Re: Last time "#478" was in Chama ... 
| July 06, 2015 02:05PM |
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rehunn Wrote (sort of):
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> That's hideous! Next someone will want
> to paint the boiler green. Instead of the
> #463 Charter think I'll save up my money
> so I can chase the truck with the 478!!
You think that's bad, Rich -
Check this out! Ernie Robart's photo of "Union Pacific #478" in Chama on 10/09/68, on her way east to Alamosa for shopping after starring in 'Butch & Sundance', seen here swapping yarns with "Grand Mountain RR #577", the diamond-stacked star of 'Good Guys & Bad Guys'.
Photo Copyright © 1968, 2013 by Ernest W. Robart - ALL Rights Reserved.
Two months later Ernie caught the same two engines, now wearing their proper identification as D&RGW #473 and #483, respectively, as they were being serviced on the morning of 12/06/68.
Photo Copyright © 1968, 2013 by Ernest W. Robart - ALL Rights Reserved.
#473 pulled #481 and several carloads of locomotive parts and supplies west to Durango, while #483 and a caboose returned to Alamosa - the very last D&RGW operation over Cumbres Pass.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> That's hideous! Next someone will want
> to paint the boiler green. Instead of the
> #463 Charter think I'll save up my money
> so I can chase the truck with the 478!!
You think that's bad, Rich -
Check this out! Ernie Robart's photo of "Union Pacific #478" in Chama on 10/09/68, on her way east to Alamosa for shopping after starring in 'Butch & Sundance', seen here swapping yarns with "Grand Mountain RR #577", the diamond-stacked star of 'Good Guys & Bad Guys'.
Photo Copyright © 1968, 2013 by Ernest W. Robart - ALL Rights Reserved.
Two months later Ernie caught the same two engines, now wearing their proper identification as D&RGW #473 and #483, respectively, as they were being serviced on the morning of 12/06/68.
Photo Copyright © 1968, 2013 by Ernest W. Robart - ALL Rights Reserved.
#473 pulled #481 and several carloads of locomotive parts and supplies west to Durango, while #483 and a caboose returned to Alamosa - the very last D&RGW operation over Cumbres Pass.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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