The 1980 Staggers Act, which deregulated the railroad industry, proved to be a key factor in bringing Conrail and the old PC assets back to life.

Sixty-eight GG1s saw service with Penn Central's successor, Conrail ; and were used in freight service until Conrail discontinued the use of electric traction in 1980.

However, due to poor track conditions in Indiana, the train was rerouted numerous times, first over various Penn Central / Conrail routings, then ultimately over the former Baltimore and Ohio route via Cottage Grove by 1980.

Conrail management, recognizing the need for more regulatory freedoms to address the economic issues, were among the parties lobbying for what became the Staggers Act of 1980, which significantly loosened the Interstate Commerce Commission's rigid economic control of the rail industry.

The RRRR was absorbed into Conrail in 1980, becoming a branch line of Conrail's system.

Conrail closed its Terminal offices in 1980.

The last train was operated by Conrail in 1980 with three carloads of frozen turkeys.

A few hundred yards above the switch, Conrail continued ripping up the tracks and reached Stockton by January 9, 1980.

Although it is unknown why Conrail left the Bel-Del mainline track above the Flemington Branch switch and quarry track above Lambertville, that has been abandoned since the northern destruction of the Bel-Del in 1980.

Another early commercial model was the six-button Microwriter, designed by Cy Endfield and Chris Rainey, and first sold in 1980.

Zork I was released originally for the TRS-80 in 1980 and eventually sold more than a million copies across several platforms.

Chromium, which had sold for $ 3. 90 a pound in 1980, was down to $ 3. 70 in 1990.

In 1980, this holding was sold to an American art dealer and the Hague Museum.

Originally called the " Magic Cube ", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 via German businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer, and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year.

Hi Infidelity ( 1980 ) contained four US Top 40 hits and is the group's best-selling album, with over ten million copies sold.

In 1978, Harley-Davidson sold its Italian operations to the Castiglioni brothers, founders of the Cagiva motorcycle company, which continued to produce bikes branded " HD Cagiva " until 1980.

Volkswagen sold Beetle sedans in the US until August 1977 ( the Beetle convertible / Cabriolet was sold until January 1980 ) and in Europe until 1985, with private companies continuing to import cars produced in Mexico after 1985.

In 1980, after just a few months, Zingale sold the team to Nationwide Advertising magnate Ted Stepien.

This preceded the development of oral isotretinoin ( sold as Accutane and Roaccutane ) in 1980.

Between 1975 and 1980 the Case Corporation ( now merged into CNH Global ) imported the U-900 model into the United States and sold it through Case tractor dealerships as the MB4 / 94.

Lord Stuart's grandson sold the estate to the Forest Service in 1980 and the Service set out the woodland habitat that exists today.

In the years since 17, 000 to 20, 000 tickets are consistently sold, an increase over the first Parade Ball held in 1980 at the Paddington Town Hall, a BYO event which attracted 700 guests.

In late 2006, a stone church was taken down, for unknown reasons, that was built circa 1830 and served the community until 1980 when the church's contents were sold off.

It was a Gannett Company newspaper from 1980 until 2001 when it was sold to the Journal Register Company.

The Clover Park School District operated KCPQ ( thus the call letters ) until 1980, when the district sold the station to Kelly Broadcasting.

In 1980 the Kemmerer Coal Co. was sold to the Pittsburg & Midway Coal Company, now a subsidiary of the Chevron Corporation.

Soon afterwards, a joint venture was formed with Warner Bros. Records ( which had distributed Geffen since that label was founded in 1980 ; after 10 years under Warner, Geffen was sold to MCA Music Entertainment Group ), thereby ending Sub Pop's status as an entirely independent label.

By the end of the 1970s the gaps between issues were lengthening, and the title was finally sold to Galileo publisher Vincent McCaffrey, who brought out only a single issue in 1980.

In 1997, some 60 % of hogs sold within the U. S. were sold under some form of contract, whereas in 1980 only 5 % of hogs were sold in this manner.

After Keith Duckworth decided he didn't want to be involved with the day-to-day business of running a growing company, he sold out to United Engineering Industries ( UEI ) in 1980, retaining his life presidency and day-to-day technical involvement with Cosworth, and becoming a UEI board director ; UEI was a group of small to medium-sized technology companies which was taken over by Carlton Communications in 1988-Carlton was primarily interested in some of the audio-visual companies in the UEI portfolio and Cosworth was a poor fit with these ; a new buyer for the company in the engineering / automotive sector was sought and the traditional engineering company Vickers plc bought Cosworth in 1990.

Two years later, Def Leppard issued their first greatest hits collection, Vault: Def Leppard Greatest Hits ( 1980 – 1995 ), which reached number 3 in the UK, and sold over 5 million copies in the US.

Relations between the Republic of Vanuatu and Cuba began shortly after the former gained its independence from France and the United Kingdom in 1980, and began establishing its own foreign policy as a newly independent state.

Moreover, spending a total time of five years or more after January 1, 1980 ( to present ), in the above-mentioned countries and / or any country in Europe ( except the former USSR ), also precludes donation.

Work on the mosque was started in 1980, and was intended to be completed for the 60th birthday of the former Moroccan king, Hassan II, in 1989.

* 1980 – John Lennon, an English musician ( former member of The Beatles ), and peace activist, is murdered by Mark David Chapman, a mentally unstable fan, in front of The Dakota apartment building in New York City.

Starting in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, several types of video production equipment were introduced, such as time base correctors ( TBC ) and digital video effects ( DVE ) units ( one of the former being the Thomson-CSF 9100 Digital Video Processor, an internally all-digital full-frame TBC introduced in 1980, and two of the latter being the Ampex ADO, and the Nippon Electric Corporation ( NEC ) DVE ).

Essendon appointed former Richmond player Kevin Sheedy as head coach in October 1980.

In late 1980, the government was overthrown in a relatively bloodless coup led by Prime Minister and former armed forces commander João Bernardo Vieira.

* Patti Palmer ( née Esther Calonico ), a former singer with Ted Fio Rito ; married October 3, 1944, divorced September 1980.

After Tito's death in 1980, tensions between the Yugoslav republics emerged and in 1991 the country disintegrated and went into a series of civil wars and unrest that lasted the rest of the decade and continue to impact most of the former Yugoslav republics to this day.

Martina Hingis ( born 30 September 1980 ) is a Swiss former professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1.

Despite the popularity of Gayoom, those connected to the former President hired ex-SAS mercenaries in 1980 to carry out a coup to oust him.

* 1980 – Mehcad Brooks, American actor and former model

P & G-produced soaps Another World and Guiding Light both went to St. Croix in 1980, the former show culminating a long-running storyline between popular characters Mac, Rachel and Janice, and the latter to serve as an exotic setting for Alan Spaulding and Rita Bauer's torrid affair.

Other approaches exist such as that of Guy Thilmans and his team in 1980, who felt that any archeology from pre-colonial could be attached to that designation or that of Hamady Bocoum, who speaks of " Historical Archaeology " from the 4th century, at least for the former Tekrur.

In 1979 and 1980, former Somoza supporters and ex-members of Somoza's National Guard formed irregular military forces, while the original core of the FSLN began to splinter.

The FDN ’ s ( Fuerza Democrática Nicaragüense, the main opposition group of those armed organizations referred to as ' Contras ') chief of intelligence, Ricardo Lau, had, according to the former Salvadoran intelligence chief Col. Roberto Santivanez, ‘ received payment of $ 120, 000 ’ for organizing the murder of Archbishop Romero of El Salvador in 1980.

* In Helsinki, the former Kampinkatu ( Kamppi Street ) was renamed Urho Kekkosen katu ( Urho Kekkonen Street ) in 1980.

In 1980, the former NSEIT campus on Grand Lake Road was expanded as the institution consolidated at this location.

Three former directors of the Smallpox # Eradication | Global Smallpox Eradication Programme read the news that smallpox had been globally eradicated, 1980

* November 4 – United States presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger and former Governor Ronald Reagan of California defeats incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter, exactly 1 year after the beginning of the Iran hostage crisis.

* James W. Keyes, MBA 1980, Chairman and CEO of Blockbuster Inc., former President and CEO 7-Eleven

Herb Brooks, who coached the 1980 " Miracle on Ice " team, was brought in for the 1992 – 93 season, but when the team yet again was eliminated in the first round, he was fired and replaced with former Montreal Canadiens coach Jacques Lemaire.

A former campus rabbi of Bar-Ilan University, Hess published in the university's student paper in February 1980 an article on " The Genocide Commandment in the Torah ", in which he concluded that:

* Ben Johnson ( American football ) ( born 1980 ), former American football offensive tackle of the National Football League

In 1980, they traded Alex English to the Nuggets in order to reacquire former ABA star George McGinnis.