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

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> 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:
> [attachment 47907 K-28-four-nose.jpg]
> 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:
> [attachment 47908 K-36-four-nose.jpg]
> 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:
> [attachment 47909 K-37-four-nose.jpg]
> 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
> DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHaben
> der
>
> 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
> ____________________ .

So, who 'nose what is the correct 'nose', I don't 'nose', but I think Russo's nose's win by a nose!

Nosey Wayne from SnOZ