The "Bookend"/blue dip scheme would be the freight contemporary of the small lettered warbonnet, although the FPs had the cigar band style logo on the nose rather than the square circle cross.
@Hot Water posted:For what it's worth, the Amtrak SDP40F is quite a bit different, not only being a "Dash 2" series with the HTC 3 axle truck (different than the F45 & FP45 trucks), but also there were no steps & hand railings in the front.
Yes, I know they're not identical, but we're in the ballpark here. Trucks would exist in Scott's parts bin from the SD40-2 project, and if he does Tunnel Motors he also has a frame with the right wheelbase. Its not too much of a stretch to make the locomotives for the otherwise somewhat orphaned El Cap sets.
3 phases of Amtrak, ATSF, ATSF Maersk special paint job, and one was an EMD test bed in blue and white. There's some opportunity here to share parts.
