Re: U.P. #478 meets the Scarlet Harlot ... 
| May 19, 2013 02:47PM |
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch roundhouse in Durango -
D&RGW #473, dressed up as U.P. #478 for her role in 'Botch Casually and the SomeDunce Kid' 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' was poking her nose out the door the same morning that GMRRL #550 was being readied for her journey to Chama - 09/16/68. All of the following pics are Copyright © 1968 & 2013 by Ernest W. Robart:
Three weeks later - having finished her movie work - "U.P. #478" arrived in Chama on October 9 without the phony 'Congdon' stack and acetylene headlight that had been applied for 'Butch & Sundance':
D&RGW #473 was en route to Alamosa, where she would be the last D&RGW engine to be shopped before the abandonment of the "Main Line" to Durango and the Farmington Branch:
Here the two rival 'movie queens', "GMRRL #577" (D&RGW #483) and "U.P. #478" (D&RGW #473) face off outside the Chama enginehouse on 10/09/68:
Is that a patch of genuine D&RGW 'Dark Olive Green Boiler Jacket Enamel' on U.P. #478's tender, or just plain old Pullman Green? Only the 'Scarlet Harlot' really knows ...
"U.P. #478" departed for Alamosa the next day, while "GMRRL #577" had a few more days of work on "GG&BG" before returning to Durango. The diamond stack was removed from #483, and the extended movie pilot replaced with a snowplow before she pulled the NPS Special from Durango to Alamosa on November 24th. On December 5, 1968, #473 and #483 pulled a "hospital train" from Alamosa to Chama. #481 was pulled dead in train, with three passenger cars from the NPS special, three(?) carloads of locomotive parts and four empty boxcars for added brakes, Cumbres to Chama. The next day #473 continued on to Durango with the train, while #483 and two of the three cabooses returned to Alamosa - the very last D&RGW movement over Cumbres Pass.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/12/2019 05:17PM by Russo Loco.
D&RGW #473, dressed up as U.P. #478 for her role in '
Three weeks later - having finished her movie work - "U.P. #478" arrived in Chama on October 9 without the phony 'Congdon' stack and acetylene headlight that had been applied for 'Butch & Sundance':
D&RGW #473 was en route to Alamosa, where she would be the last D&RGW engine to be shopped before the abandonment of the "Main Line" to Durango and the Farmington Branch:
Here the two rival 'movie queens', "GMRRL #577" (D&RGW #483) and "U.P. #478" (D&RGW #473) face off outside the Chama enginehouse on 10/09/68:
Is that a patch of genuine D&RGW 'Dark Olive Green Boiler Jacket Enamel' on U.P. #478's tender, or just plain old Pullman Green? Only the 'Scarlet Harlot' really knows ...
"U.P. #478" departed for Alamosa the next day, while "GMRRL #577" had a few more days of work on "GG&BG" before returning to Durango. The diamond stack was removed from #483, and the extended movie pilot replaced with a snowplow before she pulled the NPS Special from Durango to Alamosa on November 24th. On December 5, 1968, #473 and #483 pulled a "hospital train" from Alamosa to Chama. #481 was pulled dead in train, with three passenger cars from the NPS special, three(?) carloads of locomotive parts and four empty boxcars for added brakes, Cumbres to Chama. The next day #473 continued on to Durango with the train, while #483 and two of the three cabooses returned to Alamosa - the very last D&RGW movement over Cumbres Pass.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/12/2019 05:17PM by Russo Loco.
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