On the subject of F Unites, and their various paint schemes, specifically, the F-3's and F-7's. I'll bet this has come up before, but I just can't work this out in my head, simply put; what's the dif
The CB&Q only had Two (2) paint schemes on their F Units: Freight (Grayback) Immitation Aluminum (Dupont off-white or gray color) with red stripes and black edging Passenger (CZ F3s 9960-2ABC only) S
No wonder your confused! You're crossing SP with CB&Q! :) CB&Q did not have a 'bloody nose' scheme. However, it did have quite a few variants. I'll see if I can list them all... Switchers - very earl
There is one other variation on the Q freight F Units, the F-3 "Chicken Wire" the red body stripe did not go through the chicken wire. Loren Johnson **Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Tr
LorenI wouldn't propose the variation for the Chicken Wire F units as a different paint job....just an application of the one paint scheme. Just as there were adjustments from the original scheme tha
Well yes, it is a variation, as on the early E7's with the small number boards. The chicken wire F3's were the ones I liked the best mainly due to the stripe. One thing is for sure though, I'd like t