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Description: The Santa Fe Railroad had some of the most iconic paint schemes ever designed for locomotives. In this video, we will look at a well known Santa Fe paint scheme that was applied to locomotives as early as circa 1975. Often called Freightbonnet, yellow bonnet, and sometimes bluebonnet, this was the standard freight locomotive livery Santa Fe adopted in the mid 1970s, following a several year long period of experimenting with various different schemes. For nearly a decade and a half, this was the only livery used by the Santa Fe, aside from the experimental SPSF merger scheme. Among the last locomotives delivered new to the Santa Fe in this scheme were the 40 EMD GP60 units purchased by the railroad in 1989. Today, just about all of these locomotives still carry this paint scheme as they continue to work for the BNSF Railway. One of these locomotives, BNSF number 181, was assigned to the Pacific Northwest pool of locomotives. In late 2020 and through most of 2021, the locomotive was based out of BNSF’s Delta Yard in Everett, Washington and saw use on manifest mixed freight and local trains on the Bellingham Subdivision. Let’s travel to the Bellingham Subdivision to see the 181 pulling manifest freight trains in between Everett and Custer as well as up to Sumas, Washington on the Sumas Branch line. CoasterFan2105 is the home of all sorts of train and railroad related video content. Stop by every Friday at 9 AM Pacific time for an all new railroading adventure and be sure to check out all of my social media pages @coasterfan2105 for even more great railroad content. Thanks, and I'll see you down the line!