CR (historical)

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CR (historical) was the stock ticker symbol used to represent Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), a major U.S. freight railroad company formed from bankrupt Northeastern railroads in the 1970s.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf stock ticker symbol
associatedWith Staggers Rail Act of 1980
linked to: Staggers Rail Act

U.S. railroad deregulation era
country United States
industryOfUnderlyingCompany freight rail transportation
refersTo Conrail
Consolidated Rail Corporation
status historical ticker symbol (no longer active)
tickerFor Conrail common stock
underlyingCompanyAbbreviation CR
underlyingCompanyAcquisition joint acquisition by CSX Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation
underlyingCompanyAcquisitionYear 1999
underlyingCompanyAlsoProvided commuter rail operations (until transferred to public agencies)
underlyingCompanyCreatedBy United States federal government
underlyingCompanyFormationContext bankruptcy of multiple Northeastern U.S. railroads in the 1970s
underlyingCompanyFormationYear 1976
underlyingCompanyHeadquartersLocation Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
linked to: Philadelphia
underlyingCompanyLegalBasis Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973
underlyingCompanyOwnershipAfter1999 jointly owned by CSX Corporation and Norfolk Southern Corporation
underlyingCompanyParentAfterSplit Conrail Inc.
underlyingCompanyPredecessor Ann Arbor Railroad
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Erie Lackawanna Railway
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Lehigh and Hudson River Railway
Penn Central Transportation Company
Reading Company
underlyingCompanyPrimaryBusiness freight rail service
underlyingCompanyPrivatizationYear 1987
underlyingCompanyReportingMarks CR
underlyingCompanyRoleAfter1999 terminal and shared-assets operator for CSX and Norfolk Southern
underlyingCompanyServiceArea Midwestern United States
Northeastern United States
underlyingCompanySuccessor CSX Transportation
Norfolk Southern Railway
underlyingCompanyType Class I railroad
usedOn New York Stock Exchange

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