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5/3/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Conrail
Model:EMD GP9Built As:CUT 5901 (GP9)
Serial Number:19522Order No:5340
Frame Number:5340-2Built:4/1954
Notes:Ex NYC(CUT) 5901
Other locos with this serial:  CR 7301(GP9) SLR 58(GP9) PC 7301(GP9)
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Off to Valpo
Title:  Off to Valpo
Description:  The late 70s found a wide variety of commuter services in the Chicago area. Some, like the BN or Northwesterns, were extensive. Others were vestigal remains of larger plans, and a few were always small. One of the smaller ones was the single trip on the ex Pennsy out to Valparaiso Ind, which Conrail inherited from PC. It ran with a pair of GP 9s and some ex PRR P 70s, though after the EL Cleveland train quit in January 1977, the cars from that service came west and were added to the Valpo train. This is the way it looked in 1978, a pair of GPs and P 70s, seen leaving Union Station.
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 11/17/2016 4:58:04 AM
Location:  Chicago Union Station, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CR 7508(GP9) CR 7301(GP9)
Views:  457   Comments: 2
Borrowed power
Title:  Borrowed power
Description:  A straight GP 9-CR had not started rebuilding them into the 7500 series GP 10's yet-assists a Raritan train as it gets ready to roll into Newark to take on passengers.
Photo Date:  11/15/1978  Upload Date: 1/5/2014 3:42:57 AM
Location:  Harrison, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CR 7301(GP9) NJT 5904(GP7)
Views:  590   Comments: 1


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