Comments on: Conrail had been in existence a couple of years by the time I shot this, but the painting over to the “Big Blue” would be an ongoing project for many years. A couple of CR geeps, 5739 & 5795, in their dreadful old Penn Central colours are seen here in front of the passenger station used only by the CP/TH&B budds by this time. The ‘Conrail blue’ van is #19387 and the boxcar, Pacific Great Eastern, adds some history to the scene. These two locomotives were frequently seen in Fort Erie interchanging traffic.

By: Stephen C. Host

Stephen C. Host — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:54:07 +0000

The station is all boarded up too…

I wonder what took less time – painting everything into cr blue or ns/csx getting rid of it

By: MrDan

MrDan — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:36:25 +0000

Looks like they couldn’t even patch them out right to keep the old Penn Central from coming back. If I’m not mistaken, they’re both long-hood-forward US-built Geeps, so would be running backwards either way. (the Canadian-built ones were oriented the right way though).

By: Larry Parks

Larry Parks — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 20:46:10 +0000

You have a good trend going with the box cars. First up every time too.