Conrail Documents

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Conrail Documents

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Just happened upon this over in a Conrail modeling group and thought I'd share.
Due to the never ending work of Brian Ferrell, a major find has taken place.
> Like Indiana Jones' Ark of the Covenant that was stored away in a government
> warehouse - Brian has found the original CR documents on the NSTB website!
> They have been there for a few years and nobody knew it.
>
> These are massive 170mb files, so one must have a large hard drive and dsl
> connection.
> There is the freightcar list and the loco list w/ maintenance bases.
>
> Anyways...
>
> Go to:
> http://www.stb.dot.gov/recordations.nsf
>
> Then click on 'recordation numbers' on the left side under 'Rail
> Recordations.
>
> Find #8432
>
> Doc. 8432 is the master car list w/ prior number first - 170mb
> Doc. 8432A is master car list w/ new number first - 150mb
> Doc. 8432B is master locomotive roster w/ old numbers first - 6mb
> Doc. 8432C is master loco roster w/ new CR numbers first - 6mb
>

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