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Santa Fe's
300- & 325-class Yellowbonnets
and 325-class Bluebonnets.
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Yellowbonnets:
The yellowbonnet is based on not painting the red warbonnet after painting the yellow.  It still retains the black stripe separating the yellow from the stainless/aluminum, and the silver understripe that runs along the bottom rivet strip.  Check out Ralph Back's article, A Yellowbonnet in Texas for more information and photos.

Passenger-flavored units (based on the silver trucks and ends).

[yb1] silver trucks, underframe, ends & pilot, all-yellow nose with full, solid blue cigar band.

cabs:		boosters:
304	315	319B/345B

Freight-flavored units (based on the black trucks and blue [or black?] ends.

[yb]Freight-flavored yellowbonnet units all have black trucks, underframe & pilot, and blue [or black] ends.
These are units with unknown additional details:

[yb] Cabs:
331(2nd)	345	345C

If you have documentation on any of these, or any to add to the lists here, email me so I can update this page.
 

[yb2] Cabs with all-yellow nose & hollow cigar band:
330[a]	346	347C[a]

[yb3] Cabs with partial nose stripe & hollow cigar band:
326[a]	328	339[a,d]

[yb4] Cabs with full cigar band:
333[b]	334[c]	340[c]	341[a][c]	344[c]

Notes:
^[a] Yellow understripe between anticlimber and cab steps.
^[b] No nose stripe.
^[c] Full nose stripe.
^[d] Where's the dynamic?

Boosters in this class are pretty much the same as far as paint is concerned--black trucks & underframe, blue [or black?] ends.

[yb] Boosters:
345A	348A	349A	362B[e]

Notes:
^[e]Sure looks like black ends in this photo.

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Bluebonnets:
[bb] The bluebonnet is based on painting Santa Fe blue where the red & silver warbonnets have the red.  Most units have the yellow and its black stripe the same as the red warbonnet units. An exception is the 343, which is missing the black stripe.  These units have black trucks, underframe & pilot, blue ends & anticlimber, full silver understripe, full yellow nose stripe with two vertical blue stripes between headlights & full cigar band, except as noted.

cabs:							boosters:
325[1,2]	327	329	332	335[3]	338	343[1,2,4,5]	326A	329B	331A	341A

Notes:
^[1] Blue understripe between anticlimber and cab steps.
^[2] No blue stripes between headlights.
^[3] Yellow anticlimber & rooftop grabs.
^[4] Nose stripe missing below cigar band.
^[5] No black stripe.
Click here for more photos of 335 (listed as 235 weed sprayer), including cab interior shots, but no rear end.
Click here and scroll down for a b&w photo of 329.

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