How many among us have a diesel with the War Bonnet livery ?

Lets see,... multiple FT A&B - 6?  Two SD45s.   8 Total?   Three are my favorite LC+ ABA set!

Has to be the most popular paint scheme, best selling, by far.

I have three conventional  F-3 AA's, one conventional SD40, and one LCP FT AA on the table layout.  One  MTH F-3 ABA on the overhead layout.

Plus these, that greet you at the bottom of the basement stairs.

Jerry

My first Lionel was an Alco FA in the Warbonnet.  I have since acquired a few variations for nostalgia's sake, but they run only around Christmas (can't have diseasels polluting the air the rest of the year).

If you don't have a SF F3 warbonnet with silver passenger cars you should go get one.  That has been the classic symbol of 3 rail trains since the modern era.  Everyone needs at least one to truly be part of the fraternity.  😋

Dick Malon posted:

If you don't have a SF F3 warbonnet with silver passenger cars you should go get one.  That has been the classic symbol of 3 rail trains since the modern era.  Everyone needs at least one to truly be part of the fraternity.  😋

Dick,

You may be right about that! In an effort to control spending, I have adhered to a very strict process of only purchasing motive power for the local roads I grew up with (Pennsy, RDG, and a little Lehigh Valley). Of course, with the first two at least, there is a huge variety available and it's very difficult to be left wanting. Nevertheless, I have always so greatly admired (and desired) Santa Fe schemes just writing this I know I'm gonna bend. The F3 warbonnet and a blue/yellow geep are gonna end up in the house, I just know it. They are really going to stand out in the ultra-conservative sea of brunswick green & tuscan/oxide reds!

Jim 

The title should be - who doesn't have one.

Charlie

I'm one of those odd ones that even though I've been involved in O Gauge for just over 20 years now, I don't have a classical F3 in Warbonnet, nor anything else full size with that paint scheme.  Somehow getting one just never got priority over other desires.

I did sort of rectify the situation by getting a set of the RMT Beefs with Peep passenger cars a few years ago.  It's not the classic, but it's a small representation of the paint scheme.

-Dave

I must also be in the minority.  No Santa Fe Warbonnet engines in my accumulation either.  

Many years ago I did buy a Flyer Santa Fe passenger set from a work associate but it got sold shortly after.

I’ve got a set of A/B F3’s and an ABA set of FT’s.  These engines see their only annual service under the Christmas tree, the FT’s on a passenger train and the F3’s on a freight.  Christmas just kind of screams out for warbonnet engines circling the tree.  

Curt

'More of us have Santa Fe Warbonnets' is a safe bet.  As the most popular paint scheme of the 50s and 60s, the beautiful engines flooded the O-gauge market.  As I relive my childhood, I am drawn to the two Atlas O red ABBA #37LABC and #41LABC and my two Lionel blue and yellow "Cat Whiskers" #200LABC sets.  My original Santa Fe ABA sits on my display shelf with passenger cars that trailed behind through the 60s and 70s.

Ah Christmas, how perfect the colors of the silver and red Warbonnet are for the holidays.  Add a few houses under the green Christmas tree and watch the train run.

Sincerely, John Rowlen

Not me.  Even as a kid, the SF warbonnets didn't interest me.  My interest has always been in the northeastern roads.

I do have a pair of 623 and 6220 SF switchers.  But I always pretend that the NYC or the PRR just bought them from Santa Fe, and they haven't gotten around to repainting them yet.

I forgot the Santa Fe E7 AA engines.  Getting old.  And forgetful, and, ah, ah.

Yes, I'll have some pudding.  Was that the question?  Chocolate pudding. Yummy.

I have one MTH Premier A-A set, so I guess I qualify.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

I have one MTH Premier A-A set, so I guess I qualify.

Yep, yer in. I'm still out. Maybe I'll find something in Allentown next weekend...

Postwar Lionel 2343 Santa Fe F3 ABA, listen to its 2 horizontal motors growl:

8 Alco PA’s

7 GP60M’s

8 F3’

21 F7’s

Note: The above list includes O Scale and HO. In addition, on the Alco’s, F3’s and F7’s (47 in total) 23 of them are B units.

My only bonnets are the Lionel 2353's that came with my 1954 set, which was the first set I received as a kid. 

Being a tinplate guy, this is the only one I have.

Steve

https://youtu.be/55m7RXGV2I8

I just took a look at my Diesel inventory and see I have 15 Warbonnet engines.

• Lionel 2383 F3AA with a 2243 B unit
• Weaver Sd40
• MTH SD40
•    "  SD70ACe  2
•    "   Dah 9 44cw  2
•    "  Dash 8 cw    
•   "   SD40
•    "  SD75
•   "   FP45 Custom painted
•  "    GP60M  3
•   "   GP38

I also have 10 other ATSF  diesels but in freight scheme (blue/yellow) including a MTH ABA set.   

Always loved the Santa Fe scheme. When I got my first full time job in the late 70’s, I went to Madison Hardware and picked up a 2383 Warbonnet AA set (got a matching B unit a year or two later). Since then, I picked up two TMCC sets - an F3 ABA and PA/PB. I’m not a fan of the newer diesels in the Warbonnet scheme - to me, all the straight lines and crisp angles don’t mesh well with fluid Warbonnet design... but that’s just me!!!

I have 3:

Postwar ABBA 2343 F3s on the El Capitan

Williams ABA PAs on the Chief

Late 90's ABBA 2343 F3s on the Super Chief 

I had a couple

Laidoffsick posted:

I had a couple

Love it!!!

GregM posted:

I must also be in the minority.  No Santa Fe Warbonnet engines in my accumulation either.  

Many years ago I did buy a Flyer Santa Fe passenger set from a work associate but it got sold shortly after.

I just remembered that sometime in late 1971 a neighbor that knew I was into trains gave me a Lionel postwar O gauge Santa Fe passenger set.  It had AA F3's and possibly five passenger cars.  When I moved into my first apartment in 1972 I didn't have room for it so I sold it and bought some "N" gauge trains.  Talk about being young and dumb!  

Hello, back in the late fifties or early sixties my father purchased the original Santa Fe A-B-A set and converted the dummy A unit to a powered A unit. He then painted and decalled all of them into the Boston & Maine maroon and gold (yellow). When he died in the seventies, I liquidated his collection, except for a few items, which started my Christmas layout. I don't know what the purchaser of set did with the A-B-A set.

Laidoffsick posted:

I had a couple

VERY impressive... but I’m detecting a pattern here   

Guilty...

• K-Line:  F7 ABA
• Williams:  FA1 AA, F3 ^_(Red) AA, F3 ^_(Blue) ABA
• Atlas:  GP-60 ^_(Red)
• HO Tyco (1970's era Brown Box) F7 AB (My first Santa Fe warbonnet - bought used ^{_{(and still have)}} w/ snow shoveling money from corner hobby shop.)

jgtrh62 posted:

I always thought the E8 Warbonnets looked great too.

That is an exceptionally nice-looking model.  I see it is 2-rail.  Who was the manufacturer?

Being a tinplate guy, there's little room for modern trains in my collection, but I do have a set of 2343 Santa Fe F3s. To me, my collection wouldn't be complete without it. 

John

..... and to think I am happy to have just one!!  This was the iconic one I always saw in displays and layouts when I was growing up, but never in reach financially for our family. I would imagine a majority of us could sign on to the same statement?

The ATSF has always been a sentimental favorite of mine, even though I never saw anything Santa Fe growing up. Only with the BNSF merger did red/silver and blue/yellow engines start appearing in my neck of the woods. Nonetheless, my very first train was a Santa Fe--a push-train with an FP45-ish engine in simplified Warbonnet paint, which came with a Hot Wheels Railroad set that folded up into a large briefcase shape. Since I'd never seen nor heard of Santa Fe before, I pronounced it "Santa Fee"!

http://diecast.spiraln.com/trains/index.html

 (That set was given away to relatives a long time ago; photo from the "The Super Happy Funtime Virtual Diecast Vehicle Museum").

I only first got an O gauge Warbonnet diesel at spring York, a smart-looking '70s Double Diesel set with Alcos. It won't be the last, I'm sure.

I'm not one to seek out Warbonnets, but eventually acquired a first-gen MTH C40-8 (literally from the first production run--the box doesn't even have a 20-xxxx product number on it), from a friend who was moving from O to HO.

A couple of decades later, I became the owner of a postwar Lionel 2343 by way of a 2014 estate sale. The shells were  well abused, so I found better-looking ones at York and outfitted them with a full set of trim.

At a later Greenburg show I bought a 'B' unit for these as well.

---PCJ

I am particularly fond of Lionel F3s.

My first electric set was led by this Santa Fe 8351.

And my late Dad's Santa Fe 6220 bell ringer. 

I have warbonnets in N, HO, S, O and G scale.  In O I have Mikes, K-Line, Lionel (new and old) and Marx.  I have EMDs, FMs and Alcos.  Es, Fs, FPs, Erie Builts, PAs, DL109/110.  I probably left some out.  I swore I would never buy another until someone at a local club meet offered the Legacy F-7 ABA set to match my breakdown B for an excellent price.

Oh well, just one more won't kill me!

Rolland

Have a set of F3’s, pair of U28CGs and a U28CG in blue warbonnet 

So, in 2002, I inherited my grandfather's O27 postwar collection that I played with as a kid. I love each item, but he didnt have the O Gauge F3s like my uncle. First purchase was the early 2000s Santa Fe passenger set with an FT leading the train. Not quite the PW or modern scale F3 but still a warbonnet, and it's what guests want to see.