Penn Central Railroad EMD F 7 locomotive # 1639 at Collinwood Ohio. January 1969. Dave Gross photograph.

 

 

I found this wintertime railroad photograph at my Link page

Fallen Flags.Org, which is located to the right of your screen

at www.rr-fallenflags.org

 

I was born in 1962, and one American railroad I remember

from my own childhood growing up in Chicago, was the -

former and now long gone Penn Central Railroad.  The PC

was created from the 1968 merger of the once mighty North

American railroads New York Central, and the Pennsylvania

Railroad. In 1969, the New York, New Haven & Hartford -

Railroad, would also join and become part of the Penn Central

system. Sadly, by 1970...the Penn Central would file for it's

first bankruptcy. The railroad would struggle financially, until

the U.S Govorment would bail out the PC and 5 other northeast

regional railroads, and begin a new company known as Conrail

in April of 1976.

 

Seen here during the early years of Penn Central operation,

are Penn Central EMD F 7 locomotive # 1639 and other PC

locomotives, idling at what is more than likely...the Collinwood

Ohio former New York Central Railroad locomotive terminal

on a bitterly cold January winter morning in 1969.

 

Thanks.

Eddie K.