I certainly do! I need them for my Rio Grande Zephyr, and I'm sure many of you need piles of them for your own needs. I reached out to Broadway Limited and asked (begged) for them to do F9s, and received a reply that they are working on the design. It's early in the stages, and there's no date set, so it'll be late 2024 at the earliest before we see anything. I figure a 2025 release, but start saving yer shekels now!! Here's the one I want most, with my son and I photobombing it.
Maybe Kato will do them for the upcoming NCL release? (disclaimer: there is no known upcoming NCL release)
Thanks! It was hot as blazes that day, something like 95° or something. Rozy cheeks weren't for nothing!
How did you like the museum in Golden? I love that place. They have lots of cool cars and engines and the round house is cool to watch.
Beautiful covered wagon! Apparently NP had the largest roster of these units, 30 As and 30 Bs. I love CRRM! It's a great place to absorb railroad history. So much to get lost in, the displays are nice, and the gift shop bookstore is chock full of great books. I'm biased, as D&RGW is my fav road, but the bookstore has lots of coverage of other western and eastern roads. The narrow gauge equipment gets run periodically, as seen in this album by a fellow fan, Erik Lindgren: https://www.flickr.com/photos/156831486@N07/albums/72157709294941452
I am from NM and have been up to Durango many many times and rode that train, best ride ever. my last two trip we did the last car with fancy tables and stuff, id fun i have also traversed a bunch of the old mine trails up around silverton as well in my jeep wonderful place.
LOL Doug, now there's a toy for you. I'm wondering what comment to make?? At least you have a model of the only Blue Bonnet F type unit. Dig the picture provided by Point353. Cajon Summit! Incidentally, on this subject of F type units. I was told Santa Fe never ordered any F9's or FP9's. Possibly a early VCR tape production of the Santa Fe. Where they didn't get it right. Leaving me to believe they never had any F9's. What I do know. They had the original FT's in the Cat Whisker livery. F3's in the red and silver War Bonnet livery, mainly to pull passenger trains. A final order of F7's in the Cigar Band livery to pull freight trains. If Santa Fe had F9's they would of been FP9's with the water boiler on the rear and in the War Bonnet livery. Or so I thought. Okay, that may not be right. Standing corrected: After a little research see the link below you will find F9's in the Cigar Band Livery in the number as indicated in Point353's picture. There's more: Scroll down to the Freight Livery. To get it right see: For further clarification of Passenger Power and Freight Power https://www.thedieselshop.us/ATSF.HTML While I'm at it. Someone told me that Santa Fe never owned any GP9's. Check the roster. You'll find them. Rumors, rumors and miss-information has always been a problem. Impressions left for me to sort out as a member of a family of Santa Fe Railroad Employees.
Oh yes, almost forgot. What I'm looking for is an ABBA set of Southern Pacific FP9's with the boiler package in the BB's. Did I say that right? I might add in the Black Widow livery. I have some SP Passenger trains that need some diseaels to pull them. For example: The San Joaquin Daylight. And/or some FP9's in the Union Pacific livery. You can't find passenger F types with the boiler package. How can you pull passenger trains without them?
