Bob, I would have to take the SPSF over the Pumkin...there is just somethiong not right about the color combo there! John
Ref the yellow warbonnet: As far as I can tell, the "yellowbonnet" scheme was used post-Amtrak on the passenger units that were leased out to pull Amtrak trains. Several passenger F's were painted in it (with several variations) and some dual service units were painted in "bluebonnet", a sort of blue/silver warbonnet scheme as well. I guess it was kind of a way to get the then new blue & yellow warbonnet scheme onto the passenger power whilst retaining the silver that helps make the passenger train look good! Some of the freight F's did get the full blue and yellow warbonnet scheme, but it never particularly suited them IMO HTH
Of the two "Pumpkin" schemes, I like the first one- the second looks like it was also designed by Tyco. And have you ever seen a faded pumpkin? One came thru GJ this morning on an eastbound BNSF feight. Looks hideous! I'd take the first GN-inspired paint job any day! And I still like the blue & yellow warbonnet on the freight diesels (and the red/silver on the passenger engines)
Actually, there were only 3 "300 class" locos painted in the yellowbonnet scheme, 2 A units and 1 B unit. Only the "300 class" was leased to Amtrak. The rest of them kept the red warbonnet. When the "325 class" was assigned to freight only duties in 1971, they were initially to be repainted into the bluebonnet scheme. Only 7 A units and a few B units were painted like this before it was decided to go with the yellowbonnet for these, too. That decision may have had something to do with the adaptation of the yellow and blue warbonnet. Of course, the Santa Fe was busy rebuilding the F7's into CF7's at this time. Dwight
Dwight, you're right.....(DOH! didn't mean that to rhyme! ) I hadn't twigged when I was looking at the pics in the book last night that most of the yellowbonnets pictured were the dual service "325" class. It does say in there though that the yellowbonnet was used for the Amtrak lease fleet though? There are 6 different A's & 2 B's pictured in the scheme, but only one A is a 300 class machine. For the record there's A units 304, 326, 330, 341, 344, 347C and B units 348A and 345B, and presumably that's not all the units so painted?
Martyn, Check out the Santa Fe F Unit Site. Click on "'bonnets." It lists the yellow- and bluebonnets. Unfortunately, not all the picture links work. Dwight
[[/qb][/QUOTE]Of the two "Pumpkin" schemes, I like the first one- the second looks like it was also designed by Tyco. And have you ever seen a faded pumpkin? One came thru GJ this morning on an eastbound BNSF feight. Looks hideous! I'd take the first GN-inspired paint job any day! I saw the same faded pumpkin unit up there around Christmas...awful! Frankly, BN could have made a very powerful statement if they had kept the red/silver and simply labled the engines BNSF. No imagination!! John
Hallo! I have see a photo of PA-1 ATSF in goldbonnet livery. It is the painted scheme that in previous mex has been called yellow bonnet or draft of an other type? In this last case which locomotives have had painted it? Thank's in advance!
For me, the only other warbonnet to love besides the red and silver, were the Avon blue and silver ex ATSF D&H PA's!
Boy I can close my eyes and picture the Super Chief tooling through the desert of the southwest, what a sight. to bad they had to go.
