Where can I get number decals for a Lionel Santa Fe FT Locomotive?

The original Santa Fe FT's carried the same number throughout the A-B-B-A set.  There was a suffix (L,A,B,C) not displayed on the side numberboards. 

162LABC was part of the ten FT sets configured for passenger service in 1946.  As F3's arrived,by 1952 they were all reconfigured back for freight service and painted back to blue and yellow.

Rusty

Rusty,

So having 2 #162’s would be correct for my set?

Why are the new Lionel LionChief Santa Fe FT AA set numbered 161 & 164?

Thank you for your reply Rusty,

Greg

COCONUTS posted:

Rusty,

So having 2 #162’s would be correct for my set?

Yes. Back then the units tended to stay together as a set.

Why are the new Lionel LionChief Santa Fe FT AA set numbered 161 & 164?

Lionel moves in mysterious ways.  Technically a single FT-A or A-A pair wouldn't be pulling an SF passenger train because the steam generators in all Santa Fe F's were in the B-Units.

Thank you for your reply Rusty,

 

Greg

 

 

 

See here: http://old.atsfrr.org/resources/funits/ft-pas.htm

More Santa Fe F-unit info: http://old.atsfrr.org/resources/funits/index.htm

I used to ride the Super Chief from Chicago to La with my folks back in the 50’s and early 60’s. I have tons of their old vacation photos including one standing in front of the entrance to the sleeper cars at Dearborn station wearing a sport coat and tie at 8 years old. I was hoping to see one with the front and the numbers...but don’t have any....

fond memories 

Thanks for taking the time to explain that to me.

Greg

Thanks Lou for the links. I collect train photos on Pinterest and have a bunch of Super Chief ones.... I never saw those sites. Someone commented on my ABBA set not being correct with 2 #162’s back when I first got the 2nd A & a B unit. I’m getting ready to do a around the ceiling set up in a metal building I’m having built and look forward to having them out other than Christmas once a year.

Appreciate it.

Greg

After reading those articles It looks like passenger service was over for the FT’s a year or two after I was born. I guess it would have been an F3 or F7 that I enjoyed riding as a kid.

glad I asked first before tearing apart my locomotive and mucking it up.

thank you for the information 

Greg

Rusty,

The 2017 Lionel catalog shows the LionChief set as 2  A units both #164's. I saw a seller on the bay who had a number 161 and some other number listed as a set. I can't find the listing any longer and thought it was #164, but the catalog confirms what you told me.

Greg, 

I have been trying to contact you but I do not have your email address. this is regarding the lion Chiefs Plus Santa Fe Berkshire. please email me at jason asman 34 at gmail dot com. just remove the spaces,  the "at" and the "dot" and replace with the correct symbols.

cj cake posted:

Greg, 

I have been trying to contact you but I do not have your email address. this is regarding the lion Chiefs Plus Santa Fe Berkshire. please email me at jason asman 34 at gmail dot com. just remove the spaces,  the "at" and the "dot" and replace with the correct symbols.

You mean jasonasman34@gmail.com?