This photo of a now faded and weatherbeaten Penn Central Railroad 40 foot Hi Cube box car, comes to Eddie's Railfan Page from My links page Fallen Flags.Org located to the right of Your computer screen.
The Penn Central Railroad was a short lived northeastern United States eailroad that existed from 1968 until 1976. The PC was created from the 1968 merger of the New York Central, and the Pennsylvania railroads. In the following year of 1969, the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad joined the Penn Central Merger. With more outstanding debt than they could handle, the Penn Central filed for bankruptcy as early as 1970. The PC operated on borrowed time and borrowed funds, until the United States Goverment under the leadership of President Gerald Ford, financially rescued six bankrupt northeastern U.S railroads and created Conrail in April of 1976.
This Penn Central 40 foot Hi Cube box car shows the effects of how the Jade green color scheme originally used by the New York Central and later Penn Central, turns a slightly different shade of green during weathering.
1 comment:
Hello...I stumbled across this site and was surprised to see this photo here. I took this picture back in 1977 not too far from my house at the local Agway store there in Herkimer, NY. I used a Kodak Instamatic 126.
This site is now gone and a Walmart went up in it's place several years ago. The siding was torn up as well and was cut back almost to the mainline.
Herkimer once had a 4-track mainline running through the middle of town until 1943, when it was rerouted around the edge of the village. As with many railroads, the mainline is now down to 2 tracks.
Interesting to find this page. About 2 weeks ago, I managed to take a picture of a Penn Central covered hopper that was sitting on a siding in Geneva, NY...still in PC green, marked for another owner. The Penn Central still lives on!
Best Wishes!
Michael Fullerton
(P.S.-You might want to update the year to '1977')
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