Re: OY and 3 Engine snow train on C&TS

Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> This is the 1997 rotary since it had the 3 Rio
> Grande engines for our charter a few days later.
> 488 has C&TS lettering, and we swapped with the
> 484 tender which was not opertional at that time,
> but had been used in the fall charters by John
> Craft. The last year the OY ran with redish brown
> paint was 1995 I believe.
> Williams shot is no doubt by John Norwood or
> someone else who worked for the railroad.
> Richardson probably got the shot from them for his
> collection. I doubt Bob made that trip.
> Greg

OY is still red, so it is pre-1997. Craft's thing was in 1992.

With 3 490's pushing the OM in the above shot, my guess is it was taken in 1952.