Conrail Summer Salute: Big Blue Surviving and Thriving in the Allegheny Mountains

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Channel: AliceInChains243 · 2011 · Entertainment

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Summer 2010: With NS cracking down on it's locomotive repainting program, it's only a matter of time before Conrail Blue will only be a memory. Now that CSX has painted up all of it's blues into it's Dark Future livery, the rails of Norfolk Southern remain as the only place to find that occasional blue ex-Conrail unit. But during the Summer of 2010, you never would have known that Big Blue was under fire, as trips to the NS Pittsburgh Line in West-Central PA yielded Big Blue locomotives powering trains from left and right all over the Allegheny Mountains. So come along, as we take you for a very-blue ride through the Alleghenies as we give Big Blue one last salute on the NS Pittsburgh Line.

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