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Re: Surprise, new train set
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Sat, 9 Feb 2002 19:38:11 GMT
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Kim Toll built a BNSF in War Bonnet colors 3 years ago. Here's the thread:
http://news.lugnet.com/build/?n=1848
but the URL is no longer valid, try this one instead:
http://www.easystreet.com/~kjmrr/
the SOO is nice too!
Heres a shot form the LEGOLAND disply
http://www.pnltc.org/Gal_LLCA_0801/TrainDisplayArea/Gallery.html?08040017
SteveB
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.
>
> 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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| (...) think I've said before). My only critique is that the nose is perhaps one stud too long, it's more E like than F like... F's start rounding down just about right in front of the cab front windows. Combine the nose, grid, and porthole (...) (25 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 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.trains)
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