Locomotive Management Services

Company History: Beginning in 1994, Conrail purchased a total of 60 C40-8W's for their joint locomotive leasing service with General Electric. This service was called Locomotive Management Services, or LMS for short. To make their C40-8W's more compatible in lease service with other railroads' locomotives, the LMS units lacked the Epic electronic air brake system and IFC package normally found on all other Conrail C40-8W's.
The first units, LMS 700-739, arrived in 1994 and were painted Conrail blue with LMS initials. The second order arrived painted in the standard Conrail Quality scheme. Even though these were parts of LMS, these units maintained all of Conrail's markings and were on the roster as CR 740-759. In the summer of 1997, Conrail began moving 740-759 from lease service into their regular fleet, renumbering the units into series CR 6266-6285.

From The Conrail Cyclopedia

Successor/Parent History: The Consolidated Rail Corporation, commonly known as Conrail (reporting mark CR), was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeast U.S. between 1976 and 1999. Conrail is a portmanteau of "consolidated" and "rail" from the name of the company.

The U.S. federal government created Conrail to take over the potentially profitable lines of multiple bankrupt carriers, including the Penn Central Transportation Company and Erie Lackawanna Railway. With the benefit of industry-wide regulatory requirements being reduced (via the 4R Act and the Staggers Act), Conrail began to turn a profit in the 1980s and was turned over to private investors in 1987. The two remaining Class I railroads in the East, CSX Transportation and the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), agreed in 1997 to split the system approximately equally, returning rail freight competition to the Northeast by essentially undoing the 1968 merger of the Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central Railroad that created Penn Central. Following Surface Transportation Board approval, CSX and NS took control in August 1998, and on June 1, 1999, began operating their portions of Conrail.

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