Only one 200 class F7A is known to have received the yellow warbonnet paint scheme (number 271C) although a number of B-units received it. 271C was destroyed in a head-on collision in Texas in late 973 about 18 months after it had received its yellow warbonnet paint. B-units were all blue with a wide yellow stripe at the bottom of the carbodv and had no Santa Fe name, making them very plain looking. The few boosters in the 260 through 267 numbers with chicken wire" screens were even more plain since they aid not have the stainless steel grilles to give them some contrast to the blue of the upper carbody. No 200 class units were saved. They were all scrapped, traded in, or rebuilt into CF-7’s.

As for modeling the 200 class, at this writing only the Athearn single headlight F7A and their F7B are useful for a Santa Fe freight F7 without much modification other than a paint job and application of details. Except for the steam generator fittings, Athearn’s model is correct for modeling units 202LABC through 258LABC. The single headlight F7A is available only in undecorated form, it is not offered factory painted for Santa Fe. Athearn once offered their dual headlight F7A plus the F7B in a mid-1950’s Santa Fe freight scheme, but the paint contours on the nose and cab roof were highly inaccurate and removal of the lower headlight, steam generator fittings and a new paint job would be advisable. Prior to the Athearn F7 in Santa Fe freight colors, Globe Models produced a single headlight F7 in Santa Fe freight colors. It was essentially the same model as the Athearn with he same inaccurate paint job. That the A-unit had a single head light makes it correct for a 200, but a repaint of the model would still be in order.