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Nostalgia & History > F-unit Friday: another Warbonnet in freight serviceDate: 01/10/25 05:36 F-unit Friday: another Warbonnet in freight service Author: santafe199 The passenger train glory days are long gone for this old veteran. It will see freight service only for the rest of its days.
1. AT&SF 20C sits in Superior, NE on March 20, 1970. Original Kodachrome trader slide by Richard Kistler, via John LaGesse. Thanks for looking back! Lance Garrels santafe199  Date: 01/10/25 06:31 Re: F-unit Friday: another Warbonnet in freight service Author: AndyBrown Still looks great, even with green paint on the nose! Being an IH fan I like the cornpicker in the background too.
Andy Date: 01/10/25 06:39 Re: F-unit Friday: another Warbonnet in freight service Author: jgilmore Nice view, looking like its worked in freight service and maybe also "bombed" by a pteradactyl...
JG Date: 01/10/25 06:40 Re: F-unit Friday: another Warbonnet in freight service Author: santafe199 AndyBrown Wrote: > ... even with green paint on the nose!
Yeah, there's gotta be some kind of story behind that creative splotch-work... ;^) Lance Date: 01/10/25 06:52 Re: F-unit Friday: another Warbonnet in freight service Author: Evan_Werkema Retired September 1971 and rebuilt into CF7 (no, not "CF3") 2628 in March 1972. It was traded in to GE after just 12 years but then sold to Blue Mountain and Reading, who peddled it to Maryland & Delaware. Under that nameplate, it did run at least one passenger excursion:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/d_blair/2914319610/ Don't know it the unit is still around or not. Date: 01/10/25 08:31 Re: F-unit Friday: another Warbonnet in freight service Author: Gonut1 Hit a low flying bucket of green paint.
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