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- From: elw4@po.CWRU.Edu (Evan L. Werkema)
- Newsgroups: rec.railroad
- Subject: Re: Sante Fe paint schemes
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 23:31:14 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: elw4@po.CWRU.Edu (Evan L. Werkema)
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- In a previous article, caer@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Charlie Figura) says:
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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.
- >
- >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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- This scheme, commonly called the "blue bonnet," was only applied to a few
- engines. There was a list somewhere, but I don't have it with me. It was,
- as you say, pretty much just a substitution of blue for red. It was
- applied to about half-a-dozen F7 or F3A's and B's after the creation of
- Amtrak, and was one of several "freight schemes" the Santa Fe painted the
- former passenger F's when they were transferred to freight duties. Another
- version, using yellow in place of red was applied to many more units,
- including 347C & B, the last surviving Santa Fe F's. The intent was probably
- a quick change of appearance while saving on paint by leaving the silver/black
- are alone, or to avoid having to paint the stainless steel panels on the
- sides. 347B even retained it's chief's head emblem on its stainless steel
- side panels when the red/yellow/black stripe along the bottom was replaced
- with a simple yellow stripe.
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- I'd guess the first "blue bonnets" started showing up in 1971 or '72 and were
- gone by 1974 or '75 as Cleburne shops chewed up F's and spit out CF7's.
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