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What fallen flags have you seen lately on freight trains.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, July 8, 2004 11:19 PM
I see a lot of BN, ATSF, box cars, BN, NP, GN, wood chip cars, and BN, ATSF, and SLSF
grain hoppers. Also ATSF war bonnett and yellow & blue loco's and BN Cascade green
loco's and once in a while, a BN caboose going by the house here in Sagle Idaho.
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Posted by fuzzybroken on Sunday, July 4, 2004 2:08 PM
I caught a train in the Menomonee River valley (Milwaukee, WI) last week, headed by a SOO SD60 and CSXT SD40-2, followed by a whole string of old open-top hoppers. Saw C&NW, MP with a C&EI logo, some old heavily-patched MILW cars, BN, Rio Grande, some ex-WP... really neat!

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 4, 2004 2:03 PM
About mid June I saw a pair of Seaboard 50' Boxcars over at Rodney
Terminal which is part of the port of Saint John.my brother and I saw such
cars in the seventys..see Milwaukee road and illnois central covered
hoppers in the storage yard near my home..never know what you will
see..

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Posted by ozzy01 on Sunday, July 4, 2004 2:02 PM
To add a few , CNW and MP covered hoppers. A few ex Frisco (SLSF) coal hoppers lettered for a lessor. Ravenna , Ky. yard is CSX , ex L&N.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, July 4, 2004 2:00 PM
I saw an SSW GP60 and SP SD40M-2 last night.
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Posted by ozzy01 on Sunday, July 4, 2004 1:48 PM
I've seen NW and CR hoppers on the KUCX (Kentucky Utilities) coal trains at the Ravenna ,Ky. yard. Also , former Reading hoppers in Ravenna yard in the past few months. A few former CR locos show up time to time.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 3, 2004 5:49 PM
Great red and white paint scheme SOO Line diesel. WHOOOOOOOOO-WWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE that's a good lookin' engine!!!!!!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 3, 2004 10:58 AM
Soo Line,CNW, Milwaukee Road, Denver & Rio Grande, Cotton Belt, Southern, Rock Island . Mostly are grain hoppers & boxcars.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 2, 2004 4:07 PM
About three years ago, I saw a Toronto Hamilton & Buffalo gondola in a UP freight train going through Salt Lake City.
Other fallen flags seen:
Reading (coal hopper)
Clinchfield (coal hopper again)
N&W (hy cube boxcar with old style logo from the 1960s)
Rock Island (speed lettering on covered hoppers and a box car or two (all had CNW reporting marks)
EL (gondola, I think)
Northern Pacific (box car)
Milwaukee Road (box car, with MILW reporting marks)
Western Pacific (covered hopper with WP marks)
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Posted by garr on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 7:27 PM
Saw BN or ex BN 7149 today SB in Marietta, Ga on CSX. This was one of two units(SD40-2s modified with flared radiators, a special paint job, and a fuel tender between them) converted to burn, I beleive LPG. The unit still has the flared radiators and special paint job.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 28, 2004 9:08 PM
so...recently i saw a lot of St. Mary's line stamped ATW...does this qualify as a fallen flag??
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 27, 2004 5:24 PM
ahhh i see...the colors...hence..fallen flags..thank you very much
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 27, 2004 5:09 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by RollonDowntheLine

ahh..so in other words cars that are restamped??


Cars wearing the colors of Railraods that don't exist anymore, because the biggies gobbled them up.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 27, 2004 4:30 PM
ahh..so in other words cars that are restamped??
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 27, 2004 4:26 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by RollonDowntheLine

pardon me for being nubile but ...what exactly are fallen flag cars?


"Old" RR's that have been sucked up by the biggies, therefore no longer around
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 27, 2004 4:23 PM
pardon me for being nubile but ...what exactly are fallen flag cars?
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Posted by espeefoamer on Sunday, June 27, 2004 3:14 PM
A few days ago,I saw a Burlington Northern boxcar with the large BN logo on the side.This car was 99% freeof graffiti.I have also seen several Southern Railway cars recently.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 27, 2004 2:51 PM
Thursday afternoon i saw a CNW "employee owned" boxcar in Lyons PA ad the Deka siding.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 26, 2004 10:56 PM
CNW grain hoppers
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 26, 2004 10:52 PM
Saw an ancient "Western Pacific" box car on a NS mixed freight tonight
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Posted by bnsfkline on Saturday, June 26, 2004 10:01 PM
SP,CNW,CR and soon, CSX
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Posted by JoeKoh on Saturday, June 26, 2004 9:55 PM
CNW hoppers with AOK reporting marks.also rock boxcars
stay safe
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 26, 2004 9:31 PM
[8D] I saw a Denver & Rio Grande covered hopper in Chattanooga, TN on June 19, 2004. Was a rare site!
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Posted by athelney on Monday, June 21, 2004 8:14 PM
Saw D&H grain hopper this afternoon at Sapperton interchange near Vancouver BC
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Posted by fuzzybroken on Monday, June 21, 2004 1:40 PM
I enjoy watching the CN mainline (former WC) in Duplainville and Waukesha, Wisconsin. They runs lots and lots of their fallen flags on their freight trains. Lately I have seen:
Chicago Central
Illinois Central ("Mainline" or split-rail logo)
Illinois Central Gulf
Illinois Central ("Death Star")
Wisconsin Central
Green Bay & Western
Northern Alberta Railway (merged in early 1980s!!!)
Grand Trunk Western
Detroit & Toledo Shore Line!!!
I haven't seen any Central Vermont or Duluth Winnipeg & Pacific lately, but they're out there...

Other fallen flags:
Mid-South
plenty of Milwaukee Road and Soo Line
Chicago and North Western hoppers relettered to GCCX
Conrail renumbered to CSXT
Spencerville & Elgin relettered NOKL! (Is that a fallen flag?)

I have a bunch of these fallen flag pictures on a new web page:
http://www.geocities.com/fuzzybroken/RR2.html

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Posted by joseph2 on Sunday, June 20, 2004 10:25 PM
Have seen Richmond,Fredericksburg & Potomac plus a Milwaukee covered hopper at work.Some CSX covered hoppers still have a high mounted brake wheel and were built in 1966. Joe G.
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Posted by cstaats on Saturday, June 19, 2004 11:33 PM
Saw a D&H in the old Northern Pacifics Auburn Yard
There were several GT, SP and Conrail Auto Racks at the UP Auto facility. I even saw a Chessie box car on the UP local too.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 19, 2004 8:37 AM
In the last 6 months I've seen
PC in Salamanca
EL in hornell and corning
Reading (somewhere)
CNW in Corning
NW in Corning
Southern in Corning
ATSF in Corning, and Lyons NY

and those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
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Posted by JoeKoh on Thursday, June 17, 2004 5:46 PM
A missouri pacific boxcar in our warehouse to be loaded and a sp engine behind a up on a empty powder river train going back west.
stay safe
Joe

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