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I would be very interested in a picture of the flag bracket for comparison.
Thank you
Larry Brown
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 1:11 PM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>
wrote:

> Hon.  Larenzo von Braun:
>
>
> That is a flag bracket.  Can send you photo of one "in captivity" should
> you so desire.
>
>
> Why were flag holders provided on engines...?  Same reason classification
> lights were provided on the front of engines.  Classification Signals were
> displayed by flags "by day," and by the classification lamps "by night."
>
>
> Far too long for me to explain here.  But it goes back to the day when
> trains were operated by Time Table schedule, Train Order, right, class and
> direction.  We were still displaying "Train Signals" (i.e. classification
> signals) when I worked on the Punkin Vine in the 1960s.
>
>
> To get a feel for it, read Rules 19 thru 25 in any Rule Book of the Good
> Old Days, e.g. the N&W red Rule Book of the early 1950s.  Such things are
> all gone from today's Garbage-Grade "Railroading."
>
>
> Railroads stopped ordering flag brackets and classification lights on
> engines sometime in the 1970s-1980s, although someone will no doubt carp
> about those dates.
>
>
>                     -- abram burnett
>
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