Did someone say 'Santa Fe'?

Sweet!!!!!

 

Oh, and back attcha

 

. Santa Fe GP-7u with slug.

 

 

A few from my SF family.

F7s pulling the "Fruit Express"

 

Keep 'em coming!  There's no such thing as too much ATSF.

One of my favorites.

 

 

 

Pete

All the way with Santa Fe

 

 

Sam, know you love the RR like I love Milwaukee, so here you go. Don

Zebras have that get down to work look to them.  A very underated livery compared to the WB!

Here are a few:

 

U25B's (They've since been weathered.)

 

ATSF Isle of Denial SD70ACe -- scale wheels to boot.

 

C40-8W's

 

Blue Goose 4-6-4 arrived this past Monday.

 

Mikado. My favorite engine. Currently down with a blown Proto-2 board.

 

2-10-4 Texas

 

3460-Class 4-6-4 Hudson

 

First-generation MTH Premier C-30-7 #8140

 

C30-7 #8152

 

4-8-4 Northern

 

Atlas First-run B40-8W #502

 

B40-8W #518

 

Not making an appearance:

 

C30-7 #8123

SD24 #900, 995

C40-8 #7428, 7412

FP45 # 5944, 5946

Those are sure pretty Rick!

 

Could you use a second F7 B unit?

 

Didn't see an email in your profile so I posted this here.

No layout pix, but here is my favorite real one.

 

Thanks for the compliment and offer Sam, but if my appetite for steam keeps going the way it is these may end up on the "for sale" forum one day. These spend most of their time on the shelf, I keep telling myself if I let them go I will regret it.

Sam and Rick - as a bit of historic Santa Fe trivia.  The prototype of that group of Warbonnet F7's were dual-purpose (freight/passenger) engines.  They were assigned to what Popular Science termed the Fastest Freight.  The Grape Train!  Look at the number 334.  Lionel's F7 A's are 332 and 333.

 

 

 Here is the story:

 http://books.google.com/books?id=9i0DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA140&lpg=PA140&dq=popular+science+santa+fe+grape+train&source=bl&ots=4WsIwNbiJA&sig=AXYQ6KsP6_ciRg0eJQ11nsz4lY0&sa=X&ei=pQoxUK6nGOO26wH__oGoBA&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=popular%20science%20santa%20fe%20grape%20train&f=false

 

 

One more, I can't help myself....

Photo of the Fastmail on my unfinished layout.

 

 

totomac - Nice backdrop!

 

BTW Your favorite picture reminds me.  Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were in a movie, "My Friend Irma Goes West",  which is on YouTube.  They take the Santa Fe from Chicago to Albuquerque.  Albuquerque is in part 7 at about 4:03.  I have a hard time with the video insertion.

but here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0XnRRmi4L4&feature=relmfu

 

 

 

Thanks Marker. I had a set back last month with a leaking water pipe in the ceiling and onto my layout. Did find out that homosote can get soaked and dry just fine. Locomotives water spot really bad and popcorn ceiling makes a mess on rolling stock. Weaver wheelsets rust really quickly! I repaired the pipe and sheetrock, so hopefully can get back to laying track and wiring. 

 

I remember that video, but forgot they stopped in Albuquerque. I often wondered if that photo inspired the "Along Your Way or Along the Route" booklets?

 

This is one of my favorites.

A few from my roster:

 

SD40:

 

 

SD40-2:

 

 

GP60:

 

 

GP60M:

 

 

Dash 8-40BW:

 

 

FP45:

 

 

SD45:

 

 

Dash 8-40CW:

 

 

Dash 9-44CW:

 

 

Westbound pig train:

 

 

Doublestack train:

 

 

waiting to depart:

 

 

Santa Fe sign, Clovis, NM:

 

Check the buy and sell board I just posted yesterday some of my lionel- kline stuff in santa fe all like new and hardly used! Hated to part with it but needed to sell cheap to pay some bills. The geep9 was my first tmcc engine and brought me back to my first love lionel. I am sad to see it go. A friend of mine said I needed a train intervention. Maybe he is right! Letting these items go could be a start I suppose!

Here are a couple of Santa Fe consists of mine:

 

Santa Fe El Capitan:

 

 

Santa Fe Intermodal:

 

C&O Allie, Very nice Sanata Fe Action in both of your video's

SANTA FE ...............................ALL THE WAY............

 

Cemet Hopper

Engines in yard

 

Yard Office

 

1 to 1 scale supplies

 

SANTA FE ALL THE WAY

This has been a great thread. No one has sullied this fine display of Santa Fe motive power and equipment with pumpkins.

your picture did not show for me. 

you do not need to link to photobucket any more just down load them to OGR.

!!!!   Awesome!

 

I would add to it but....  I'm in China atm and don't have my photos of the layout with me.

 

I hope it is OK to ask a question on this thread about the Santa Fe since there are so  many fans posting.

 

Who has the correct Santa Fe red color?  The Lionel looks a little off to me compared to the post war versions.  The Atlas GP60 M's appear almost burgandy (just not a shinny, pretty red).  The nicest looking F3"s were the ones MTH made in the late 90's when they released the El Capatan(? spelling) set.  But it seems the later MTH Santa Fe engines have a different red.

 

Thanks,

Don

OK, I have the L 2353.  Saw the non-ATSF repainted Warbonnets from Galveston.  OK, it is nice.  But i still think the passenger Warbonnets are vastly overrated.  But the Zebra's look great!

I remember seeing your steam pictures from your Boston club. Also think I saw your son in pictures maybe at the home layout. Hope you will post some if you are back from China.

My MTH RK AT&SF Northern. I really like this loco as MTH put a good sized tender behind it and makes the loco almost look scale......and some weathering makes it look even more scale!

My WBB custom painted F unit. Started out as a CSX IIRC and will get some detail, dulled down some.

Love that Warbonnet!!!  As someone said several years ago, "If you painted a brick Warbonnet, someone would buy it!"  Here is the Warbonnet brick I made and posted earlier this year.  I realize everyone will want this, but guys, it is not for sale!

 

;-)

 

PS: I have a total of ten red and silver Warbonnet F3 A and B units, too.

 

The brick - I love it, I love it, I love it!

I do like Warbonnets.