CSX (Conrail paint) C40-8W


CSX officially rosters 96 of the GE C40-8Ws that were originally purchased by Conrail.

CSX Conrail GE C40-8W
CSX 7329 was still in Conrail Quality paint in the spring of 2009, nearly a decade after "Big Blue's" demise.

CSX 7335 C40-8W in Conrail paint
CSX 7335

CSX C40-8W in LMS paint
CSX 7925  ex LMS 707. In the mid-1990s, Conrail and General Electric formed Locomotive Management Services, which leased out a fleet of 60 C40-8Ws during periods when they were not being used by Conrail. They were all finished in Conrail blue and the final batch had CR Quality lettering. 7925 still carries the "LMS" lettering on the nose under some spray paint.

Additional Resources:
David Bontrager  "Building a Conrail Dash 8-40CW"  Railroad Model Craftsman  May 1993  p.61-65  10 photos   converting a Railpower products UP-style shell to a Conrail prototype
CSX Geeps

CSX SD40-2s

CSX SD50s


CSX SD70MACs


CSX C40-8s


CSX C40-8W

CSX AC4400CWs

CSX GEVOs

CSX MT-6 slug


Recommended Reading:

CSX transportation: Volume one : freight equipment ; freight motive power and cars in color ; EMD General Motors diesel locomotives, road slugs and visitors, ... transfer cars, open and covered hoppers

This is a slim volume at 70 pages, but IMO well done and a quite useful reference - an all-color look at CSX, spanning the late 1980s to early 1990s. There is coverage of all the different paint schemes used in that era, including shots of locomotives still in B&O, SCL, ACL, L&N, & Chessie colors. I particularly liked the frontal shot of a GP30m in the B&O Sunburst scheme in 1995. The second portion of the book covers CSX hoppers and cabooses.

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