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Nostalgia & History > Twilight of the CR 80MACsDate: 01/13/21 20:05 Twilight of the CR 80MACs Author: jgilmore Just after NS took over, I was at South Fork while two pairs of CR SD80MACs still in original paint were waiting for a crew to take a loaded coal train out onto the mainline... JG
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/21 12:05 by jgilmore.   Date: 01/13/21 20:11 Re: Twilight of the CR 80MACs Author: goneon66 those are sure some fine lookin motors...........
66 Date: 01/13/21 21:32 Re: Twilight of the CR 80MACs Author: CNW8531 Great shots and great colors! Those sure were neat engines.
Date: 01/14/21 07:16 Re: Twilight of the CR 80MACs Author: NKP715 They were great to see, even when all NS black and dirty. The West Slope
lost some of its "charm" when these were retired last year (along with the numerous other changes on that piece of railroad.) Date: 01/14/21 07:55 Re: Twilight of the CR 80MACs Author: bbaker After the split of Conrail, the SD80MACs were split up between the Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation. Norfolk Southern received 17 units (numbered 7200–7216) while CSX got 13 (800–812, being renumbered to 4590–4602). The former Conrail units were the first AC traction locomotives owned by Norfolk Southern, with the railroad not ordering more until late 2008 with an order of General Electric's ES44AC.
From Wikipedia Date: 01/14/21 08:09 Re: Twilight of the CR 80MACs Author: PasadenaSub Oh man, that blue looks so good there compared to the NS black that took over. My only railfan trips to PA and NY were in the 90s, so I only saw the Conrail era.
Rich Date: 01/14/21 11:13 Re: Twilight of the CR 80MACs Author: EL833 Nice. Pretty good bet that train would have one set of Macs up front and another on the rear, so that might explain the setup here.
Roger Durfee Akron, OH Date: 01/15/21 08:25 Re: Twilight of the CR 80MACs Author: Walla183 bbaker Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > After the split of Conrail, the SD80MACs were > split up between the Norfolk Southern > Railway and CSX Transportation. Norfolk Southern > received 17 units (numbered 7200–7216) while CSX > got 13 (800–812, being renumbered to > 4590–4602). The former Conrail units were the > first AC traction locomotives owned by Norfolk > Southern, with the railroad not ordering more > until late 2008 with an order of General > Electric's ES44AC. > > From Wikipedia Csx would later go on to trade their batch to NS in exchange for SD40-2's, which CSX in turn sent for rebuild into the spongebob square cab sd40-3's |