Nostalgia & History > Santa Fe Zebras Part One

1. Alco HH1000 #2315, Los Angeles, 3-10-62

2. Alco S1 #2304, Bakersfield 6-8-65

3. Alco S2 2355 (white, not silver stripes) Los Angeles, 3-2-62

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Mas Mas por favor!!!! Do you have the 2314 or 2322?

Roberto,

Lo siento, no. Feliz Pascua.

1. FM H12-44 #515....Chillicothe, IL, 11-2-63

2. EMD NW2 #2408...Chicago, 7-14-64

3. Alco RS1 2398...Chicago, 7-14-64

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1. Alco RSD5s #2146/2153, Pueblo, CO, 10-23-57

2. Alco RSD15 #810, Barstow, CA, 9-3-60

3. EMD GP7 #2662, Los Angeles, 5-12-62

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1. EMD SD24 #916, Barstow, 9-3-60

2. EMD SD24 #927, Los Angeles, 9-4-60

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Thanks for the great photo's.

JR

Yummy!!!! My second favorite SFe paint scheme. Next to the red and silver warbonnet of course.

No Mas Fina! Feliz Pascua.

Zo Moi!

More please!!

Axy

Excellent! I never really cared much for the blue with yellow stripes (vastly preferred the Yellowbonnet with blue), but every other Santa Fe paint scheme is great in my book. Love the zebra stripes.

Z

Thanks to Mr. Fox, we can now enjoy this paint scheme on the PHL

Some of the strips look aluminum; while others look white. Did they use two colors, or is it the film, or is it aluminum faded to white?

Yes. Some units wore white diagonal stripes with horizontal silver stripes, lettering, and numbers.

You've got my attention!!!
OUTSTANDING!!!
THANK YOU!!!
TAH

The second photo (of #2304) can also be seen on pg. 118 of Stagner's "Santa Fe 1940-1971 In Color, Volume 3: Albuquerque-Los Angeles."

The eighth photo (of #810) can be seen on pg. 31 of the book.

The eleventh photo (of #927) can be found on pg. 30 of the book, erroneously placed in the Barstow section (the book's author may also have incorrectly identified the photographer).

The 515 is white stripes with silver lettering, you can see that the cab number is different in color to the stripes.

Jeff Smith
Lakewood, CA
RailMaster Hobbies

This is great stuff! Thanks much for starting this thread! I will be painting ALCo S-2 No.2381 at PSRM, Campo, CA, soon and we are taking it back to Zebra. Does anyone have a picture of it in service during it's zebra days? http://www.sdrm.org/roster/diesel/d-2381/index.html
Larry

UPJeff Wrote:

> The 515 is white stripes with silver lettering,
> you can see that the cab number is different in
> color to the stripes.

A lot of the H12-44's were like that. The silver ("aluminum") parts of the scheme are the same as the very simple black with a silver stripe and emblem "wartime" paint scheme Santa Fe used before switching to zebra stripes around 1949. I've often wondered if these units were delivered in the simpler scheme, and a Santa Fe paint shop that had only white paint on hand added the stripes.