Conrail inherited it's fleet of EMD GP38's from the Lehigh Valley (4 units), Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines (5 units), and Penn Central (139 units). These 2000 horsepower road switchers are used mostly for local and branch line trains, and switching.
|
Ex-PRSL GP38 7672 leads a westbound freight at Port Kennedy, Pa. in the last light of a March, 1978 day. Photo by Mike Szilagyi |
|
GP38 7732 leads a motley assortment of 6 units on a westbound ballast train on the Harrisburg Line at Fairlawn, Pa. May 6, 1991 |
|
GP38 7673, originally PRSL 2013, at the east end of Enola Yard near Harrisburg, Pa. in October of 1992. Note the absence of the dynamic brake blister on the long hood. Dynamic brakes were not needed on the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines in the flat landscape of southern New Jersey. |