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Owner: Conrail
Model:EMD F7ABuilt As:NYC 1648 (F7A)
Serial Number:7154Order No:E1041
Frame Number:E1041-A2Built:7/1949
Notes:Ex-PC, Exx-NYC 1648
Other locos with this serial:  CR 1648(F7A) PC 1648(F7A) CR 1792(F7A)
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CR 1648 and CR 1850
Title:  CR 1648 and CR 1850
Description:  Post card I bought at an antique store. On back of card: Conrail 1648 The only F-unit to be painted in Conrail blue, 1648 is on its first run in this color on a transfer run westbound out of Collinwood Yard July 26, 1976. The unit was built in July of 1949. EMD builder’s number 7154, for the New York Central. Photo by Jim Semon.
Photo Date:  7/26/1976  Upload Date: 7/25/2016 11:02:19 PM
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Author:  Jamie Smith
Categories:  Roster,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 1648(F7A) CR 1850(F7A)
Views:  1045   Comments: 1
CR 1648
Title:  CR 1648
Description:  CR 1648 was the only freight F-unit to wear Conrail blue. It never received Conrail lettering or logos, though. John C. Benson photo, from the Ralph L. Phillips collection of the Bay State Model Railroad Museum.
Photo Date:  3/9/1977  Upload Date: 11/6/2021 9:13:23 PM
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Author:  John C. Benson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 1648(F7A)
Views:  316   Comments: 0
CR 1648
Title:  CR 1648
Description:  Conrail 1648 (ex-PC/nee-NYC 1648) was the only F-unit to receive Conrail blue paint. She was later renumbered CR 1792 to avoid conflicting with an order of GP15-1s, and was retired 1/79. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  5/1/1977  Upload Date: 6/12/2009 11:29:20 AM
Location:  Northfield, OH
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 1648(F7A)
Views:  1966   Comments: 0
CR 1648
Title:  CR 1648
Description:  Conrails only blue F-unit (Date approximate)
Photo Date:  7/7/1977  Upload Date: 5/15/2013 10:35:56 AM
Location:  Akron, OH
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 1648(F7A)
Views:  1254   Comments: 6
Talk about crazy lashups!
Title:  Talk about crazy lashups!
Description:  How's this for a lashup? 12 locomotives total: 2x C636, 3x C630, 2x C628, 1x SD45, and 4x F7A! Additionally, one of the F7As is the only freight F-unit known to have received Conrail blue, no. 1648. James P. Marcus photo, from the Ralph L. Phillips collection of the Bay State Model Railroad Museum.
Photo Date:  8/12/1977  Upload Date: 1/29/2023 8:49:32 PM
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Author:  James P. Marcus
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 6792(C636) CR 6778(C630) CR 6754(C630) CR 6766(C630) CR 6743(C628) CR 1648(F7A)
Views:  311   Comments: 0
Overhead view of a doozy of a dozen
Title:  Overhead view of a doozy of a dozen
Description:  Here's an overhead shot of the lashup from http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5913165. 2x C636, 3x C630, 2x C628, 1x SD45, and 4x F7A, including the one blue freight F-unit, no. 1648. James P. Marcus photo, from the Ralph L. Phillips collection of the Bay State Model Railroad Museum.
Photo Date:  8/12/1977  Upload Date: 1/29/2023 9:09:30 PM
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Author:  James P. Marcus
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6792(C636) CR 6778(C630) CR 6754(C630) CR 6766(C630) CR 6743(C628) CR 1648(F7A) PC 7331(GP9)
Views:  382   Comments: 0
Odd One Out
Title:  Odd One Out
Description:  Conrail's sole blue F-Unit rolls through Euclid, OH. Photographer unknown
Photo Date:  8/22/1977  Upload Date: 10/31/2017 5:04:44 PM
Location:  Euclid, OH
Author: 
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 1648(F7A) CR 1826(F7A) CR 1742(F7A)
Views:  531   Comments: 0
CR 1648
Title:  CR 1648
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/1/1978  Upload Date: 7/7/2022 11:08:21 PM
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Author:  Bill Padgett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 1648(F7A)
Views:  205   Comments: 0
Conrail #1648
Title:  Conrail #1648
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/15/1978  Upload Date: 10/24/2019 5:26:05 PM
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Author:  Unknown
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 1648(F7A)
Views:  447   Comments: 1


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