Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway

FreightWaves Classics/Fallen Flags: AC&Y served Ohio industries

One of the AC&Y's last steam-powered locomotives leads a train. (Photo: Willis McCaleb/ Akron Canton & Youngstown Railroad Historical Society)

There are many people interested in former transportation companies, whether they were trucking companies, railroads, airlines or ocean lines. These companies are called “fallen flags,” and the term describes companies whose corporate names have been dissolved through merger, bankruptcy or liquidation.

Today’s FreightWaves Classics profiles another fallen flag – the Akron, Canton and Youngstown Railroad (reporting mark AC&Y). The AC&Y was a small Class I railroad that was founded in 1907....

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classicsfallen-flags-acy-served-ohio-industries

FreightWaves Classics/Fallen Flags: The Alphabet Route offered shippers an alternative to the Big 4

A P&WV hopper with The Alphabet Route markings. (Photo: thepvwhiline.com)

There are many people interested in former transportation companies, whether they were trucking companies, railroads, airlines or ocean lines. They are called “fallen flags,” and the term describes those companies whose corporate names have been dissolved through merger, bankruptcy or liquidation.

The Alphabet Route was not actually an operating railroad; it was a coalition of railroads that worked together to connect the Midwest and the Northeast via their combined rail lines. The Alphabet...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/freightwaves-classicsfallen-flags-the-alphabet-route-offered-shippers-an-alternative-to-the-big-4