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Conrail photographs 1993.231 This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on September 14, 2021. Description is written in: English. Describing Archives: A Content Standard Audiovisual Collections PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library Conrail photographs 1993.231 Table of Contents Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3 Historical Note ............................................................................................................................................... 4 Scope and Content ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 5 Controlled Access Headings .......................................................................................................................... 6 Reproduction note .......................................................................................................................................... 6 Collection Inventory ....................................................................................................................................... 6 Pennsylvania Railroad, Penn Central, and Conrail photographs ................................................................ 6 Pennsylvania Railroad transparencies ....................................................................................................... 52 Penn Central slides .................................................................................................................................... 53 Pennsylvania Railroad slides ..................................................................................................................... 54 Pennsylvania Railroad Stockholders meeting presentation lantern slides ................................................ 54 Films .......................................................................................................................................................... 54 - Page 2 - Conrail photographs 1993.231 Summary Information Repository: Audiovisual Collections Creator: ConRail Title: Conrail photographs ID: 1993.231 Date [inclusive]: 1900-1979 Physical Description: 24 Linear Feet Physical Description: 3,352 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. and smaller. 408 photographic prints : color ; 8 x 10 in. and smaller. 3 photographic prints : b&w ; 11 x 14 in. 15 photographic prints : color ; 11 x 14 in. 86 negatives : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. 3 negatives : color ; 8 x 10 in. 3 negatives : b&w ; 5 x7 in. 2 negatives : color ; 5 x7 in. 5,147 negatives : b&w ; 35mm. 362 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. 135 negatives : color ; 4 x 5 in. 160 negatives : color ; 120mm. 1,033 negatives : b&w ; 120mm. 980 slides : color ; 35mm. 97 slides : lantern, colored ; 3 x4 in. 143 transparencies : color ; 4 x 5 in. 1,878 transparencies : color, some Anscochrome, Ektachrome and Kodachrome ; 120mm. 292 contact sheets : b&w ; 35mm. 10 contact sheets : color ; 35mm. 131 contact sheets : b&w ; 120mm. 75 contact sheets : color ; 120mm. 14 reels : sound, color and b&w ; 16 mm. 1 item : desk flag ; 16 in. high. 1 item : commemorative medal ; 3 in. diameter. Language of the English . Material: Abstract: The Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was incorporated in October 1974. It was formed under the auspices of the United States Railway Association, a quasi-public agency established for the purpose of solving the problems of bankrupt railroads in the Northeast and Midwest. The Conrail photograph collection consists of a large number of images from its company files, but the majority of the material comes from its predecessor companies: Pennsylvania Railroad and Penn Central Transportation Company. These items are predominanatly composed of photographs, negatives, transparencies, lantern slides, and films. ^ Return to Table of Contents - Page 3- Conrail photographs 1993.231 Historical Note The Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail) was incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania on Oct. 25, 1974. It was formed under the auspices of the United States Railway Association, a quasi-public agency established for the purpose of solving the problems of bankrupt railroads in the Northeast and Midwest. The USRA conducted elaborate studies to determine which portions of the rail network could be made self-supporting. Additional so-called light-density mileage was also preserved under political pressure from shippers and communities. Those portions of the assets of six major bankrupt railroads (the Penn Central Transportation Company (itself a merger of the Pennsylvania, New York Central, and New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroads), the Erie Lackawanna Railway Co., the Reading Co., the Lehigh Valley Railroad Co., the Central Railroad Co. of New Jersey, and the Lehigh & Hudson River Railway Co.) were transferred to Conrail at condemnation value on April 1, 1976. The resulting Conrail system, covering about 20,000 route-miles, received over $ 2 billion in government advances for capital improvements. Most of Conrail's lines, as well as its Philadelphia headquarters, were inherited from Penn Central. Despite the infusion of government money, Conrail inherited many of the structural problems of the old bankrupt railroads and remained unprofitable until the Staggers Act of 1983 deregulated railroad rates. The Reagan Administration then began a campaign to return Conrail to the private sector by means of a sale to the Norfolk Southern Corp., only to back down after over two years of political pressure and counteroffers. Conrail's stock instead was sold at what was then a record IPO on March 25, 1987, for a total of $1.6 billion. On July 1, 1993, a new holding company, Conrail, Inc., was incorporated, and Consolidate Rail Corporation became an operating subsidiary. During the mid-1990s boom, pressure for rail mergers intensified, and on October 15, 1996, Conrail, Inc. announced plans to merge into CSX Corporation, which would have left only two major rail systems east of the Mississippi. The other system, Norfolk Southern, would have been dwarfed by the combined CSX- Conrail, and a bidding war ensued that drove the price of Conrail to absurd heights. On March 7, 1997, CSX and Norfolk Southern signed an agreement to divide Conrail between them for a total purchase price of $10.3 billion. Consolidated Rail Corporation remains as a joint subsidiary and the owner of certain terminal trackage that has to be shared by Norfolk Southern and CSX. ^ Return to Table of Contents Scope and Content The Conrail photograph collection consists of a large number of images from its company files, but the majority of the material comes from its predecessor companies: Pennsylvania Railroad and Penn Central Transportation Company. These items are predominantly composed of photographs, negatives, transparencies, lantern slides, films; there is one bound report about the Alfred E. Perlman Yard in Selkirk, New York regarding improvements (1966). In addition, there are images of Penn Central, Conrail, Amtrak, Metroliner trains, turbotrains, and commuter trains; passenger trains such as the Airway Limited, Congressional Limited, Manhattan Limited, Merchants Limited, among others; - Page 4- Conrail photographs 1993.231 miscellaneous traffic carried on trains (automobiles, coal, mobile homes, perishables, etc.); bridges including the Rockville Bridge, tunnels, and towers; boxcars, including the one millionth freight car built by Pullman Standard in 1979, business cars, cattle cars, clearance cars,"Dewitt Clinton" (train), flat cars, gondolas, "Manhattan Transfer" (train), a streetcar/trolley built by Boeing Vertol; Paoli (Pa.) station; two reproduction images of early railroad stations in New York City (Tyron Row, Chambers Street, Grand Central Depot No. 1); one floor plan of the Union Station Building (Cleveland); a press release with photos from the Steam Locomotive Corporation of America (1980); public relations items such as stills from motion pictures "Broadway Limited" (1941) and "From the Terrace" (1959); photos of calendar art and PRR posters by Grif Teller and N.C. Wyeth; the construction of a model train exhibit at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, 1950s; several folders of illustrations from Conrail's Inside Track company magazine (1980s); grain, coal, ore piers and terminals in a number of locations (Ill., Md., N.J., Ohio, Pa.); railroad repair shops and yards in Conn., Ill., Ind., Md., N.J., N.Y., Ohio, Pa.); employees (office workers, police, cooks, engine and train crews, shop workers); Conveyance Day, April 1, 1976; a lantern slide show which was presented at the Pennsylvania Railroad stockholders meeting in 1964; and interiors of the 32nd Street Office Building, Philadelphia. There are a number of 35mm transparencies including the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio. ^ Return to Table of Contents Administrative Information Publication Statement Audiovisual Collections PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library Access Restrictions This collection is open for research. Litigators may not view the collection without approval. Access to view lantern slides is at the discretion of the conservator. Please inquire in advance of your
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