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SW-1
  Conrail inherited their fleet of 145 SW-1's from Penn Central, Jersey Central, Reading Company, and Lehigh Valley. Conrail assigned them to the series CR 8400-8559.
(New Photos: Nov 18, 2007)

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SW-7
  Conrail inherited their fleet of 128 1,200hp SW-7's from Penn Central, Erie Lackawanna, Jersey Central, and Lehigh Valley. They assigned them to series CR 8836-9150.
(New Photos: Nov 17, 2004)

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SW-8
  Conrail's fleet of SW-8's were placed in series CR 8600-8627, CR 8689-8700. The SW-8M's came only from the LV and were placed in series CR 8664-8688.
(New Photos: Apr 7, 2005)

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SW-9/900
  Though Reading Company and Lehigh Valley classed their rebuilt units as SW-900M's, but Conrail did not. The SW-900's were in series CR 8628-8721 and SW-9's were CR 8911-9141.
(New Photos: Nov 17, 2004)

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SW-1001
  The Reading Company and then Conrail were the only Class 1 railroads to own the 1,000hp SW-1001, assigning them to CR 9400-9424.
(New Photos: Nov 18, 2007)

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SW-1200
  Reading Company, Penn Central, and Erie Lackawanna contributed 68 1,200hp SW-1200's in 1976, assigning them CR 9315-9382. Conrail retired them by the early 1990's.
(New Photos: Nov 18, 2007)

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SW-1200M
  In 1959 EMD began rebuilding the Reading Company's aging fleet of Baldwin VO1000's into improved SW-1200M's. 19 units were completed and passed onto Conrail, assigning them CR 9301-9314.
(New Photos: Nov 17, 2004)

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SW-1500
  Conrail inherited their fleet of 121 1,500hp SW-1500's from Penn Central, Reading Company, and Indiana Union Railway. They were in series CR 9500-9620.
(New Photos: Dec 17, 2007)

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NW-2
  Conrail inherited their quickly-retired fleet of NW-2's from Penn Central, Erie Lackawanna, Jersey Central, Lehigh Valley, and Detroit Terminal. Series CR 9151-9194, 9200-9296.
(New Photos: Jan 8, 2008)

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MP-15DC
  In 1974, the Reading Company began leasing 10 MP-15DC's (CR 9621-30) from EMD. Though the locos were reliable, Conrail returned them to EMD at the end of the lease.
(New Photos: Sep 4, 1999)

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