Nostalgia & History > CR Blue Looking good

October 1996 had me at Morrisville Pa shooting what ever I could find. This set of power was what I found. They more than likely came in on one of the EB TV/Mail Trains, maybe TV2M, and are waiting to lead one of the Mail or TV Trains WB later overnight. Notice the size, style and placement of the CR Logo's, 1 CR EMD in CR Quality Paint, 1 CR EMD in plain ol "Can Opener" CR Paint and 1 GE with a different CR Q Logo as well. Who said CR in later years couldn't be interesting. Units in shot 1 are from L-R CR Q SD50 6762- CR SD50 6758- CR Q C40-8W 6127. That blue sure looks good when clean.   

2nd shot is a roster of the 6762.  Thanks for stopping by, Be well, Ben

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Two first-class Conrail images.
Bob

Ben,
From being more or less from that general area, a few times I approached the driveway to the Morrisville yard and tower/office. It was not a friendly looking place and well above the public street, I was never enticed to drive up to where one could see or photo anything. More power to you. My long departed railfan buddy, Dr Dick/Rich Pattison would have had us in the tower for a look around! I'll never understand how he could manipulate railroad people to provide us access, but I never complained! It was all good!
Thanks for a look up the driveway I never entered.
Gonut

refarkas Wrote:
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> Two first-class Conrail images.
> Bob

Agree. CR Blue sure looks good these days and in these images to this old pair of eyes. Getting kinda tired of NS basic black-and-white. Thanks for a nice pair.

MC

Most excellent. I miss those days.

That blue really brightened what could be a depressing scene. Thanks for posting..

Gonut1 Wrote:
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> Ben,
> From being more or less from that general area, a
> few times I approached the driveway to the
> Morrisville yard and tower/office. It was not a
> friendly looking place and well above the public
> street, I was never enticed to drive up to where
> one could see or photo anything. More power to
> you. My long departed railfan buddy, Dr Dick/Rich
> Pattison would have had us in the tower for a look
> around! I'll never understand how he could
> manipulate railroad people to provide us access,
> but I never complained! It was all good!
> Thanks for a look up the driveway I never
> entered.
> Gonut

Back in the 1960's my dad got us into Colton Tower (California) and sometimes a ride on the yard switchers, I'm not exactly sure how he got access, but I think an unopened bottle of Vodka may have been involved there somehow? It was different times back in those days however.

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/16/25 10:08 by RailRat.

Love it, very nice looking power. And congrats on IOTD!

JG

jgilmore Wrote:
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> Love it, very nice looking power. And congrats on
> IOTD!
>
> JG  

Thanks, Ben