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drgwk37

April 14, 2018 11:36AM

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Charlie Mutschler Wrote:
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> I believe the rectangular box mounted on the
> smokeboxes of some locomotives were for flags. A
> place to store the white or green flags for use to
> show the class of train.
>
> CVM
> -30-

That is correct, those were installed to store an extra set of flags, it is a flag box. All the big K's had them installed, K-28's on up.

William
aka drgwk37

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What’s the rectangular box...	DakotaRed	April 14, 2018 10:36AM
Re: What’s the rectangular box...	Dave Peterson	April 14, 2018 10:43AM
Re: What’s the rectangular box...	DakotaRed	April 14, 2018 10:52AM
Re: What’s the rectangular box...	bcp	April 14, 2018 10:57AM
Re: What’s the rectangular box...	Charlie Mutschler	April 14, 2018 11:02AM
Re: What’s the rectangular box...	george pearce	April 14, 2018 11:16AM
Re: What’s the rectangular box...	drgwk37	April 14, 2018 11:36AM
Re: What’s the rectangular box...	Charlie Mutschler	April 14, 2018 01:08PM
Re: What’s the rectangular box...	DakotaRed	April 14, 2018 11:34AM
Re: Green-boilered 'unit' . . .	Johnson Barr	April 14, 2018 12:16PM
Re: Green-boilered 'unit' . . .	Steve Forney	April 14, 2018 02:24PM
Re: Green-boilered 'unit' . . .	DakotaRed	April 14, 2018 05:39PM
Re: Green-boilered 'unit' . . .	Johnson Barr	April 14, 2018 07:35PM

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