The lights went out at 6 Penn Center in 1992! The last day of independent "big
Conrail" played out at 2 Commerce Square (21st and Market)

"Little Conrail" kept offices there for a few years before moving to Mt. Laurel.
NS ran the Northern Region out of there for a while before moving to Harrisburg.

I went to NS about 6 months before the split. It was too depressing to come to
work each day with little or nothing meaningful to do, so I bugged out ASAP. On
June 1, 1999 I was hoping and praying that the measures I put together for the
STB would work properly after the split. Fortunately (or unfortunately) they
worked well enought to show the subsequent meltdown in graphic detail!

Yesteday, got stopped at Xing by train on CSX Abbeville sub on my way home from
work. 2nd unit was ex-CR C40-8W in faded blue paint - working hard. I was the
keeper of the new locomotive specs when the first C40-8s were delivered, so it
was specially nice to see one still getting the job done 10 years after the
split.

-Don

--- In ConrailCorp@yahoogroups.com, JEFFREY LEAMAN <RRsafety1@...> wrote:
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eastbound train showed up. I ended up seeing about 10 or 12 trains that night
before midnight. I still clearly remember at 12:01am exactly, the scanner lit
up as the dispatcher came on and said "NS Toledo West answering, over". Conrail
got signed off without anyone saying goodbye(at least in the Dearborn dispatcher
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