Reading in the Conrail Era Volume 1: 1976-1982 Equipment as well as the author's

as well as the author's work as a conductor on mainline steam trains

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and other segments of the physical plant along the right of way Chicago to Los Angeles from the late 1950s to 1990

Cs of how and why Amtrak was formed and a photo review of its early diesel units as well as modern replacement power

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Reading in the Conrail Era Volume 1: 1976-1982 Equipment as well as the author'sBob Davis Volume 1 begins with a sampling of the final year of the Reading as an independent company and continues with a look at the first seven years of the railroad as an important component of the new Conrail system. We see the multi color motive power of early Conrail gradually transforming into CR dress blue with more variety provided by the diesels of the Delaware & Hudson, whose trackage rights over the Reading continued into the Conrail era.