Re: Thick & thin parts - the Fours have it, by a nose . . .

John West Wrote:
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> Also I think the nose of the four needs to be
> a bit sharper.   Just nit picking.


Nit-picking is the hobgoblin of histœrical minds, John -

Or something to that effect – who knows?  Our good friend and fellow photo-histörian of the Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Ernie Robart has recently been sharing his treasure-trove of B&W negatives from 1968 with me, from which I have extracted the following confirmations of your above nit pick.  Here are the squared-off and slightly cupped noses of the fours as they appeared on the left side of K-28 #476 and right side of K-28 #478 respectively, on 04/23/68:

Photos copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.

Since replication of K-36 #483 as she appeared in late August of 1968 is scheduled to occur approximately seven weeks from now for the TRAINS charter on 08/25-26/18, and as it's likely her stunt double will be wearing her early September '70 Hollyweird movie makeup again in just over two years in celebration of the Fiftieth Birthday of the C&TS, IMHO her four's extremely pointy nose as it appeared on 07/18/68 warrants a photo all to itself:

Photo copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.

Since K-37 #493 is currently undergoing resurrection in Durango, the first of the following is also relevant these days.  Ernie hasn't yet sent a close-up side view of #498's cab, so this shot of her tender in the Chama engine house while she was undergoing some light repairs on 07/18/68 will have to suffice:

Photos copyright © 1968, 2018 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.

Of course the shape of a four-nose on a tender provides no more information as to the shape of the four-nose on the engineer's side of a cab than does the shape of the four-nose on the fireman's side.  Nor the thinness or thickness of the four's arms & legs, for that matter* . . .    

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender

p.s.  Hopefully neither you nor your fellow moderators will delete this post on account of it's photos are explicitly four-no-graphic.

*   A pointed fill-in-the-blank question:  If, as 'they' say, "fore-warned is fore-armed," then four-armed is ____________________ .



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/08/2018 09:03PM by Russo Loco.