Re: TRAINS Mag doing 50th Anniversary Commemoration of Last N. G. Freights
| February 08, 2018 10:53AM |
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trainrider47 Wrote:
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> Russ, if the all boxcar photo you have above is
> the last train, I count 14, not 17 box cars.
You're right, Micheal. The brain farts affecting three of my posts above have been corrected . . .
> There is only one stealth rider car. There was
> going to be a second one but the RR hijacked
> the rebuild to have another standard box for
> storage. If it's finished, it could be added to
> the consist, but you still need to somehow ac-
> commodate 80 people. That means outfit cars
> and plenty [of] rider gons.
I'm not among the official planners, Michael -
Just a gadfly contributing memories, a few photos, and nostalgic encouragement to the commemoration of an historic event. SFAIK it's going to be much more a commemoration than a re-enactment, although – as I've pointed out – re-enactment of the front half of the westbound train shouldn't be too difficult. Getting good Phraud-O-Graphs® of the train will be another challenge, though, as trees close to the r.o.w. have grown A LOT in the intervening 50 years (see [ngdiscussion.net]), not to mention the much-improved but no longer histœrical well-ballasted roadbed . . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 02/08/2018 11:09AM by Russo Loco.
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> Russ, if the all boxcar photo you have above is
> the last train, I count 14, not 17 box cars.
You're right, Micheal. The brain farts affecting three of my posts above have been corrected . . .
> There is only one stealth rider car. There was
> going to be a second one but the RR hijacked
> the rebuild to have another standard box for
> storage. If it's finished, it could be added to
> the consist, but you still need to somehow ac-
> commodate 80 people. That means outfit cars
> and plenty [of] rider gons.
I'm not among the official planners, Michael -
Just a gadfly contributing memories, a few photos, and nostalgic encouragement to the commemoration of an historic event. SFAIK it's going to be much more a commemoration than a re-enactment, although – as I've pointed out – re-enactment of the front half of the westbound train shouldn't be too difficult. Getting good Phraud-O-Graphs® of the train will be another challenge, though, as trees close to the r.o.w. have grown A LOT in the intervening 50 years (see [ngdiscussion.net]), not to mention the much-improved but no longer histœrical well-ballasted roadbed . . .
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 02/08/2018 11:09AM by Russo Loco.
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