Speaking of Early Conrail

[Green_Elite_Cab]

Well, i'm looking at a few new additions.

I have an ex-Reading Company GP30 that I want to patch for Conrail, and I'm looking at another Conrail GG1 (BLI, # 4853)that has become available. Three GG1s, Three E44s and two E33s would a pretty good roster as far as Conrail electrics go. At the very least, I'll have two reliable Conrail GG1s. Apparently, the MTH unit, #4841, is an accurate representation of the real 4841, which didn't last long on Conrail either. It came back missing parts, and I'd argue it still isn't perfect. However, it did seem to run (haven't given it a "long" assignment yet).

I also have a 1981 "Atlantic Region" employee timetable, though its been updated to 1984, so I'm not sure it counts as "early" conrail anymore. Fortunately, a roughly 1977 version is available online at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.multimodalways.org">http://www.multimodalways.org</a><!-- m --> . The real goal will be to find one specific for the time period I want to model.

So anyways, here is a quick pic of some of the "new" (now several months old) conrail stuff. I realize I have no photo of GG1 #4841, so I'll have to go take one (it doesn't take a lot of imagination to see it in your mind though).

This Reading GP30 will eventually be a Conrail unit of some kind. I'm trying to pick one that I can find hanging around New Jersey when I model. I don't have all the proper Conrail decals right now anyway, so I have time to think about it. I also ended up with another Evans boxcar, this time the "blue" one. That's the first half of my 1970s Broadway Limited in the back. The photo is on my North Elizabeth Station NEC module.