04-27-2010, 09:01 PM
Lester Perry Wrote:Green_Elite_Cab Wrote:CSX 6420 was a C&O unit, not a conrail one. The truth DOES hurt!I just took an old Conrail shell and modified it keeping the Conrail number Check this <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://crcyc.railfan.net/locos/emd/sd402/sd402rost.html">http://crcyc.railfan.net/locos/emd/sd402/sd402rost.html</a><!-- m --> it does list that as a Conrail number. My technical mistake. Also as I said before the C in CSX is Chessie.
Rivet counter for the win!
Also this was about the wrong Blue being used. I was only trying to help. After all they will be painted C&O blue & yellow with sides being Seaboard gray. I know the yellow has been changed to gold for some reason.
Well, thats an interesting paradox. CSX 6420 is a GP40-2, the Conrail 6420 was a SD40-2. If thats how your conrail model came, than that means there was issues with it before hand.
Luckily, CSX 4420 IS a conrail GP40-2. if you changed the 6 to a 4, you'd be in the win.
That said, its still an awesome unit.
Lester Perry Wrote:I have put this thought on here before but I will say it again. CSX is Chessie Seaboard Expanding. Note which is first. Now around 1960 C&O bought B&O and WM saving both from demise. Part of the deal was to keep B&O from becoming C&O. I think it was in the early 70s when the Chessie System came to life. Chessie is the C&O Cat. It almost failed and the merge with Seaboard might have saved it. This merger was CSX. Long live the Chessie cat. At a pretty close time line the C&O rejected a takeover of PRR and NYC which merged to make up the bigger part of Conrail. A few years ago CSX and Norfolk and Southern bought Conrail. So as I see it Conrail should be painted enchantment blue. I also feel that if you think about it C&O / Chessie bought PRR.
Before some poor PRR lover gets upset. I know that there is still a PRR on paper and some trackage somewhere. and this is all in fun. I know that C&O for progress is gone but I like my scenario of events because it gets you guys fired up.
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Technically CSX got the New York Central side of conrail (and some Reading), not so much PRR, much of which (and also the majority of Conrail) going to Norfolk Southern. everything else you say appears to be on target.
Modeling New Jersey Under the Wire 1978-1979.

I have put this thought on here before but I will say it again. CSX is Chessie Seaboard Expanding. Note which is first. Now around 1960 C&O bought B&O and WM saving both from demise. Part of the deal was to keep B&O from becoming C&O. I think it was in the early 70s when the Chessie System came to life. Chessie is the C&O Cat. It almost failed and the merge with Seaboard might have saved it. This merger was CSX. Long live the Chessie cat. At a pretty close time line the C&O rejected a takeover of PRR and NYC which merged to make up the bigger part of Conrail. A few years ago CSX and Norfolk and Southern bought Conrail. So as I see it Conrail should be painted enchantment blue. I also feel that if you think about it C&O / Chessie bought PRR.
Before some poor PRR lover gets upset. I know that there is still a PRR on paper and some trackage somewhere. and this is all in fun. I know that C&O for progress is gone but I like my scenario of events because it gets you guys fired up.