ATSF-F7-Trio by MadMike1024

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Re: ATSF-F7-Trio by MadMike1024

Unread postby MadMike1024 » Wed May 21, 2014 11:18 am

Hack wrote:Except when these were in their final years, and FWIW, Santa Fe ran their B-Units with the Indian head facing forward. Other than that, nice work! :D


The indian head does face the DB end (front) of the B units, the hostler was being lazy that day. If you have the info, would you be so kind as to let me know what the correct number series would be for these? I Know the Blues were freight geared, and in the 28x group, suspect the reds were dual use in the 3xx group, but the yellows are not being obvious.

Also, other than on the log book, did the B units have a separate number assigned, or were they part of the AB set?
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Re: ATSF-F7-Trio by MadMike1024

Unread postby MadMike1024 » Wed May 21, 2014 2:28 pm

@Mr. Cowen: The updated F shape works perfectly, thank you.
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Re: ATSF-F7-Trio by MadMike1024

Unread postby Bananarama » Wed May 21, 2014 4:13 pm

MadMike1024 wrote:The indian head does face the DB end (front) of the B units, the hostler was being lazy that day. If you have the info, would you be so kind as to let me know what the correct number series would be for these? I Know the Blues were freight geared, and in the 28x group, suspect the reds were dual use in the 3xx group, but the yellows are not being obvious.

Also, other than on the log book, did the B units have a separate number assigned, or were they part of the AB set?

DB is in the back, yes, but the unit was (whenever possible) turned so that the Indian head was facing forward (with DB to the rear). Santa Fe was fairly picky on this subject up until the late 1960s.

As for numbered series, the following should prove useful:

http://atsfrr.net/resources/funits/index.htm

Santa Fe purchased in sets, but in later years the units were mixed all over the place. Some Bs lost their parent As and vis versa. Generally speaking, the lead unit was designated 'L', with B-Units as 'A' and 'B', and if there was a forth A-Unit, it used a 'C'. Thus, sets were ordered in 'LABS' or 'LAB' configurations. There was a renumbering campaign in the late 1950s and early 1960s:

http://atsfrr.net/resources/CrossetGene ... /index.htm (warning: exhaustive list)

Many of the Warbonnets were re-geared to dual gearing at this time. Except for a couple of Yellow Bonnets painted for Amtrak, all other units were geared for freight, and AFAIK remained this way unit wrecked, sold, or rebuilt to CF-7s in the 1970s.

Images of which units were painted in what scheme can be traced somewhat on George Elwood's fallen flag site, or you can scan through the ATSFRR site linked above:

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/atsf/atsf.html
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Unread postby Bananarama » Wed May 21, 2014 11:00 pm

Eh - sorry for the typos! !**duh*!!
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Re: ATSF-F7-Trio by MadMike1024

Unread postby MadMike1024 » Thu May 22, 2014 1:11 am

mdurdan wrote:Nice to see everyone getting involved in the details here, glad we have a community of people who want it done 100% right! !*cheers*!


I've done a kind of odd thing. I made a 'C' for the numberboard, and set up a special DSCV file the affixes a C to the end of the number on the uncrewed A locos. the B units have hidden, but scenario friendly numbers, and the Lead A (crewed) locos have an 'X' (or a blank) as a prefix on the numbers in the numberboard. if you wish you can set up two digit numbers both on the body and the numberboard (format: x47x) as the lower case x is a blank. An Extra train would (format: X47x) show an X47 in the numberboard, and 47 on the carbody. Richard's F7 model has a 48" dynamic brake fan, so it would be in the later series, but we can kind of close one eye to shrink it.
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Re: ATSF-F7-Trio by MadMike1024

Unread postby MadMike1024 » Thu May 22, 2014 3:40 pm

Package has been completed, and is uploaded. When Bob finally gets time, we'll see it.
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Re: ATSF-F7-Trio by MadMike1024

Unread postby Willibaldus » Mon May 26, 2014 4:34 am

MadMike1024 wrote:Package has been completed, and is uploaded. When Bob finally gets time, we'll see it.

Thank you Mad Mike for your very good work!
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