Speaking of Early Conrail

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Cool locomtives! When I saw your original post, no pictures were present, but I can see they either chose to load now, or you editted them in. 8598 Is a pretty good unit to, since there seems to be a lot of pictures of that one.


I suppose I should add my photo of my new Early Conrail stuff, my ex-EL SDP45, and my Silverliner IV. This prototype was nice because it used the less common "plain" CR patch, instead of the PC style "CR". There is never enough of those PC style CR patches on a decal sheet! Mount Vernon shops offers a sheet of just patches of varying types (way more than the microscale sheet), but its also somewhat expensive. I might break down and buy them anyway, just to have.



While Conrail didn't necessarily own the Silverliners, you can bet they were crewed by Conrail employees. SEPTA didn't official take over the trains until 1983. Many of these cars kept their Penn Central (or Reading Company) Decals even into the Conrail era. A few got Conrail logos, but Conrail management, based in Philadelphia, quickly noticed them and had them removed. So far, I've only spotted 2 Silverliner IIs, a Silverliner III, and a Silverliner IV with Conrail logos. I haven't seen any other commuter cars on other regions with a Conrail logo either, except for the FL9s.

#270 was the "first" PC unit. I plan to number the other #303, the last "single" style Silverliner IV.