#489's Season in Green - It's a GO!! 
| July 25, 2009 10:36PM |
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THANK YOU, My Fellow Greenies -
Because of the enthusiastic support of those listed below, locomotive #489
WILL be wearing an authentic D&RGW Dark Olive Green boiler jacket for the
entire 2010 Season!!
She will be painted in time for the C&TS to use her on Opening Day, May 22, should the railroad decide to do so. Arrangements for her to pull a photographers' special on May 25, in commemoration of her Rocky Mountain RR Club excursion in May, 1950, have been finalized except for some very minor details.
Because the cost of painting the locomotive is expected to be much less than anticipated, my share of the pledged amount has been used as a down-payment to ensure operation of the above-mentioned excursion. Details of "Springtime in the Rockies" have been posted on the C&TS special events page.
- Russ Sperry, aka Russo de los Locos Verdes
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Those listed below are eligible for a discount on the expected fare for the May 25 excursion, which will be strictly limited to fifty (50) passengers - caboose seats for $250 (4 seats still available as of 04/06) and rider boxcar seats for $215 (15 seats still available).
Donors listed below please contact me via p.m. to make arrangements for a discount on your ticket for the May 25 excursion.
Those pledging to help fund #489's Season in Green, May-October 2010, as of 6:15 pm PST on March 8, 2010, are:
0001 - Jerry Day
0002 - Cody Akin
0003 - Casey Akin
0004 - Brian Drew
0005 - Rich Murray
0006 - Nathan Zachman
0007 - Warren Erdman
0008 - Bill Scobie
0009 - Chris King
0010 - Daniel Sheffer
0011 - Wayne Hills
0012 - Jason Rose
0013 - Andrew Brandon
0014 - Bob Farmer
0015 - Chris King (again)
0016 - Ron Burkhard
0017 - Bill Gould
0018 - Urias von Meyenburg
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Pledges to date: . . . $1,250.00
Matching pledge:. . . $1,250.00
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Total pledged: . . . $2,500.00
PLEASE SEE [ngdiscussion.net], BELOW.
* IIRC, #489 is the ONLY K-36 so far proven to have had a green jacket while owned by the D&RGW.
See [ngdiscussion.net] and [ngdiscussion.net] for color photos of her taken May 21, 1950.
Edited 45 time(s). Last edit at 05/29/2010 07:35PM by Russo Loco.
Because of the enthusiastic support of those listed below, locomotive #489
WILL be wearing an authentic D&RGW Dark Olive Green boiler jacket for the
entire 2010 Season!!
She will be painted in time for the C&TS to use her on Opening Day, May 22, should the railroad decide to do so. Arrangements for her to pull a photographers' special on May 25, in commemoration of her Rocky Mountain RR Club excursion in May, 1950, have been finalized except for some very minor details.
Because the cost of painting the locomotive is expected to be much less than anticipated, my share of the pledged amount has been used as a down-payment to ensure operation of the above-mentioned excursion. Details of "Springtime in the Rockies" have been posted on the C&TS special events page.
- Russ Sperry, aka Russo de los Locos Verdes
*****
Those listed below are eligible for a discount on the expected fare for the May 25 excursion, which will be strictly limited to fifty (50) passengers - caboose seats for $250 (4 seats still available as of 04/06) and rider boxcar seats for $215 (15 seats still available).
Donors listed below please contact me via p.m. to make arrangements for a discount on your ticket for the May 25 excursion.
Those pledging to help fund #489's Season in Green, May-October 2010, as of 6:15 pm PST on March 8, 2010, are:
0001 - Jerry Day
0002 - Cody Akin
0003 - Casey Akin
0004 - Brian Drew
0005 - Rich Murray
0006 - Nathan Zachman
0007 - Warren Erdman
0008 - Bill Scobie
0009 - Chris King
0010 - Daniel Sheffer
0011 - Wayne Hills
0012 - Jason Rose
0013 - Andrew Brandon
0014 - Bob Farmer
0015 - Chris King (again)
0016 - Ron Burkhard
0017 - Bill Gould
0018 - Urias von Meyenburg
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Pledges to date: . . . $1,250.00
Matching pledge:. . . $1,250.00
=======================
Total pledged: . . . $2,500.00
* IIRC, #489 is the ONLY K-36 so far proven to have had a green jacket while owned by the D&RGW.
See [ngdiscussion.net] and [ngdiscussion.net] for color photos of her taken May 21, 1950.
Edited 45 time(s). Last edit at 05/29/2010 07:35PM by Russo Loco.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
The NGDF was started by Don Richter and is currently operated in his memory by Nathan Holmes and others. Others who have contributed to the upkeep of this board are (in no particular order): Charles McCandless, Everett Lueck, Ted Wilton, Cole Adams, James Bane, John Moellmer, Jon Bentz, Linn Moedinger, lloyd lehrer, Rod Jensen, John Craft, Steven Forney, Herb Kelsey, Bill Ramaley, Russ Sperry (El Russo Loco), Josh McNeal, John West, Jim Armstrong, Bob Bergstrom, Greg Scholl, Blake Forbes Doug van Veelen and Mark Fuller.