This was the Reading Company's first GP30, former RDG 3600. Like many CR-stenciled locos, this one had a hodgepodge of replaced equipment. 2168 has a new cab signal box next to the nose hood, plus the markings of the removed grab iron behind it. It was a dreary day in Aberdeen.
Location: Aberdeen, MD
Photo Date: 6-78
Photographer: Dick Leonhardt     Added: December 13, 1998

Most predecessor locomotives got CR stencils at their home shops. Many of the former Reading units that got CR stencils had black or green painted within the trim of the Reading Lines diamond on the nose and rear hood. For many shop crews, painting out the logos of their home railroad, such as the Reading Company, was a painful experience. xRDG 2168 also has two styles of CR stencils on the nose. Plus the conductor's side marker light casing has been replaced with a blue one.
Location: Hagerstown, MD
Photo Date: 11-24-78
Photographer: Bob Dobrowolski     Added: July 7, 2005

xRRG 2168 is still in its Reading colors. It's with repainted C-628 #6736 (former LV 640) and an unidentified U-boat leading a coal drag. The U-boat is running long-hood forward.
Location: Fairmont Park, NJ
Photo Date: 6-79
Photographer: Mike Szilagyi     Added: July 12, 2003

On a dreary winter day, former RDG 3601 has been fully repainted in Conrail blue with a Conrail cab signal box on the front walkway. The cab rain gutter tips us off of the unit's Reading Company heritage.
Location: Philadelphia, PA (Frankfort Junction
Photo Date: 11-83
Photographer: John F. Bondura     Added: June 4, 2002

Now this loco (former RDG 3602) got an interesting repainting when stencils were applied. It looks as if it got repainted twice. The first time green RDG paint was used on the cab. Then primer gray was used at a later date on top of that.
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Photo Date: 4-18-79
Photographer: Bob Dobrowolski     Added: September 19, 1998

Time and poor maintenance have been taking their toll on xRDG 2170 as it sits in storage at the Bethlehem Engine Terminal. SD9 CR 6909 is also here in storage as of 1981.
Location: Bethlehem, PA
Photo Date: Summer 1981
Photographer: John Prock     Added: July 12, 2003

Former RDG 3601 is looking shabby six years after the Conrail merger. The green paint Conrail used to cover the old Reading logos seems to be holding up rather well, but the rest of the unit is falling apart.
Location: Philadelphia, PA (Greenbrier Yard)
Photo Date: 10-31-82
Photographer: John Bondura     Added: June 4, 2002

This was the final Conrail GP30 in service (former RDG 3607). Conrail stored, retired, then reactivated, then stored, then reacivated, then stored their GP30's so many times even Conrail probably lost track.
Location: Conway, PA
Photo Date: 6-4-94
Photographer: Arnie Morscher     Added: June 4, 1999

Running long hood forward, CR 2178 is working the local.
Location: Baltimore, MD
Photo Date: 9-11-80
Photographer: Joe Testagrosse     Added: May 29, 2020

Former RDG 3615, nee-RDG 5515, sits in the deadline.
Location: Elizabethport, NJ
Photo Date: ?-83
Photographer: Scott Wisner     Added: May 26, 2004

GP30's were never too common on the Boston & Albany, and most of the time they were stuck in the middle of the lash up, as is CR 2188 on BOSE (Boston, MA - Selkirk, NY) at Hinsdale, MA.. CR 2188 was the first GP30 in the Penn Central series.
Location: Hinsdale, MA
Photo Date: 12-17-83
Photographer: Carl Weber     Added: November 24, 2006

A typical stenciled PC GP30, a former NYC 6118, sits with NJ Transit equipment in New Jersey.
Location: Dover, NJ
Photo Date: 11-29-81
Photographer: Jerome Rosenfeld     Added: May 27, 1998

Location: Detroit, MI
Photo Date: 12-15-79
Photographer: Earl Minnis     Added: July 25, 2004

Notice the blue cover plate on the lower portion of the nose.
Location: Philadelphia, PA (Greenbrier Yard)
Photo Date: 6-12-81
Photographer: John Bondura     Added: June 4, 2002

Note the spelled out "CONRAIL" on the long hood and nose, but no steel-wheel logo and still in PC black.
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Photo Date: Unknown
Photographer: George Elwood     Added: May 12, 1999

Location: Unknown
Photo Date: 4-78
Photographer: Joe Testagrose     Added: May 29, 2020

Former PC 2222 relettered with CR stencils and a PC SD9 is hauling a freight on the Northeast Corridor.
Location: Princeton, NJ
Photo Date: 6-13-77
Photographer: Joe Testagrose     Added: May 29, 2020

Four years prior to Dave capturing CR 2230 (former PC 2230) at the Collinwood engine terminal along with CR U33C 6551 (former PC 6551), the 2230 had been sitting in the dead line at Enola, PA. Officially, CR 2230 had been retired on April 11, 1991 though stored prior to that. Here we see her back in service for a brief time. Within a few years of being spotted in Enola, CR 2230 has become extremely rusted.
Location: Cleveland, OH (Collinwood Yard)
Photo Date: 8-10-94
Photographer: Dave Trenn     Added: January 25, 2019

GP30 CR 2231 is part of a four unit Conrail lash up at East Deerfield, MA. The 2231 had been in CR stencils and PC black up until the prior year.
Location: East Deerfield, MA
Photo Date: 1-26-85
Photographer: Carl Weber     Added: November 24, 2006

Two CR-stenciled former PC GP30's are delivering a freight with some cabins on the lead.
Location: Reading, PA (Water Station)
Photo Date: 6-79
Photographer: Robert Waller     Added: June 3, 1999

Note the odd number '2' used in the conductor-side number board.
Location: Unknown
Photo Date: 4-78
Photographer: Joe Testagrose     Added: May 29, 2020

Former PC 2236 running long-hood-forward under the wires with a classic Conrail caboose.
Location: Baltimore, MD
Photo Date: 6-78
Photographer: Dick Leonhardt     Added: December 20, 1998

CR 2246 (former PC 2246) is seen here working Greenbrier Yard in Philadelphia, but once again she will be mothballed in Allentown within several days.
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Photo Date: 2-20-83
Photographer: John F. Bondura     Added: June 4, 2002

CR 2246 (former PC 2246) sits in cold storage at the Bethlehem Engine Terminal with a string of other assorted locomotives.
Location: Bethlehem, PA
Photo Date: 3-31-83
Photographer: John Prock     Added: January 12, 2002