I didn’t realize that the Santa Fe had another livery to the Warbonnet…[:0]…just saw an advertisement (MR Aug) for HO locos in this interesting colour scheme! [:)] It was referred to as Cat’s whiskers…intriguing…quite a good descriptive name [:)] heh heh [:)]
Any Santa Fe fans able to help with where and when this was used? Was it used along with the Warbonnet but only on certain trains? [;)]
Dave
It was used in pre WWII if I’m not mistaken on FT units used for freight and maybe passenger. These units were later painted into the more classically know warbonnet scheme. I have the first issue ever of classic trains magazine somewhere around here that talked about the cat whisker locomotives. Really, when I saw the name of this topic, I wasn’t sure if you were talking about the pre-WB cat whiskers, or the catFISH whiskers of NS units [:D].
Zach, thnaks for the info - I hadn’t thought about NS…I suppose I just think of the thoroughbred horse rearing up when I read about NS
Dave.
First though was you had a new photo of Mookie!
Course, now you have to twist her tail a little…
Ed[:D]
Twist Mookie’s tail? Never! [:)]
Unless, of course, heh heh, [(-D] one is an adreniline junkie [(-D] heh heh
Dave
You know,
She has been know to eat at “The Outback” every once in a while…
“The Outback” sounds like an Ozzie style restaurant…wonder how genuine it is…hmmmm…one day I might get the opportunity to try it out…and pester some of you lot at closer range heh heh…[;)]
Dave [:)]
Well,
I was gonna say “Come on down”, but I guess it would be “Come on up” for you…
Anytime you make it to Texas…[:D]
Ed
Keepa you hands off my tail!
Chessie had it right! Should do more of that in this enlightened day and age!
Mookie
Kozzie Dave, come on “up” to Louisville, we have several Outback restraurants
here. We’ve never been, but if you come for a visit, we’ll go there with you to
try it out. Have been wanting to try one of those “bloomin’ onions”!!
Since the first FT units weren’t built until after World War Two started the cat whisker paint scheme was not used pre WWII. The Cat Whisker scheme was used on Santa Fe freight F units from late 1940 to 1951. The Cat Whisker paint was applied to the FTs, the freight F3s and those freight F7s delivered up to 1951.
True there were some FT units painted in the passenger warbonnet scheme from 1946 to 1953. A total of 11 four unit sets of FTs were painted in passenger warbonnet colors out of a fleet of 320 units.
Okay,I’ve modeled for over 40 years,and have really never heard of the paint
scheme called"cat whiskers",I’m very familiar with the “warbonnet”.
So please; someone enlighten me.[:)]
I’ve never heard the scheme called “cat’s whiskers”, but it was used on all freight F units when new, until replaced on some units with the yellow warbonnet scheme. It had three yellow horizontal stripes on the nose, either side of a vertical yellow band. This scheme, with maroon substituted for blue, was used in Australia for the New South Wales railways for cab units, and a single Victorian S class, 313, is currently painted in this scheme, with suitably altered lettering for “Steamrail Victoria” the current owners.
Peter
M636C,thank you;I knew of what they called “wings” but had never heard of the other[:)]
Does its horn meow? If it sees another train does it hiss? Does it mark territory?
I had never heard this scheme called cats whiskers.I had heard it called zebra stripes.In the latest issue of Warbonnet,it states in an article about Santa Fes SD24s, that the first order of these locos , along with the first order of RSD15s,was delivered in the black and silver scheme.
These were the last locos recieved before the ATSF switched to blue and yellow.
Well, I definitely didn’t make it up ha ha! I saw it in the Aug 04 issue of MR mag.
If you turn to page 7, there’s a full page ad by Athearn about their Genesis F units.
Nine different colour schemes are illustrated. The top middle one is Santa Fe, in a very attractive blue and yellow, [:)] and underneath the picture, they refer to Cat Whisker as a description of the livery. [;)] (I made a slight error in saying Cat’s Whiskers - there’s no plural)
That’s why I started this thread, [;)] because I had never seen it before…a good name though isn’t it? [;)][:)]
Dave [;)]
Dave–
That goes for us too. Come on up and we’ll all go twist Mookie’s tail![}:)][}:)][}:)]
By the way, Outback is hardly Aussie.[(-D] But the food is generally OK.
Negative M636C. The Cat Whisker scheme was replaced with the Cigar Band paint scheme and a few 13D Blue F units were done in the late 1950s as a cost experiment. The yellow warbonnet you refer to did not arrive until 1972. Cat whiskers was last applied in 1951 as stated previously.
[:D] Twisting mookie’s tail - [:)][:p] heh heh - as good a reason as any to come "up over’ if I could manage it…maybe one day…
Dave