Preamble Express Marker Flags

The locomotives of the Preamble Express (the train that scouted the route of the AFT) often carried special marker flags denoting the train as a special movement, using whatever color the host railroad observed.

This set of green flags was carried on the front of the 951 locomotive from New Orleans to Birmingham on the Southern Railway October 7, 1974.

John Finnin collection.

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