A dashing young 9

Who doesn't love a WarBonnet?

I dont for one thing i thing its the Color scheme of the US really when i see it

I love um, in fact, I drool over um when they look as nice as that one does

Why are they called warbonnets?

Santa Fe emphasized (exploited?) its proximity to the southwest and its native peoples heavily in its marketing, from passenger train names (Chief, Scout) to passenger car names (Cochiti, Taos, Navajo, Acoma) to mission style depot architecture, to an Indian boy mascot named Chico. When Santa Fe rolled out the new streamlined Super Chief in 1937, powered by EMD's new slant-nosed E-units, a designer at EMD named Leland Knickerbocker came up with the famous red and silver scheme with the idea that the locomotive in profile would look like a stylized Indian warrior with a headdress, or "war bonnet." The elongated Santa Fe emblem was the mouth, the headlight was the nose, the windshields were the eyes, and the S-curve behind the cab was the warbonnet. Even on the angular contours of a GE Dash-9, the scheme still works more or less as Knickerbocker intended.

One of the most beautiful of all loco. color schemes. Course, I'm a bit prejudiced.