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12/25/2024
 
 
 
 
 
By:Gary Everhart
Dates:1/1/1979 - 11/1/1983
Album Info:Fair group of slides and color photos of different Conrail ALCO's.
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CR RS11 #7640 - Conrail
Title:  CR RS11 #7640 - Conrail
Description:  This ex-LV 7642, nee-PRR 8640 RS11 now sits in a scrap line at Altoona, PA, when an unknown photographer caught the scene. No exact date in 1979 was given in 1979.
Photo Date:  9/1/1979  Upload Date: 6/1/2021 7:36:57 PM
Location:  Altoona (Juniata), PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 7640(RS11)
Views:  237   Comments: 0
EL Alco RS2 #952 - Erie Lackawanna (CR owner)
Title:  EL Alco RS2 #952 - Erie Lackawanna (CR owner)
Description:  Technically a Conrail inherited unit, it actually went from the EL roster to the Conrail scrap line. Built by Alco in December of 1949 as steam generator equipped Erie #1002, it slid into the EL roster renumbered 952 before meeting the scrapper's torch under Conrail ownership. An unknown photographer caught its last moments. No exact date in 1979 was given for the photo.
Photo Date:  9/1/1979  Upload Date: 6/1/2021 7:37:07 PM
Location:  Altoona (Juniata), PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  227   Comments: 0
CR RS3 #5326 - Conrail
Title:  CR RS3 #5326 - Conrail
Description:  Sitting amid the scrap line of surplus equpment is CR #5326, built by ALCO in May of 1952 as NYC 8326, later NYC 5326, and after that, PC 5326 before landing on the CR roster. No exact date in 1979 was given and no photographer was listed.
Photo Date:  9/1/1979  Upload Date: 6/1/2021 7:37:17 PM
Location:  Altoona (Juniata), PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 5489(RS3)
Views:  422   Comments: 0
CR RS3 #5489 - Conrail
Title:  CR RS3 #5489 - Conrail
Description:  Another Alco RS3 unit sits amid the surplus power and cars surrounding the Altoona Shops. Built in November of 1950 as LV #215, it now awaits its final days in a row of sister Alco units. No exact date in 1979 was given and no photographer was listed.
Photo Date:  9/1/1979  Upload Date: 6/1/2021 7:37:27 PM
Location:  Altoona (Juniata), PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 5489(RS3)
Views:  445   Comments: 0
CR RS3m #9932 - Conrail
Title:  CR RS3m #9932 - Conrail
Description:  A lone Alco RS3m unit, CR #9932, sits in the Altoona yard. Having been painted in the CR blue, it indicates that this loco will serve the new roster rather than ending up like so many locos in the scrap lines. No exact date in 1979 was given and no photographer was listed.
Photo Date:  9/1/1979  Upload Date: 6/1/2021 7:37:45 PM
Location:  Altoona (Juniata), PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 9932(RS3M)
Views:  233   Comments: 1
CR RS3 #5489 - Conrail
Title:  CR RS3 #5489 - Conrail
Description:  Along string of sidelined locos await the scrapper's torch at Altoona, PA. Conrail had its hands full of locomotive triage and scrapping during the first several years after inheriting a staggering array of equipment. No exact date in 1979 was given and no photographer was listed.
Photo Date:  11/1/1979  Upload Date: 6/1/2021 7:37:37 PM
Location:  Altoona (Juniata), PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 5489(RS3)
Views:  213   Comments: 0
CR Alco C636 #6793- Conrail
Title:  CR Alco C636 #6793- Conrail
Description:  This Alco C636 unit, CR #6793, was sitting in a storage line at a Cleveland, OH, yard when Ken Taylor took its photo. The loco was built in April of 1968 as PC 6343. Now just a memory.
Photo Date:  9/1/1981  Upload Date: 6/1/2021 7:36:49 PM
Location:  Altoona (Juniata), PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 6793(C636)
Views:  248   Comments: 0
CR Alco C628 #6725 - Conrail
Title:  CR Alco C628 #6725 - Conrail
Description:  Ken Taylor caught this Alco C628 (nee-LV 629) sitting in the Conway, PA, scrap line.
Photo Date:  11/1/1983  Upload Date: 6/1/2021 7:36:43 PM
Location:  Conway, PA
Author:  Gary Everhart
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 6725(C628)
Views:  255   Comments: 1


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