Re: More ideas for C&TS 50th
| September 29, 2019 02:50PM |
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Rich Murray Wrote:
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> . . . Since a faux 483 has been done before
> (2010, 40th) it could be done again . . .
Are you SURE you're up to it, Rich? We ne'er-do-wells took a LOT of heat for giving #487 the 483 Hollyweird "Beauty Treatment" in late August, 2010:
> . . . but I don't know about those rider boxes . . .
Not to worry, Rich -
The prototype rider box wasn't built 'til the Spring of '71:
Photo copyright © 1971, 2011 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
. . . and IIRC they weren't in service 'til late summer. Here's #483 after being shopped & repainted – but not completely – with a string of 'em on Labor Day Weekend 1971, a few weeks after #484 pulled the C&TS' first revenue passenger train.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
p.s. For more photos of #487's embarrassing stint as grotesquefied #483 circa September, 1970, see [ngdiscussion.net] et seq.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/02/2019 12:58PM by Russo Loco.
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> . . . Since a faux 483 has been done before
> (2010, 40th) it could be done again . . .
Are you SURE you're up to it, Rich? We ne'er-do-wells took a LOT of heat for giving #487 the 483 Hollyweird "Beauty Treatment" in late August, 2010:
> . . . but I don't know about those rider boxes . . .
Not to worry, Rich -
The prototype rider box wasn't built 'til the Spring of '71:
Photo copyright © 1971, 2011 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
. . . and IIRC they weren't in service 'til late summer. Here's #483 after being shopped & repainted – but not completely – with a string of 'em on Labor Day Weekend 1971, a few weeks after #484 pulled the C&TS' first revenue passenger train.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
p.s. For more photos of #487's embarrassing stint as grotesquefied #483 circa September, 1970, see [ngdiscussion.net] et seq.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/02/2019 12:58PM by Russo Loco.
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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