Western Railroad Discussion > Santa Fe class CE-9 caboose 999551

I'm looking for color pictures of Santa Fe's CE-9 class rebuilt caboose 999551 in the BLUE paint scheme. I have looked in all the usual places, and some of the unusual and can't find any. There is a B&W photo in Frank Ellington's Santa Fe Caboose book on page 99 and data shows that it was destroyed at Mobest AZ. on 7/21/88. presumably in a derailment, but have been unable to find any color ones. Anyone that can help, Thank-You very much
Steve Kelly.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/21 18:44 by santafesteve.

santafesteve Wrote:
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> I'm looking for color pictures of Santa Fe's CE-9
> class rebuilt caboose 999551 in the BLUE paint
> scheme. I have looked in all the usual places, and
> some of the unusual and can't find any. There is a
> B&W photo in Frank Ellington's Santa Fe Caboose
> book on page 99 and data shows that it was
> destroyed at Mobest AZ. on 7/21/88. presumably in
> a derailment, but have been unable to find any
> color ones. Anyone that can help, Thank-You very
> much
> Steve Kelly.

Never heard of a blue paint scheme for Santa Fe waycars.
I've seen/heard of Mineral Brown, Indian Red, the red scheme that was used on the Ce-5 cars and the red/yellow SPSF scheme.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/21 22:04 by PHall.

There's a photo of 999551 at Summit on RRPA. 

It dates from 1986 in standard red paint. Unless it got blue paint between the date of the photo and the time it was destroyed in 1988, it's a pretty short time to be painted in blue.

New paint and odd Santa Fe scheme on a caboose should yield in dozens of photos from the regular shutterbugs shooting up the 1980s train scene.

santafesteve Wrote:

> I'm looking for color pictures of Santa Fe's CE-9
> class rebuilt caboose 999551 in the BLUE paint
> scheme.

The "splash o' blue" Ellington is talking about in the photo caption on page 99 of the third revision of Caboose Cars of the Santa Fe doesn't refer to the black and white photo of 999551.  It refers to the blue-colored axle generator on Ce-2 999453 in the color photo on that page.  As others have mentioned, 999551 appears to have worn Santa Fe's standard "road pool caboose" scheme: bright red with a yellow emblem and pinstripe.

Evan is correct. There were no blue cabooses unless one was temporarily painted that way for a special occasion, and I know of none.

Joe McMillan

Did Santa Fe have a Bi-centennial caboose? Bi-centennial baggage cars, engines, etc.

RS12394 Wrote:
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> Evan is correct. There were no blue cabooses
> unless one was temporarily painted that way for a
> special occasion, and I know of none.
>
> Joe McMillan

brc600 Wrote:

> Did Santa Fe have a Bi-centennial caboose?

Not that I've seen.

Much thanks to Evan and Joe (MR. SANTA FE) for "straightning me out".