{"id":26020,"date":"2019-04-01T08:48:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T12:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=26020"},"modified":"2019-03-24T08:57:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T12:57:22","slug":"happy-birthday-conrail-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/happy-birthday-conrail-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Conrail!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Conrail began operations on April 1, 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The class 1 carrier It would have been 43 years in operation today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The name lives on as Conrail Shared Assets, the terminal operation jointly owned by Conrail’s buyers, Norfolk Southern and CSX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Exposed on Kodachrome 25 slide film with a Leica.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I made this photo in September 1988 of Conrail OIBU (Oak Island to Buffalo) working the old Erie Railroad near Swain, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 2019 Trains Magazine features my Conrail retrospective. This is a prelude to a new book I’m working on that will cover Conrail and its predecessors\u2014no foolin’!<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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