Re: #489 on 09/1-6/20 & 05/21/25. (Links May contain 'Circus Colors') . . .

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Bill Scobie Wrote (approximately)*:
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> > Great looking green engine, Roosso!
> > Too bad we can't do it again.
>
>
> Actually, maybe we (or at least you) could Bill -
>
> Although not this year, when – IF she's up
> and running again in time – IMHO #489 should
> be painted up as #483 for at least the week of
> September 1-6 so she can re-create the very first
> six days of C&TS operations on the EXACT (day AND
> date) Fiftieth Anniversaries thereof.  See
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> et seq – especially
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 97005 and
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 97028 –
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 97328 for further information.
>
> 2025 is another story, though — May 21
> that year will be the 75^th
> ANNIVERSARY of #489's first appearance in Moffat
> Green: a Rocky Mountain RR Club excursion from
> Salida to Monarch and then down the Valley Line as
> far as the wye at Villa Grove (see
> [ngdiscussion.net]
> 39248 for Donald Hills' photo of this train
> crossing the trestle at Mears Junction).  May
> 21, 2025 will be a Wednesday, so maybe you'd
> rather wait 'til Saturday, May 24, for your
> excursion (which is likely to be the C&TS' Opening
> Day), or maybe May 25 - the anniversary of our
> 2010 'Springtime in the Rockies' charter, which
> would allow Saturday and Monday (the latter being
> Memorial Day) for travel to Antonito from and back
> to the Denver or Albuquerque depots of the U.P and
> BNSF, respectively.
>
> - El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y
> Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y
> Verdes,
> aka Der Grossväterlich
> DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHaben
> der
>
> *  As with another of Bill's posts, I have
> translated his message from Canadian to American
> "English" . . .


Sorry Roosso but my drivers have flat spots on them and I need new brass in my main rods. But I would love to do it again it was a good fun time.

Bill.

from up north.