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Re: Surprise, new train set
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 9 Feb 2002 18:27:08 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Mike Walsh writes:
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> > That would be very cool but I would be very surprised to see them chrome.
> > That would be a lot of chrome! But we can hope. I too am looking forward
> > to this set as the SantaFe warbonnet design is probably my all time favorite
> > locomotive.
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> The pedant in me is forced to point out that Super Chief(tm) is a named
> train of the ATSF, and warbonnet is a paint scheme of the ATSF... neither,
> techically, is a locomotive. LEGO(r)'s labeling it as such is a bit off.
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> The Super Chief named train was pulled by a number of different locomotives
> over the years. It premiered, IIRC, with a custom boxcab/shovelnose
> locomotive for power and worked its way through various E and F units before
> the F7s (referenced in the site someone else linked to) were standardised
> on. Later on it used cowl units.
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> The warbonnet scheme has been applied to a LOT of different locos over the
> years, including some in service today that havent yet gotten repainted in
> BNSF colors. I think there was even a dark blue/yellow variant for ATSF
> freight service at one point, and you can argue that one of the current
> multicolor BNSF schemes is derived from the warbonnet scheme.
The Blue/yellow isn't considered a warbonnet though ;-) Only the
red/yellow/silver... There was also a red/yellow design for the failed
SP-SF merger...
Josh
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> Nevertheless I await more details as eagerly as everyone else. IMHO, the
> sharpest application of the warbonnet was to the Alco PA...
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| (...) Yes there was a red/yellow. Those are both warbonnets. The distinguishing characteristic of the warbonnet scheme is (according to ATSF historians, writing before you were born) the shape of the demarcation between the front color and the rest (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) The pedant in me is forced to point out that Super Chief(tm) is a named train of the ATSF, and warbonnet is a paint scheme of the ATSF... neither, techically, is a locomotive. LEGO(r)'s labeling it as such is a bit off. The Super Chief named (...) (23 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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