Re: Two New Grants - and #483, #492 & #497

Hi, again -

What better way to recover from a cold than to breathe in some steam from the NGDF - it sure beats watching the &^(#$@)! telly all day!

I vaguely remember reading here, probably more than two years ago, that the use of color on the n.g. tender logos started in Salida, with either red or blue (I don't remember which), and then the Alamosa shops responded by using the opposite. So mayber there weren't tri-color logos, just white with red on a few engines and white with blue on a couple of others - or vice-versa.

I wasn't there in those days, and am trusting that those who were are reporting what they saw. If their memories are no better than mine, then there's no telling what things were really like other than what can be interpreted from b&w film.

But if the RMRRC had D&RGW #499, and later #489, painted green then that is a historic precedent for green paint on C&TS #489. History isn't just 1930 or 1940, history is anything that happened yesterday (or even an hour ago).

IMHO, since the Commission recognizes that increased ridership means increased funding for restoration and since the marketing department believes that more colorful trains will increase ridership, then it might be better to paint one or two locomotives in colors that POSSIBLY were used by the D&RGW in the twenties, thirties or forties than to paint coaches in colors that clearly were NEVER used by the D&RGW.
But a scratch-built parlour-caboose, painted purple with yellow polka-dots - now THAT has possibilities!!

- Russ



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/14/2007 01:21AM by Russo Loco.