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Conrail MBI Railroad Color History Timothy Scott Doherty & Brian Solomon w/DJ
Conrail MBI Railroad Color History Timothy Scott Doherty & Brian Solomon
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
144 pages
Copyright 2004
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION6
Chapter 1PRELUDE TO CONRAIL 8
Chapter 2OUT OF THE WOODS AND INTO THE BLUE26
Chapter 3LET CONRAIL BE CONRAIL38
Chapter 4INTO THE BLACK 52
Chapter 5ALONG THE OLD CANAL-THE ALBANY DIVISION 62
Chapter 6PHILADELPHIA DIVISION 88
Chapter 7THE HEART OF CONRAIL 106
Chapter 8CONRAIL LINES WEST 124
BIBLIOGRAPHY141
INDEX 144
Introduction
Its prime arteries pulsing with traffic, Conrail appeared to have an incongruous duality. On the Water Level Route west of Buffalo, or the former PRR Middle Division, Conrail provided a never-ending parade of mainline freight. It seemed all you needed was to snap your fingers, and a headlight would appear and three six-motor diesels with a hundred or more cars in tow would roar past you. Late-era Conrail rights of way were well maintained with deep ballast and heavy rail, but the dark side to Conrail's persona was ever present. The company was constantly shrinking, and the ruins of its shed lines were evident at every turn. Endless reports of line and yard closures, sales, abandonments, mainline rationalizations, and tower razings made it seem like Conrail would eventually self-destruct.
If Conrail had failed, American railroading might have failed with it, and freight railroads would not be enjoying relative prosperity today. But Conrail was formed to disappear and was never intended to last indefinitely. Conrail's ultimate demise, its split between Norfolk Southern and CSX, was a function of its success, not its failure. From this, Conrail will be remembered as a success.
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