As I was coming homr today from the hospital( new baby girl born monday) I watched a mixed freight rolling thru with 3 BN green grain cars, an ATSF covered hopper. How many and what Fallen Flag cars in original paint or patched do yall see in your area still in revenue service?
Im in Huntington WV and Ive seen in the past week:
BN-3
ATSF-1
Chessie System-many
J.W.
J.W.
Over here in England I see the ex Virgin cross country units running in their old livery. as the franchise has just been taken over so the gradual change to the new livery is happening also on the east coast main line most stock is still in the old GNER livery with the exeption of white instead of red bands
Gav
I see Conrail and NYC gons every day, forgotten forever to always be captive at the steel mill in town. They’re real NYC ones with the NYC circular logo.
Congratulations on the new railfan!!
MKT, Santa Fe, BN, SP, CR, WC, Southern, DRGW and a host of others.
Ahh yes the new one …Thanks Rolleiman
And How in the hole could I have forgotten them conrail coal buckets! Tons of em here!
There’s a fair number of Soo cars, engines and cabooses in the Twin Cities area, even a few Milwaukee MP-15 with the “MILWAUKEE” part kinda painted over in peeling black.
BTW I was born in Minneapolis in 1958, by the time I turned 40 all the railroads that served the Twin Cities when I was born (11 I believe) were gone. Last one to go was Chicago & NorthWestern in the mid-90’s.
[sigh]
Congratulations on the new arrival. Of course not all girls like trains although some do. I’ve got granddaughter who does so there’s hope.
AS for fallen flags, I don’t get to see many since I don’t live close to any of them. However if I go north into Westchester County on Route 95 one can occassionally see Conrail and other trains.
If I go across the Triboro Bridge (which will soon be renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge), I can see long freights with lots of fallen flag cars and occassionally a fallen flag locomotive. Unfortunately you can’t always see th emarkings on cars.
NJ is a great place to see trains or cars. I remember coming home from Jersey City (I taught at Jersey State College) I could see the reefers parked next to the cold storgae warehouse. The tracks were so bad that the refridgerator car looked like it was parked on mud. THat’s was the first time I actually a PFE car in the flesh. That cold starge place is gone now from what folks tell me.
Irv
mopac
I quite often see B&M, MEC, CR, ATSF, BN, NW, SOU, BAR boxcars; B&M, SOO, BN, ATSF, and WC covered hoppers, and some BN intermodal equipment. Some of the one-offs I’ve seen included a Route Rock (Rock Island) boxcar, a Chessie covered hopper, Seaboard System boxcars, and a SP covered hopper.
I could have been seeing things, but I thought the last time I was in Charleston, that I saw a C&O GP-9 with the words Chesapeake and Ohio and the two yellow stripes.
Hansel
Lots of Chessie gons and covered coil steel cars. There was an old Family Lines B 23 that used to roam the rails around here, but I think it’s been sold or scrapped.
in my area i will see ex-Southern Pacific and ex-Rio Grande some are patched others are still in their natural state before the meger and the mine that is not to far from where i live always has empty hopper cars from ATSF,BN,DRGW,SP and conrail, over the last few years BNSF has been moving transfer terminals in the area and each terminal is serviced by a different shortline and august of 2007 a new shortline railroad moved in
Seen trackside.
N&W
SOUTHERN
DT&I-Very rusty.
D&TSL-Detroit &Toledo Shore Line-Covered hoppers.
ATSF
BN
SP
Cotton Belt
Frisco-A old gon.
MP
NYC(CSX)
PRR(NS)
CR
ICG
RDG-A old gon.
Rio Grande
Chessie(CSX)
B&O-still has the large B&O with B&O recording marks.In fair shape
Rock Island-Still in the blue paint with the big “R”…Its sub lettered for a short line.
LEF&C-Sub lettered for a short line.
And 2 granddaddy’s seen last year in Marion(Oh).
Con Rail all the time. Most of the traffic I get to see on the NS(former Reading mainline)is unit coal, intermodal and autoracks. The scrap metal gons are all so rusty who knows whose they are. Box cars are almost always covered in graffiti or fairly current. The local industry in Lebanon recieves only covered hoppers that are plain white(very pale grey?) with reporting marks only. I suppose the days of using rolling stock as a billboard are long gone.
Congratulations on the new addition to your family!
While not in revenue service exactly, Commonwealth Railway in southeastern Viginia uses this old covered hopper as an idler car between its locomotives and the chemical tank cars it hauls.
I took this photo yesterday while railfanning.
I live near the UP Nogales line, just south of Tucson.
I see quite alot of Espee, and some Rio Grande and WP. I’ll try to get pictures…
still some patched conrail units in MD, but still alot of conrail rolling stock, its kinda sad to see a era go by you.
tjsingle
We get a lot of covered hoppers over here on the shore, gotta keep Perdue’s flock fed… I see 'em all. N&W, Family Lines, ex Chessie, ex Conrail… just about all of them are patched for car leasing companies.
Lee
WC, not many WC locomotives running around any more. Only a few Geeps, SW1500s, and 3 SD units. I’m lucky if I get to see one. Lately I have been lucky and caught a few leading. Now it’s getting almost imposable to see a WC leading with the New GEs and EMDs invading the line.
The other Fallen Flags would be MILW, which is the main line through Wausau. I don’t see a lot of MILW stuff unless I go to the DP. SOO ran around here for about 2 years, give or take a few months. I don’t see a lot of that any more around here. CNW ran through Down today, and CN uses that for switching in Wausau. Again, don’t see much CNW, except a few ex CNW hoppers lettered in INRD.
EDIT: Nop, I did catch an Ex SOO gon last weekend.
Now this box car has alot of hertiage. You can see the SOO and LINE fading through the WC paint.
