Monday, November 10, 2014

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
 
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.

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