aug. 15, 1984. In the bottom image SD40-2 No. 6479 leads a westbound at Center Road in what is now New Franklin on May 3, 1980. In a few minutes this train will be in Clinton and likely head toward Orrville and beyond.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
Norfolk Southern GP38-2 5060 is backing up to the end of the track in the industrial park in Orrville on Aug. 5, 2015. The crew will leave one or more cars and switch the rest.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Conrail GP38-2 No. 8010 is westbound west of Massillon on May 11, 1985. More likely than not, this is an Orrville Railroad Heritage Society excursion returning from Pittsburgh.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Conrail GP38-2 No. 8150 is on the point of an eastbound in Sebring in October 1988. This is the former Fort Wayne Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, a moniker that current operator Norfolk Southern has retained.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
CR 8150 is in Alliance on Oct. 14, 1988. The GP38-2 was built in 1973 for Penn Central. It was not among the locomotives rebuilt by Conrail.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Conrail GP38-2 No. 8089 and its caboose are en route to their next assignment in Canton in May 1985. The unit was built for Penn Central in February 1973 and would later go to work for Norfolk Southern.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
Somehow it got by all of us that this month marks the 45th anniversary of the Consolidated Rail Corporation beginning operations.
So to mark the occasion we set the wayback machine dial to the Conrail era.
It’s Aug. 15, 1984, in Alliance. SD50 No. 6742 is leading a train toward Pittsburgh via the Cleveland Line line through Bayard, Ohio.
Nearby is a set of helper locomotives sitting in the yard, GP38-2 Nos. 8132 and CR 8126.
Photograph by Robert Farkas
This is the Central Indiana & Western, a short line that operates about 10 miles of track between Anderson and Lapel in central Indiana.
No, it doesn’t operate passenger service. It is apparently storing equipment owned by Mid America Rail Car Leasing.
That includes former Amtrak baggage car No. 1100, which was built by Budd in 1953 for the Santa Fe, and a former Canadian National sleeper.
The locomotive, which still has some of its former Norfolk Southern markings, is a GP38-2 that is idling on a siding by a grain elevator with the passenger equipment.
Much of the C&IW business is agriculture products, but it also serves a glass company located at the end of track in Lapel, where this image was made in early December.
A pair of Penn Central GP38-2 locomotives, Nos. 8015 and 8010 are in line at the Collinwood engine facility in Cleveland on May 13, 1973. Also visible is a switcher, a high-nose GP7 and the nose of an F unit at the far right. It’s the heart of the Penn Central era, but it will only last another three years before Conrail comes on the scene to take over the bankrupt PC.
Its another Conrail two for Tuesday with images from Orrville (top) and Alliance. Both locomotive shown are GP38-2 models.
In Orrville on June 26, 1996, No. 8226 works on the Fort Wayne Line. The unit was built in September 1978.
No. 8226 is shown working eastbound on the Fort Wayne Line in Alliance in October 1988.
The unit was built for Penn Central in March 1973. Both units were later conveyed to CSX.
Photographs by Robert Farkas
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