Re: Random Fuzzy Photos #35

IMHO, it looked GREAT, Earl -

That style of lettering, with "&" instead of "AND" and "R.R." instead of "RAILROAD" allowed larger and more legible lettering than the fully-spelled-out version to fit on the tenders.  IIRC, it was 6" tall vs the 4" of Ernie's original stencil, and along with the tri-color herald it has always been my favorite for the C&TS engines — as seen in this Scott Turner photo:

Photo copyright © 1979, 2004 by Scott Turner - All Rights Reserved.

In late August 2010, #488 was still wearing a flying Rio Grande logo on her tender from a year or two earlier, so Alan Loomis allowed us to paint over it and apply a press-on vinyl version of your 6" style, along with a four-color "40th Anniversary" herald:


The heralds were magnetic – not press-on – and I didn't take the time to cut holes so they would fit tight over the rivets; as a result one of them was blown off somewhere between Osier and Antonito . . .    

We had tried one of them on Goose #5 earlier that morning :


. . . and a day or two later applied the remaining one to Roger's "Camo-Mobile":


. . . which not only scared away Roger's quarry, but presented a real dilemma as to what the "40 Years" referred to — certainly not the car, which was much younger, but also nowhere near as old as Mr. Wigwam was at the time . . .    

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



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/10/2019 04:51PM by Russo Loco.