Santa Fe F7 Warbonnet and the SF F7 Fleet (MOC)

[DMRR WOLFE]

 I finished my Santa Fe F7 Warbonnet last night so now the fleet is complete! Phew! On to instructions and finalizing graphics!!

Funny thing I just discovered too... the "Super Chief" was actually the name of the train that ran from Chicago to California and not the name applied to the "Warbonnet" locomotives! 

Did Lego get this wrong? Have I been horribly misled by Lego all these years? What's next? Is the Winter Village NOT really modelled after the actual village at the North Pole?

So, does anyone know why Lego called set 10020 the "Super Chief" and labelled the coaches "Santa Fe...?"

Thanks! DMRR Wolfe

more images on my public Flickr photostream:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/194135750@N08/

 

[JopieK]

Again very nice job(s) @DMRR WOLFE. I like all the different schemes. With newer parts and a little width increase a great train becomes fabulous. LEGO is never too clear on how they come up with these things. It was an 'Icon' made for the US market. I got one so they were sometimes sold in the EU but they were hard to find (especially because there were no official LEGO stores back in those days of course). There is even a limited edition and there used to be a register of the people owning the limited version at lugnet.

Apart from that, could you please try to keep things together and not flood Train Tech (Thanks!)

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Fantastic model ...the b-unit is also perfect!

[DMRR WOLFE]

O.K. Gotcha. 

Edited April 13, 2023 by DMRR WOLFE
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[Hechristensen]

The holy grail....!!! 

When will the instructions come out...?

[JHS_NL]

Great! Do these use parts that are hard to come by? I mean like the original Lego version with some parts.

[pankaj_agarwal]

Hi Wolfe,

I was seeing your EMD F7 & F8 Santa Fe. I was planning to build one and would it be possible for you to either share me the XML list and building instructions or point me to the rebrickable link where I can have a look.