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U23B

GE U23B Photos

Conrail inherited 77 units from Penn Central and 12 from Lehigh Valley. Conrail purchased 10 new units. All were assigned to series CR 2700-2798.

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U23C

GE U23C Photos

Conrail inherited 19 units from Penn Central, assigning them to series CR 6700-6718. They were eventually renumbered into the 6900 series.

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U25B

GE U25B Photos

Conrail inherited their 179 U25B's from Penn Central (former Pennsylvania Railroad, New Haven, and New York Central units), and Erie Lackawanna, assigning them series CR 2500-2685.

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U25C

GE U25C Photos

Conrail inherited their fleet of 20 U25C's from Penn Central, which inherited them from the Pennsylvania Railroad. Conrail assigned them to series CR 6500-6519.

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U28B

GE U28B Photos

Conrail owned only two U28B's, both former-New York Central units from Penn Central, CR 2822 and CR 2823. They were retired during the early-1980's.

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U28C

GE U28C Photos

Conrail's 2800 horsepower U28C's were built for the PRR in 1966 and then went to Penn Central. Originally, Conrail assigned these to series 6520-6534 but later renumbered them 6820-6834.

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U30B

GE U30B Photos

Conrail inherited 60 U30B's from Penn Central (former New York Central), assigning them series CR 2830-2889.

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U30C

GE U30C Photos

Conrail inherited their fleet of 10 U30C's from the Penn Central and the Reading Company. Conrail assigned them to series CR 6535-6539 and 6579-6583 respectively.

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U33B

GE U33B Photos
Conrail inherited 81 U33B's from Penn Central, assigning them series CR 2890-2970. The only other railroads to own the U33B were Seaboard Coast Line and Rock Island.

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U33C

GE U33C Photos

Conrail inherited 24 U33C's from Penn Central and 15 from the Erie Lackawanna. Conrail assigned them to series CR 6540-6578 then renumbered them to 6845-6882.

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U34CH

GE U34CH Photos

These former EL units handeled passenger trains over EL tracks for New Jersey Dept. of Transportation. All went to NJ Transit on 2 December 1976. Conrail series 4151-4182.

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U36B

GE U36B Photos
The four 3,600hp U36B's that Conrail purchased from GE in 1976 were originally built for the Auto Train to Seaboard Coast Line specs but were never delivered to AT. Conrail assigned them series CR 2971-2974.

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U36C

GE U36C Photos

Conrail inherited 13 U36C's from Erie Lackawanna, assigning them to series CR 6587-6599.

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