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Santa Fe U23C Warbonnet Paint Date? Locos and rolling stock
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Regular poster 240 posts Mark Mathu Regular poster 240 posts
Mark Mathu

When were the AT&SF's GE U23Cs repainted into the yellow-and-blue warbonnet scheme?
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Volker Frequent poster 981 posts
Volker

A quick search led to this

A quick search led to this website: http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?locomotive=U23C

It contains photos of U23C locomotive in the blue scheme and the blue and yellow warbonnet, both from 1974. So it gives kind of a time frame.
Regards, Volker
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Mark Mathu Regular poster 240 posts
Mark Mathu

Santa Fe U23C Warbonnet Paint Date?

I've seen photos as early as 1974 in warbonnet, and photos as late as 1972 in pre-warbonnet. I'm not a AT&SF modeler (and didn't grow up along the Santa Fe) so I don't know if this class of locomotives was repainted en masse or piecemeal over several years. I'm trying to write a caption for this photo and see if I can pin down a date for the scene.
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blindog10 Prolific poster 3,333 posts
blindog10

bookends was rare by 1978

My father, a Santa Fe fan, made two trips to Santa Fe country in 1978 and found only one non-Warbonnet in central California (an F45) and only a couple bookenders in east Texas, which was kinda the rump end of the railroad. He and I went back to Texas a couple months later (I had just gotten my learners permit) and I only saw a few bookenders (CF7s and GP7s). Scott Chatfield
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blindog10 Prolific poster 3,333 posts
blindog10

what were those U23Cs thinking?

"Dorothy, we're not in New Mexico anymore!!! Where did all those trees come from?!?!" Scott Chatfield
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Mark Mathu Regular poster 240 posts
Mark Mathu

what were those U23Cs thinking?

“I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque.”
- confused ATSF GE U23C
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