1977 Conrail Profile:
Headquarters: 6 Penn Center Plaza,Philadelphia, PA
Chief Executive Officer: Edward
G. Jordan
President and Chief Operating Officer: Richard D. Spense
Operations: 17,000 route miles
(34,000 track miles) serving
16 northeastern states and 2 Canadian provinces; Pennsylvania,New York,New Jersey, Connecticut,Rhode
Island,
Massachusetts, Maryland,Delaware,West Virginia,Ohio,Indiana,Michigan,Missouri,Illinois,,District of Columbia,
Ontario, and Quebec,Canada.
Regions and their HQs
Atlantic Region, Newark,NJ
Eastern Region,Philadelphia,PA
Northeastern Region, New Haven,CT
Central Region, Pittsburgh,PA
Northern Region,Detroit,MI
Southern
Region,Indianapolis,IN
Western Region, Chicago,IL
Metropolitan Region, New York City,NY
Employees:93,975
Locomotives:
Diesel 4502
Electric: 148
Total 4550
Freight Cars:146,495
Cabooses:2207
Freight Ton Miles: 62.7 billion
Through Freight Trains (daily average):891
Local freight trains(daily
average):447
Commuter Passenger trains(daily average):1862
Commuters carried: (WD average):360,000
Piggyback
(TrailVan) Trains (daily average):32
Piggyback Terminals:
Physical: 41
Satellite: 18
Total:
59
Flexiflo Terminals: 14
Automotive Loading/Unloading Terminals:35
Major Classification Yards: 15;
Conway(Pittsburgh),Selkirk(Albany),Buckeye(Columbus),
RR Young (Elkhart),Frontier (Buffalo), DeWitt (Syracuse)
Allentown,PA,
Stanley(Toledo),Meadville,PA, Livernois(Detroit),Sharonville(Cincinnati),Rutherford(Harrisburg)
and Cedar Hill (New
Haven).
Major Locomotive Repair Shops: Juniata (Altoona,PA),and
Collinwood (Cleveland,OH).
Major Freight
Car Repair Shops: Samuel Rea (Hollidaysburg,PA),Meadville and Reading,PA.
Coal,coke, and Iron Ore handled:
Coal: 39.8 million tons
Coke: 1.7 million tons
Iron Ore: 8.4 million tons
Outside of the track
rehabilitation, this was how Conrail
looked at the end of 1977. Ah, those were the days. As a
line haul carrier,
Conrail later pruned its system to
11,000 route miles and pulled out of Connecticut and
Rhode Island as well
as the Province of Ontario in Canada,
in a downsizing that reduced the railroad to roughly one-
half the size
of what Penn Central alone had been.
AMTRAK ROUTES ON CONRAIL
1.New York-Albany-Buffalo-Cleveland-Chicago
2.Boston-Springfield-Albany
3.Buffalo-Niagara Falls
4.Harrisburg=Pittsburgh-Chicago
5.Detroit-Kalamazoo-Chicago
COMMUTER OPERATIONS
A.Erie Lackawanna Railway
1.Main Line/Bergen County Line,Hoboken,NJ to Port Jervis,NY
2.Pascack Valley Line, Hoboken,NJ to Spring Valley,NY
3.Boonton Line,Hoboken-Boonton-Denville-Netcong
4.Morristown Line, Hoboken to Dover,NJ
5.Gladstone Branch, Summit to Gladstone,NJ
6;Montclair Branch, Newark to Montclair,NJ
B.Central Railroad of New Jersey
1.Newark to Raritan and Phillipsburg
2.Newark to Bayhead Junction (NY&LB RR)
3.Cranford to Bayonne,NJ
C. PENN CENTRAL TRANSPORTATION COMPANY
1,New York-New Brunswick-Trenton
2.Princeton Junction-Princeton
3.Trenton-Levittown-Philadelphia
4.Philadelphia-Chestnut Hill
5.Philadelphia-Paoli
6.Philadelphia-West Chester
7.Philadelphia-Wilmington
8.Philadelphia-Manyunk
9.Baltimore-Washington local
10.Chicago-Gary-Valparaiso
11.New York-Poughkeepsie- Hudson Line
12.New York-Brewster-Dover Plains, Harlem Line
13.New York-New Haven-New Haven Line
a.Danbury Branch, Norwalk to Danbury
b.Waterbury Branch, Bridgeport to Waterbury
c.New Canaan Branch, Stamford to New Canaan
14.Boston-Providence local
15.Boston-Needham
16.Boston-Readville
17.Boston-Franklin
18.Boston-Framingham
D.READING COMPANY
1.Reading Terminal to Bethlehem
2.Reading Terminal to Newtown via Fox Chase
3.Reading Terminal to Reading and Pottsville
4.Reading Terminal to West Trenton
5.Reading Terminal to Warminster-Hatboro
6.Reading Terminal toNorristown
7.Reading Terminal to Newark,NJ
8.Reading Terminal toChestnut Hill
9.Reading Terminal to Doyestown
10.Reading Terminal to Lansdale
11.Reading Terminal to Wayne Junction
E. Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines
1.Lindenwold to Atlantic City
2.Lindenwold to Cape May
3.Lindenwold to Wildwood via bus connection.
All these commuter operations resulted in an interesting and colorful set of timetables produced for public use showing
these commuter train operations. Between 1976 and 1978, Conrail issued over 256 different timetables of all forms to cover
these services, operated under contract to local authorities. The orphan operation of Cleveland-Youngstown trains 28 and 29
made their final runs on January 14,1977, thus relieving Conrail of one orphan operation. Some of the equipment used on some
trains gave a very good imitation of an intercity train service.This was the case on certain Reading trains and some NJDOT
runs.
