Here are some of the resulting tomatoes and maybe out there someone can resolve my confusion:
From my reading, Hi Beta crossed with a red tomato should have given me orange-red and that's what I got crossing w/ Jaune Flammee (when you read about JF it is quite high in Beta carotene and still pretty high in lycopene).
I crossing with 97L97, I expected the same. I didn't get that. All the plants from those crosses came out orange (in fact very close to my final goal for the OP in the F1). I'm sure the cross was successful because the plants are indeterminate (97L97 is determinate, and the fruits were more pointed than 97L97 (which is oval)).
As I stated crosses between Jaune Flammee and pastes came out pretty much as suspected. Their shapes are between the pastes and the oblate JF, and though the pictures look red, they are an orange-red. Athough the somewhat thick fleshed they are "wet"
JF X Opalka and Opalka X JF:
Exterior:
JFxOPOPXJFPict2.jpg
Interior:
JFXOpOpXJFPict2Inter.jpg
JFXOpInter.jpg
JF X Shannon and Heidi X Unknown (I'm 90% certain it was JF):
Exterior:
JFXShanHeidiXUnK.jpg
Interior:
JFXShanHeidiXUnKInter.jpg
JF X Shannon(repeat) and
JF X Heidi:
Exterior:
JFXShanJFXHeidi.jpg
Interior:
JFXShanJFxHeidiInter.jpg
Now for the 97L97 cross (Not showing the 97L97 cross w/ Heidi):
It is orange (as noted) and were quite dry and had fairly thick flesh:
97L97 X Opalka:
Exterior:
97L97XOpPict2.jpg
Interior:
97L97XOpInterPict2.jpg