What Finally Happened to the "Falcon" Name?

[jeffhergert]

The Falcon name may be gone, but along the exCNW main the crews still refer to the hot intermodals (Z trains) has "Birds."

Jeff

[rcdrye]

Chicago and North Western Historical Society published an article about the Falcon Service in the spring 2002 issue that probably has what you're looking for.  From what I remember UP stopped using the name soon after the C&NW merger, though the service itself continued to operate unchanged for some time.

www.cnwhs.org/nwldb.pl?command=issuedetails&issue=Spring&year=2002

[overall]

There was a story in the "Trains of the Seventies" issue about one of the first hot intermodal trains in the nation. It was called the "Falcon" and run by C&NW. C&NW was later merged into UP. My question is "When did the C&NW/UP drop the Falcon name?"