A pirate flag, the old skull and crossbones.
It has to be American.
I picked Pirate…'cuz.
I assume that, like most, if not all, UP freights, she was running extra. (An extra train, not on the usual schedule, will carry white flags by day and display white classification lights at night.)
White. Ditto to what Tom said.
I’m sure they wouldn’t have bothered to put American flags on the last run of what definitely wasn’t the biggest loco…so I’ll say white as well.
You guys are all on the wrong track. THE Challenger Passenger Train, not A Challenger locomotive. The last run of the Challenger was 1971 behind 3 E8 locomotives as I recall.
I have no idea what color the flags were. I would guess that at that time it normally ran with no flags’ so I’ll guess the Jolly Roger.
White flags were used, just like they do here in the NE
No, no, Texas Zepher I mean the Challenger on the run it made last September.
Well you need to make your questions more clear, so you mean UP 3985? That is only one of 105 locomotives of that class that the UP owned, each of which had a “last run”. Further it has made more runs since then, and will make more in the future so it has not made a “last run”.
Change my vote to green. It was probably running as a second section of something already on the schedule.
Well wouldn’t it have been nice for clarity’s sake if you’d mentioned that you were talking about 1 engine (out of a bunch in 2 classes) instead of the all coach train of the same name? I assumed the train was under discussion and for the last run of a TRAIN the Jolly Roger would have a suitably funereal aspect.
I will try to be more clear in the future. Yes the pirate flag, as for the other version of the question I have no clue and will leave that to better historians than myself.
Any Idea why?