While mostly gone, CR’s legacy is still strong: in being an instrument of rail reorganization in the NE has a MASSIVE bearing on how freight works today. The histories of truck traffic, sprawl, deindustrialization and the rail renaissance are deeply linked to it.
(Pix: http://railfan.com/wiseguys-wayfreights-conrail-north-jersey/
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/573856/
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/352299/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseville_Tunnel#/media/File%3ARoseville-Tunnel-1989.JPG)
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/573856/
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/352299/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseville_Tunnel#/media/File%3ARoseville-Tunnel-1989.JPG)
IMPORTANT CORRECTION: 44 years, not 46. I can’t do math today it seems.