Big Blue Heritage, Appropriately at Pavonia. On the evening of November 10, 2019, Norfolk Southern 8098 (ES44AC) rested at the Conrail Shared Assets Operations Pavonia enginehouse in Camden, New Jersey, after arriving on NS Train 38G. While it proudly carries on the tradition of “Big Blue,” No. 8098 never actually operated for Conrail; it was painted in 2012 as part of NS’s Heritage Units program. Sitting next to it (from left to right) is a lineup of many actual ex-Cons: CSXT 8828 (née-Conrail 6431, SD40-2), CSXT 6129 (née-BO 4230, GP40-2), CSXT 4412 (née-Conrail 3306, GP40-2), and NS 3013 (née-Conrail 3300, GP40-2). Together, they serve as a reminder of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976, signed into law on February 5, 1976, which consolidated the Penn Central, Erie Lackawanna, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Lehigh Valley, Reading, and Lehigh & Hudson River into the newly formed Conrail.

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