BNSF

[Awesome!]

I heard the BNSF is going to use on the next set of locomotives blue and yellow scheme. Can anyone confirm?

[wjstix]

In the 1990's (maybe late 1980's) ATSF began getting new diesels in the red and silver 'warbonnet' scheme, so they did indeed have some freight engines in warbonnet paint. In fact I believe the last engines delivered to Santa Fe pre-merger, their SD-75's, had the warbonnet on it:

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/tr_sf229.jpg

http://www.somewherewest.com/Route66/Abobridge/SF235.jpg

[SSW9389]

Stix: It was in 1990 that Santa Fe's Mike Haverty had the eight FP45s painted up in what was called the Super Fleet colors. New road units from EMD and GE were delivered in the Warbonnet Super Fleet colors starting in 1990 with the GP60Ms and the B40-8Ws. Other units to wear the new colors were the GP60Bs, C40-8Ws, C44-9Ws, and the SD75Ms.

Diesel data from The Santa Fe Diesel Volume Two: 1960-1995 by Dr. Cinthia Priest.

 

Ed

 

In the 1990's (maybe late 1980's) ATSF began getting new diesels in the red and silver 'warbonnet' scheme, so they did indeed have some freight engines in warbonnet paint. In fact I believe the last engines delivered to Santa Fe pre-merger, their SD-75's, had the warbonnet on it:

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/tr_sf229.jpg

http://www.somewherewest.com/Route66/Abobridge/SF235.jpg

[railfanespee4449]

Personally, I like a nice yellowbonnet.

I guess a girl in a Mini-Skirt walked by when he was painting the first "a".

 Actually, that was the result of a hood door from another locomotive being used to replace the damaged original door. Here's a few more examples of that.

borrowed from atsf.railfan.net

[espeefoamer]

I remember seeing an A-B-A set of warbonnet F units on a freight train somewhere in the L.A. area in the early 1960s.

I first saw Santa Fe's blue and yellow freight warbonnet scheme in 1972. I guess Santa Fe wanted to keep the lines of the warbonnet alive after Amtrak.