Jeff...You are certainly correct about the ATSF U-33C's being in blue/yellow.  
The Santa Fe did, however, have other GE U Boats in the war bonnet scheme.  
Maybe the powers that be saw a photo of one of them and got inspired.  Who 
knows. 

The ATSF U-28CG's were delivered in red/silver and ran on major name trains.  
They were numbered in the 350 series.  The rather odd looking U-30CG's were, 
likewise, delivered in red/silver.  Those were the U Boats with the car body 
enclosed in what always looked to me like leftover corrugated metal siding.  
They were numbered in the 400 series.  The U-28CG's and the U-30CG's often 
operated together.

The U-28CG's were renumbered into the 7900 series in 1969 and I was able to 
photograph the #7902 in Kansas City that year.  The U-30CG's even migrated to 
San Diegan service during 1968-69.

While not prototypically correct, I'll bet that a red/silver U-33C would sell 
well.

Bob Hogan  

--- In [email protected], Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote:
>
> If my memory serves me correctly, Red Caboose created a beautiful 0 
> scale (2 rail) Gp-9 in the silver/red warbonnet scheme.  I haven't heard 
> from Bill McClung on this list for awhile so I don't know if it was a 
> successful product.  However, Red Caboose was generally noted for 
> accurately painted models perhaps with this one exception.
> 
> Bob Werre
>




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