Uncataloged RailKing O Gauge Santa Fe F-3 Released

December 27, 2019 - M.T.H. Electric Trains has released an exclusive RailKing O Gauge F-3 Diesel in Santa Fe "Black Bonnet" livery for M.T.H. Authorized Retailer Patrick's Trains in Wheeling, West Virginia. Featuring the classic lines of the Santa Fe War Bonnet but with black replacing the silver colors ensures that this F-3 is sure to turn heads on your model railroad. The locomotive is very limited in production and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Item No. 30-20690-1 Moron 40’ Box Car
Sale Price: $339.95

About the F-3 Diesel

When the prototype railroads began to dieselize in the 1940s, model train manufacturers soon followed, recognizing that boys wanted models of the newest trains they were seeing on real railroads. One of the initial toy train forays into dieseldom was a Lionel replica of the best-selling diesel of the day, the F3 "covered wagon" made by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors.

Recognizing that EMD and the railroads were anxious to publicize their modern motive power, General Motors, the Santa Fe Railroad, and the New York Central Railroad helped share the cost of dies for the original models in exchange for having their names on engines that appeared on virtually every boy's holiday wish list for years. In the end, it seems the Santa Fe got the best deal, as its red, yellow, and silver "warbonnet" F3s remained a popular fixture on model railroad locomotives longer than any other railroad livery.

To this day, the F3 diesels of the late 1940s and early 1950s are recognized as some of the best toys ever produced. Virtually full O gauge scale models, they were tremendously dependable, highly detailed for their time, and terrific pullers.

Did You Know?

In a December 1950 radio show, famed comedian Jack Benny wrote a letter to Dear Santa Fe, saying "Christmas is almost here and it would make me happy if you gave me a train." While the railroad did not give Benny the real train he asked for, its publicity department did send him a Lionel model of the F3.

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Patrick's Trains
142 29th Street
Wheeling, West Virginia 26003
(304) 232-0714
www.patstrains.com
patstrains@aol.com

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