Re: Grubby #493 at Low-Bah-Toe, 1967

Right on all counts, Earl -

Here's #493 more than a decade later crossing the trestle with a westbound freight.  She doesn't look quite as grubby as in the '56 shot, but maybe that's because her smokebox has been covered with aluminium paint:


. . . instead of with graphite & oil, as in these photos taken approaching and in Monero (Moan-Air-Owe) on St. Paddy's Day, 1964:

Photo Copyright © 1964, 1999 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.


Photo Copyright © 1964, 1999 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.

. . . and the following day in The Narrows and on the big fill at Lake Low-Bah-Toe:

Photo Copyright © 1964, 1999 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.


Photo Copyright © 1964, 1999 by Tom Gildersleeve - All Rights Reserved.

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender

p.s.  The fireman's bright red hat in the last photo above was probably the inspiration for the sombrero that Tom was wearing when several of us curmudgeons descended on the Virginia & Truckee back in February, 2012 — see [ngdiscussion.net] et seq.



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