This issue of our magazine is completely dedicated to prototype study and scale modeling of Santa Fe's covered wagons-FT's to F-9:'s which served the railroad for over forty years in freight and passenger service.
Author Lee Berglund is certainly no stranger to our readers. For almost twenty years he has shared his modeling work and lent his extensive prototype diesel locomotive knouwledge to various and sundry publications (including the Santa Fe Modeler). Combining his resources with the newest commercial models available, Lee 's essay, along with the original EMD styling diagrams (inserted in member's copies), provides Santa Fe modelers as near to a complete resource guide to F-unit modeIing as imaginable.
-Jay Miller
Extra 123 West passes the depot at Waterline on David Barrow's Cat Mountain and Santa Fe in Austin, Texas. A hallmark brass import, the FT sports what is believed to be the first repainting scheme of the units. Note how the red separating stripes stops at the cab steps and the door.
-Andy Sperandeo
In a rare close-up the nose of FT-A 172L is displayed at Temple, Texas in 1951. The blue and gold 'Santa Fe' emblem was applied to a metal badge which was then attached to the nose door of the FT's by the builder. Many 200 class F-7's also carried this type of badge when first delivered. Note also the creamy yellow paint.
-K. B. King
FTA-B-A set 412LAC with 412L on the point leads an eastbound freight out of the yards at Emporia on September 21, 1958. A few FT's retained their 400 series numbers to the end. Contrast this latter-day "chrome yellow" paint with the one above.
-W. A. Gibson, SR.
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