Railpictures.ca - A.W.Mooney Photo: 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. | Railpictures.ca – Canadian Railway Photography

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.

Caption: 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.

Photographer:	A.W.Mooney [2136] (more) (contact)
Date:	11/01/1978 (search)
Railway:	Conrail (search)
Reporting Marks:	CR 5739 (search)
Train Symbol:	Int'l transfer (search)
Subdivision/SNS:	F.E. Sta (search)
City/Town:	Fort Erie (search)
Province:	Ontario (search)
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3 Comments

Larry Parks

January 5, 2020 at 3:46 pm

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

January 6, 2020 at 5:36 am

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).
Stephen C. Host

January 6, 2020 at 7:54 pm

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

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Larry Parks

January 5, 2020 at 3:46 pm

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

MrDan

January 6, 2020 at 5:36 am

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).

Stephen C. Host

January 6, 2020 at 7:54 pm

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