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lettering for Santa Fe’s Fe-24 1947-54 “Chief” for gen. freight service: white lettering on mineral brown car

Part Number: ATSF Fe-24n

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Built in December 1941 and early 1942, Pressed Steel delivered 500 fifty-foot cars to the Santa Fe under Lot number 5676. As-delivered road numbers as Series 10000-10499, and assigned into general freight service. Of this group 300 cars were selected for high-speed passenger express service and fitted with steam lines and Allied Full-Cushion high speed trucks, painted in coach green, renumbered into series 4100-4399, and lettered in DULUX yellow as express cars and dedicated to passenger service.

The remaining 200 cars of this group - Series 10300-10499, retained their as-delivered freight service ATSF Mineral Brown paint with all white stenciling.

Paint & Lettering: Cars, underbodies and truck sideframes were painted ATSF Mineral Brown: TCP-19, a dark freight car brown up until late 1945, then a medium red/brown beginning in 1949: TCP-188. Both shades can be modified with a drop of TP-179 gray to replicate normal oxidation. Lettering in all white stencil paste. Periods in reporting marks were dropped in repainted cars. Black anti-slip compound applied to the steel roofs. (By 1947, the repainted cars had anti-slip compound applied to the roofs that was also mineral brown)

Note: For 50’ cars using the 1947 lettering scheme, the Santa Fe’s mechanical department dropped the larger and longer (16‘) stencils and. beginning in 1947, when the Ship and Travel and later slogan scheme was applied, the new 1947 slogans were not resized, but used the 40’ boxcar size stencils on 50’ cars.

In the spring of 1947, the four remaining slogans: Grand Canyon Line, El Capitan. Super Chief and Chief (Scout having been dropped in 1946) were revised in style for the Series 10300-10499 that remained in freight service. At the same time the map was replaced with “Ship & Travel Santa Fe All the Way” on the right side. In 1948, a fifth slogan was added advertising the new Texas Chief, and in 1954, a sixth, the new San Francisco Chief.

(Unfortunately, in the post-1947 scheme, there is no systematic record of which slogans went with which car numbers. Richard Hendrickson)

Decal set designed and created at Protocraft Decals
Printed by Microscale Industries



Background color shown above is not included in decal sheet




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