Recently how many fallen flag cars or locomotives have you seen on passing trains in the last few weeks? The other day on the NS Harrisburg line I saw a string of Soo Locos pulling a load of Conrail coal, Southern boxcarsw, and a few NW cars.
theres a penncentral grain hopper plus a frisco coal hopper in the defiance yard now.
stay safe
Joe
I have seen several fallen flag cars including DT&I autoboxes and gonds, Erie Lackawana open hoppers, RDG open hoppers, WP boxcars, L&N covered hopper, Algoma Centreal gondolas and Northern Alberta Railways boxcars.
Caught the last DRGW SD40T-2 on Wednesday, the 5401, on its trip back to the U.S. from a 3-month stay in Canada
These things seem to happen in waves. Just lately I’ve seen a Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern boxcar (looked really old), a Lehigh Valley covered hopper (a Conrail repaint-job had faded), a number of DT&I hi-cube cars (still quite a few of these in service) and a few of the Erie-Lackawanna hoppers mentioned previously…
Every once in a while, maybe an MP car out here in CA. I wish I would see more stuff like DTI. Seems like they are getting fewer and fewer though.
Dave
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Just yesterday, I saw a Southern boxcar in the Melville, Sask. CN yards, complete with “Southern Serves The South” and “Giving The Green Light To Innovation” slogans. Also this year, in the same yard, I saw a LV covered hopper that fits the description of the one Carlton Vickers saw. I’ve also seen EL covered hoppers with the over-painting fadng off. On CN, I’ve seen some Lake Eire, Franklin & Clarion open hoppers. I also see many covered hoppers of Soo Line, IC, MILW, C&NW and SCL/L&N, but those aren’t rare sightings around here. WC and BC Rail are fallen flags, but they’ve only been merged into CN recently, so again, those are common sightings. A real treat for me is having a boxcar still wearing CP’s old script lettering sitting on a siding in town. Not a fallen flag road, but a long-defunct paint scheme, so it should still count as a fallent flag.
I used to see quite a few of these LEF&C hoppers around here in the 1980s and early 90s, frequently in whole trains…
Last Sunday, I caught a southbound coal train on CSX’s River Line with two Frisco hoppers mixed in with an otherwise solid set of CSX and Conrail cars
There are always a few old Great Northern and Northern Pacific boxcars in Bruster Washington near the apple storage buildings.
Funny how there are actually 3 SD40T-2 left in Grande garb. 5401 is actually in Illinois as I write this. 10 GP40-2 and 1 SD50 left as well.
Josh