American flag decals on Conrail locomotives

I just noticed, in pictures, that locomotives in the conrail quality paint have US Flags in the cabs. Does anyone know if this was a standard thing. Also when did Conrail start putting them on?

That was not standard,the CSX units we used to get had the flags.........

so only conrail unit taken by CSX would have them?

I worked for Conrail in the 90's,mostly as a road conductor. We used to get the CSX power out of Allentown and on the other end at Phila,CP Belmont or CP River , Park Jct. I remember the CSX units had the small flag decals on the side of the cab, also the control stands on CSX units had decals about saving fuel by notching back. Our CR units had none of those decals. I would think the CR units that went to CSX had them applied after 1999.

CSX 8817 is a good example of the big "Flag" decalling:
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=1202378

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPi ... id=1383776

From what I remember this was NOT on road power during the CR era.

Bri

Nice pics,W-1. Those were NOT on the units under Conrail,and wow, they are big decals.

The big flags were added to the loco's assigned to Conrail Shared Assets in North Jersey after 9-11-01.

I photographed an ex-Conrail GP15-1 with the flag a few years ago:



at the time of the photo the unit was LTEX 1443, ex NS 1443, nee CR 1681.

Scot

I don't think had the flags. I think they were added after 9/11.