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Frisco E7s 2000-2005 were all converted to the "racehorse" scheme in about 1950. Tigerstripe has provided the names in his post above. And, yes, not all were named after racehorses. 2020 "Rig Red" got its name (the common nickname for triple crown winner Man-O-War in the press) because the horse's owners wanted royalty payments for use of the name (no, the UP did not invent that practice), which Frisco was unwilling to pay. The original common paint for the Texas Special and Meteor was DuPont duco red/cream yellow/aluminum gray, but the Meteor units used the blue Frisco coonskin in place of the star and dual heralds, and did not have any lettering on the upper side panels. The stainless side panels came off in the conversion and were reused on a couple of heavyweights. The common paint coincided with what became an abortive merger attempt among the Frisco, Katy and Alton that was rejected by the ICC in the late 1940's owing to (what else?) protests from other RRs. Imagine a fluted stainless steel Alton car (there weren't any) and you've basically got the original streamlined TS-Meteor paint scheme. The maroon trim on the skirts on the TS cars got simplified to duco red starting in 1950. The Frisco cars retained this scheme until the end, although the TS cars eventually got "Frisco" on the letterboards like the Meteor cars. The Katy cars generally kept this scheme, but some got black roofs during the Deramus era (they were sort of default black anyway, because the San Antonio car washer did not scrub the roofs). <br /> <br />The Katy E7s 101 and 101A from the TS operation kept the original paint scheme (whici, sans stainless became the basic MKT scheme until the Deramus debacle) until 1950, when they lost the star, twin heralds and train name and got Katy heralds on the nose and sides. They kept this scheme, along with the stainless, until they were sold for scrap in the mid-1960's. <br /> <br />Even with the new paint, the Frisco racehorse units were an excellent match for the streamlined equipment. BTW, by the late 1950's, the white trim on the racehorse units was history, and the metallic gold then got replaced with a less expensive dull ochre color that was not too dissimilar to the original.
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