Today is........Conrail day! 46 years since that beginning.
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.
IMPORTANT CORRECTION: 44 years, not 46. I can’t do math today it seems.
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