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I was confused too. I found this: > The term "Fallen Flags" describes those railroads whose corporate names have been dissolved through merger, bankruptcy, or
by quietbritishjim 3y ago
I was confused too. I found this:
> The term "Fallen Flags" describes those railroads whose corporate names have been dissolved through merger, bankruptcy, or liquidation. At one time the United States boasted nearly 140 Class I's.
https://www.american-rails.com/fallen-flags.html https://www.american-rails.com/fallen-flags.html
OK great, but what's a "Class I"?
> In the United States, railroads are designated as Class I, Class II, or Class III, according to size criteria first established by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) in 1911, and now governed by the Surface Transportation Board (STB). The STB's current definition of a Class I railroad was set in 1992, that being any carrier earning annual revenue greater than $250 million. This has since been adjusted for inflation and most recently set to $504,803,294 in 2019.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Class_I_railroads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Class_I_railroads
- samstave 3y ago[flagged]
- 93po 3y agoRandom fact check bc I never know how much GPT hallicinates: "Southern Pacific Railroad (SP): The SP was a prominent railroad company that operated in the western United States from 1865 to 1998." It's actually 1996, not 1998. I checked multiple sources.
- Lammy 3y agoUnion Pacific (the acquiring railroad) has UP1996 in its heritage livery fleet to commemorate this: https://www.up.com/heritage/fleet/commemorative/sp-1996/index.htm https://www.up.com/heritage/fleet/commemorative/sp-1996/inde...
- samstave 3y agoWould you surmize that reading a trailing '8' might be an OCR bug which messes a '6' with an '8'? How does the bot draw in data? does it parse for numbers first? Dates? How does it eval data?
- 93po 3y agoI assumed he was just providing something related and interesting rather than suggesting why it ChatGPT said 1998
- notwhereyouare 3y agowhich doesn't jive with what I'm seeing? Or maybe I still don't understand. https://www.rr-fallenflags.org/amtk/amtk.htm https://www.rr-fallenflags.org/amtk/amtk.htm Amtrak still exists, though, maybe since it's a different logo?