Warbonnets - still around

It's been a few years, but when I was last by the BNSF engine yard in I believe Gallop NM (Tom correct me?) they still had mostly warbonnet painted GP60's.  In the Phoenix area I caught a photo of a GP60 and a Dash-8 4 axle in 2011, but I haven't seen anything other than an occasional heavily faded blue and yellow GP38-2 in local service.

Maybe BNSF will start a heritage program too someday and bring back all the predecessor schemes?  One can dream. 

Great shots Breezinup! They aren’t even Fakebonnets! They are the real thing!

And I thought those were pure fantasy schemes. Thanks for posting.

There's actually still a lot of them around and those you posted look really good compared to most of them. The majority of the ones still around are major POS's inside, and out. They had sat in storage (many of them in Barstow, CA) for awhile and were brought back out for lack of power (but are not allowed to be used in CA per EPA standards)

GG1 4877 posted:

Maybe BNSF will start a heritage program too someday and bring back all the predecessor schemes?  One can dream. 

I thought about that, too. Someone should slip a hint to Warren Buffet that it would be classy and great PR to put some Warbonnet heritage engines on the system.  As GG1 indicates, it would be terrific if BNSF would bring back the other great liveries for heritage units, too. 

We still see War Bonnets here in Sioux City, Iowa.

Dick

Not as often anymore, but still see them rolling through Placentia, Anaheim and Yorba Linda.

Steve

Don't forget about the yellow and Blue bonnets.  These I took in Alliance during the winter.  Lincoln has 4 to 6 of the Red and Silver bonnets.  I will be out today and will try and get some pics.  2 of them sit by the Hump at the yard. Nick T. 

San Antonio, Texas resident here. This photo will actually be almost one year old. Took it on September 30th of 2018. I rarely get to leave San Antonio, much less go chase trains. However, I got lucky one September morning after dining at a Shoney's Restauraunt for breakfast. Upon leaving the store a UP Freight passed and sandwiched between the two engines was Santa Fe SD75M #220, now patched for PRLX.

Im sorry that the photo was bad, my mom was too busy laughing at my excitement over a train (at my then-age of 18 mind you, I never got that excited over trains since I was a child) and hesitated to hand me the phone. If only she understood...

We don't get much here in San Antonio, although as a child I for some reason remember seeing a lot of Patched SP Units. I dunno, maybe im just weird.

t8afao posted:

 

Don't forget about the yellow and Blue bonnets.  These I took in Alliance during the winter.  Lincoln has 4 to 6 of the Red and Silver bonnets.  I will be out today and will try and get some pics.  2 of them sit by the Hump at the yard. Nick T. 

Didn’t know a pair of ATSF C30-7’s still ran on BNSF! Apparently from a simple search, 5208 is a backup power supply for the shops. Don’t know on 5194.

Nice coincidence - as an Amazon Prime member I get "free" access to a lot of their video content and bought a firestick on sale on "Amazon Prime Day" a few weeks ago and set it up. Turns out they have a crapload of train videos and movies - both real and model - that I never knew about.

The other night I watched a movie entitled, "Santa Fe Mainline Memories" which captured a few dozen or so freight consists along the mainlines and stubs from just south of Chicago to Los Angeles and many of the stations and crew changes along the route - all headed by from 1 -5 Warbonnet or Blue n' Yellow Santa Fe engines.  

I also learned a couple of things I never knew - one, that some freight engines have doors in the nose (rather than the side or rear of the engine) for an engineer or crew member to open and climb up into the cab and, two, I learned where the term "hump" (as in "Do Not Hump") originated.

If you get a chance, I highly recommend it. 

Still have them running around up here between Portland and Seattle.

Here in St. Louis, I'm seeing more and more of the old red and silver war bonnets, much the worse for wear, and a lot of the blue and yellow. Even some Mexican National livery, at the Old Frisco Lindenwood Yard that BNSF uses.

I just deleted inappropriate political comments....all of which go against our TOS.  Another political comment posted here will result in your membership being terminated...tired of folks spewing their poison!

Thank you Alan!  Just great seeing surviving warbonnets in this thread.

Here are mine from 2011.  I know a bit dated, but still nice to see.  Both grab shots unfortunately.  Both shot in Glendale, Arizona on the BNSF Phoenix Sub better known as the "Peavine"

See the GE’s here from time to time on the corn trains 

NS6770Fan posted:

t8afao posted:

 

Don't forget about the yellow and Blue bonnets.  These I took in Alliance during the winter.  Lincoln has 4 to 6 of the Red and Silver bonnets.  I will be out today and will try and get some pics.  2 of them sit by the Hump at the yard. Nick T. 

Didn’t know a pair of ATSF C30-7’s still ran on BNSF! Apparently from a simple search, 5208 is a backup power supply for the shops. Don’t know on 5194.

The 5194 was in a string of mothball engines sitting in the Alliance yard. They are now scrapped or who knows where now. The 5208 has been sitting by the shops for the last 20 years that I have been going to Alliance.  Love the old U boats.

Clarence Siman posted:

Here in St. Louis, I'm seeing more and more of the old red and silver war bonnets, much the worse for wear, and a lot of the blue and yellow. Even some Mexican National livery, at the Old Frisco Lindenwood Yard that BNSF uses.

Stole my thunder.  Yep, I see them there too.

Yes! Here are a couple pics I took in 2017.

Lionelski posted:

Yes! Here are a couple pics I took in 2017.

Now THAT's a "War Bonnet"!!!!   All those others are just imitations.

breezinup posted:

GG1 4877 posted:

Maybe BNSF will start a heritage program too someday and bring back all the predecessor schemes?  One can dream. 

I thought about that, too. Someone should slip a hint to Warren Buffet that it would be classy and great PR to put some Warbonnet heritage engines on the system.  As GG1 indicates, it would be terrific if BNSF would bring back the other great liveries for heritage units, too. 

Ne cateful.  We might get GEICO, Star Furniture...

OGR CEO-PUBLISHER posted:

I just deleted inappropriate political comments....all of which go against our TOS.  Another political comment posted here will result in your membership being terminated...

There sre two fakebonnets at the railroad miseum in Galveston.  They are ex SP.  Now, black widow would have been really nice.

t8afao posted:

 

Don't forget about the yellow and Blue bonnets.  These I took in Alliance during the winter.  Lincoln has 4 to 6 of the Red and Silver bonnets.  I will be out today and will try and get some pics.  2 of them sit by the Hump at the yard. Nick T. 

Did the 5208 get a short hood from an SF30C?  That sure doesn't look like a stock GE short hood.

Stuart

I prefer blue over Warbonnets.