Fallen Flag Freighf Car Friday
While I am not a modeler, I do have an appreciation for older cars featuring “fallen flag” schemes and logos. With each passing year these cars get ever more rare as they are repainted or simply age out and are retired. While most are battered, faded, and covered in graffiti they are still a treat to see harkening back to an earlier era when the railroad scene was far less homogenous and much more diverse and interesting.
CNW 520062 is a 55 ft 10 in long Plate F boxcar built by the venerable but now closed Trenton Works in Nova Scotia in 1995. Part of a 100 unit order primarily for paper service they were among the very last freight cars delivered new to the Chicago and Northwestern Railway in 1995 only months before the erstwhile granger was absorbed by the expanding Union Pacific. But a quarter century later a few live on, still proudly dressed in the corporate colors and adorned with the famous ball and bar logo.
The big green and yellow car is entrained on CSXT M427 (Rigby Yard to Selkirk manifest) hustling west on CSXT's Boston Sub mainline, the former Boston and Albany Railroad, approaching the water plant crossing at about MP QB89.8.
Wilbraham, Massachusetts
Friday October 11, 2024
Fallen Flag Freighf Car Friday
While I am not a modeler, I do have an appreciation for older cars featuring “fallen flag” schemes and logos. With each passing year these cars get ever more rare as they are repainted or simply age out and are retired. While most are battered, faded, and covered in graffiti they are still a treat to see harkening back to an earlier era when the railroad scene was far less homogenous and much more diverse and interesting.
CNW 520062 is a 55 ft 10 in long Plate F boxcar built by the venerable but now closed Trenton Works in Nova Scotia in 1995. Part of a 100 unit order primarily for paper service they were among the very last freight cars delivered new to the Chicago and Northwestern Railway in 1995 only months before the erstwhile granger was absorbed by the expanding Union Pacific. But a quarter century later a few live on, still proudly dressed in the corporate colors and adorned with the famous ball and bar logo.
The big green and yellow car is entrained on CSXT M427 (Rigby Yard to Selkirk manifest) hustling west on CSXT's Boston Sub mainline, the former Boston and Albany Railroad, approaching the water plant crossing at about MP QB89.8.
Wilbraham, Massachusetts
Friday October 11, 2024