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- From: caer@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Charlie Figura)
- Subject: Sante Fe paint schemes
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:46:29 GMT
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- Allright, yet another question floating around my head...
- Here's one ive been wondering about for a *long* time (like, since
- I was 5?) When I was a kid (5, figure that) I got my first train,
- a Lionel FA2, Sante Fe. The interesting thing was, it was painted
- like the standard Sante Fe silver and red with the gold stripe
- (superchief, i guess its called?) -- except it wasnt red, it was
- blue. Much like the Delaware &... St. Lawrence, mebbe?
- Point is, i NEVER saw such a paint scheme, blue and silver
- sante fe in ANY pictures, *anywhere* else.
- Until last night I saw a Marklin HO F3 ABA set...
- and it was the same blue & silver with the gold stripe sante
- fe. I figured Lionel could be unprototypical :-) but that
- a $520 Marklin *should* be pretty accurate.
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- The question is, what gives? When did Sante Fe (and where)
- use that scheme? I know today their freight uses yellow and
- dark blue, but this is different. anyone? thanks...
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