I have a set of Weaver Santa Fe passenger cars that have red stripes above and below the windows and I was wondering if Santa Fe ever had passenger cars painted like this?
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No.
Unpainted stainless steel was the order of the day on Santa Fe's fluted passenger cars.
Rusty
This raises an interesting question. Where did the manufacturers get the idea of adding stripes to ATSF passenger cars?
Originally Posted by AGHRMatt:
This raises an interesting question. Where did the manufacturers get the idea of adding stripes to ATSF passenger cars?
Maybe the SP Sunset Limited passenger train?
Originally Posted by AGHRMatt:
This raises an interesting question. Where did the manufacturers get the idea of adding stripes to ATSF passenger cars?
Goes back to Lionel. In 1955 the passenger car die was changed to include channels so an adhesive tuscan stripes could be placed for their Congressional set.
The Lionel Canadian Pacific set followed in 1957.
The first Lionel red-stripe Santa Fe cars appeared in 1959. It was apparently felt the red stripe cars matched the Santa Fe F3's better and the cars look pretty sparse with all that removed fluting and no color in the channels.
Rusty
Santa Fe stainless steel passenger cars only had black lettering in extended Railroad Roman. The trucks were silver and were freshly painted at all times. The cars were kept very clean and shiny with frequent washing. There was no added color in lettering or striping.
