SANTA FE MODELER

Volume 14 Number 3
Third Quarter, 1991

Colorful Covered Wagons...

Twenty-two year old passenger F-7A 38C never looked better as she paused at Emporia with the eastbound Grand Canyon on a sunny March 13, 1971-just a few weeks to Amtrak.
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F-3A's 16 though 21 wore a long warbonnet that was the same size used on the early E-units. Later passenger F's wore a shortened version more proportioned to their carbodies. 16C was at Newton in 1972.
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271C was the only 200 class F-7A wear the yellow warbonnet paint. It was destroyed in a headon collision in Texas about a year after this photo was made at Emporia in November 1972.
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F-7A 206C at Emporia in February 1974 illustrates the appearance of 200 class units 202 through 258 in their final years of service. Ten months later, 206C was reborn as CF-7 2489.
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304L and 315L were the only two 300 class passenger units to recieve the yellow warbonnet scheme while in Amtrak service. 315L sits at Fort Worth with Amtrak's Lone Star in early 1974. -Bill Philips
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At least six 281 class F-9A's recieved the yellow warbonnet. And, at least three variations in the nose stripe and "cigar band" nose emblem are known to have existed. 288L sits at Emporia in April 1974.
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326L at Emporia in March 1973 illustrates one of several nose emblems found on yellow warbonnet 325 class units. Units of the 325 class were built as dual service locomotives, hence the stainless steel.
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Seven 325 class units received the blue warbonnet (dubbed the "Bluebonnet" by Texas railfans). Here at Newton in October 1973, 332L awaits its next assignment.
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