I’m amazed this GP60M still looks good and retains a clean red-silver warbonnet. I wish most of the warbonnet Santa Fe GEs looked this good.
It just needs the black outline on BNSF and it would be perfect!
I think it would look better if it just said “Sante Fe”, like it used to. And I think the silver and red warbonnet paint scheme is the best looking paint scheme developed by any railroad, bar none!
There seem to be a number of these GP60’s on some grain trains through here, I know there are several that seem to operate around the Wellington, Ks. Yard and some look pretty good[tup] [tup] and some don’t![V] But some still are painted up with Santa Fe on the hood, and some are also carrying the BNSF under the cab numbers. Saw a pair on a recent Business Train move that seemed to be really clean and still in their original livery![8D][8D] Way Cool!
Holy crap!!! Thats awesome! Looks darn near mint![tup]
IF WARREN BUFFETT HAS A SPINE HE WILL ORDER BNSF TO REPAINT EVERY ENGINE IN RED WARBONNET
Amen. TESTIFY Brother! [tup] [tup]
Bruce
Don’t hold your breath. At the risk of having my head handed to me, I will say that warbonnet colors of red and silver only looked good on the point of a passenger train. They look completely out of place in freight service. I photographed a BNSF GP60M in Heritage colors in pulldown duty at Barstow several months ago, warbonnet colors in this duty would not fit.
[tup] Paul, I was afraid to say anything, but I agree. [:)] I would rather see the blue and yellow return. I liked the blue and yellow F units! [:D] I’ll paint a bullseye on myself, now. [:O] I liked the “Kodachrome” colors, too.[:-,]
I think it is a case of what you grew up with. I am old enough to have had either three or four toy engines painted in the war bonnet scheme. I hadn’t really given it much thought over the years. Then a couple of years back in answer to a question posed on the forum someone posted a YouTube video of GP60M’s in war bonnet colours running in open country somewhere in California. Man, did I like that. I then clicked on several more related video’s.
Seeing that paint job on what were then new at the time, I suppose, engine’s really made my day. Going fast on freight’s or passenger trains that paint job looked good.
Bruce