"FALLEN FLAGS" FRIDAY

Where to start?  Guess with some of the most unusual.

          maybe not a "Fallen Flag", but the end of a really neat train..........

                              the end........   https://www.ringling.com/

          elephants last journey........   https://youtu.be/UKtjguET7UI

briansilvermustang posted:

          maybe not a "Fallen Flag", but the end of a really neat train..........

         

 

                              the end........   https://www.ringling.com/

          elephants last journey........   https://youtu.be/UKtjguET7UI

This was the last RBBB train parked on the spur in Uniondale NY last May.

RBLX is not a fallen flag.........

I love the MA & PA

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I don't know if it qualifies as a fallen flag but this railroad is no longer with us.

Here are some fallen flags spotted on the Free State Junction Railway, the B and  O Museum, and Virginia Museum of Transportation.

PAUL ROMANO posted:

C30-7, You got to love em', L&N did.

They sure did and then some.I recall seeing train after train being pulled by these.In fact for a few years seaboard all but went away.It was L&N for a bit.

Spokane Portland & Seattle

Great Northern

Orient Express through the Tumwater Canyon, west of Wenatchee.  Note the snow shed and the Class 5 rapids.

Pittsburg and Shawmut Railroad (Shawmut Line) was a coal hauling Railroad, western PA.  My father worked as a machinist, Brookville, PA.

Montour another coal hauling railroad, west of Pittsburgh, near the Airport.

SIRT posted:

RBLX is not a fallen flag.........

Maybe a fallen bit of Americana then.

The BAR running as borrowed power on the LIRR in 1975

Thanks for the thread Paul.  Can't wait for Susquehanna Sunday!  

                                                   is it Sunday yet.....

I'm surprised no one's posted this yet (unless I missed it), but I love the Hi-Line. The P&WV is one of my favorite railroads if not the favorite. This picture was taken in '51 at Rook yard in Green Tree, Pa. (currently WE)

And here's a PS-2 I got recently. 

A couple weeks ago, I acquired a few P&WV blueprints from the 20's and 40's. I'll post a few pics when I get home. 

Soo Nut posted:

Fun thread with lots of great photos, both prototype and model.  Thanks for starting it, Paul!!

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

Please, SMTIO!    

mike.caruso posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

Please, SMTIO!    

SMTIO?  What does that mean? I Googled the phrase but nothing turned up for it.

send me this in "O" ?

hobby-go-lucky posted:

p51 posted:

mike.caruso posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

Please, SMTIO!    

SMTIO?  What does that mean? I Googled the phrase but nothing turned up for it.

Someone Make This In O !  

mike.caruso posted:

p51 posted:

mike.caruso posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

Please, SMTIO!    

SMTIO?  What does that mean? I Googled the phrase but nothing turned up for it.

Someone Make This In O !  

Thanks, I never would have figured that out on my own.

Here are some pictures of the B&M/MEC Flying Yankee being restored in Lincoln, New Hampshire.  The train ran from 1935 to 1957.  The State of New Hampshire, its current owner, wanted to open it to the public this year but it is a long way from being visitor ready.

Hi - Fallen Flag Crew on the OGR - Thanks for sharing your photos, very cool.

This week I have the: Galloping Goose Diesel With Proto-Sound 3.0 - Rio Grande Southern, Cab No. 7 / MTH RailKing / Item No. 30-20160-1 / Shot with an iPhone 7 Plus • Stills & Video on my layout, yesterday

Checkout the Fallen Flag sounds in this video, "Short".

Like the doodlebugs before them and the RDC (Rail Diesel Car) after them, the Rio Grande Southern's Galloping Geese were a cheap way to provide passenger service. Cobbled together in the early 1930s by a railroad on the verge of bankruptcy, the Geese replaced steam-powered passenger trains and enabled the RGS to provide passenger and tourist service in the Colorado Rockies until it closed in 1952.

The poor condition of RGS track gave the Motors, as they were officially called, the galloping gait that prompted their nickname. Goose No. 7, the last Goose built, was constructed in 1936 with a 1926 Pierce-Arrow body for passengers, a Ford V-8 engine, and a homebuilt box in the back for mail and express freight. Like Geese 3, 4, and 5, after World War II her freight body was converted to provide additional tourist seating. No 7 continued in tourist work until the RGS ceased operations.

She survives today in operational condition at the Colorado Railroad Museum.

Fallen Flag: 1952   Click here for map & more information.

Gary: Have a great weekend.