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

Russo,

I like your style! I agree with your ideas for restoring the various engines to some of the older eras.

I love your statement:
"History isn't just 1930 or 1940, history is anything that happened yesterday."

It seems that the "only" look recreated for the photo charters is a filthy dirty black engine with flying Rio Grande...and that to me, is starting to get a bit tiring.

I guess it's because most of the folks still around who actually saw the NG in operation remember it that way.

I would like to see the earlier time period when the NG was prosperous and bustling and well maintained. When it was truly the connection to the outside world, passengers filled revenue trains, and jobs were plenty, not the last struggling years when revenue was few and layoffs were plenty.

I was on all 3 days of trips with 315 in September, and it looked great!

A green boiler on a clean engine and DENVER & RIO GRANDE WESTERN on the tender would be a real eye catcher.

Oh, one more thing. I like your idea of trying to get a K-28, but don't ya think getting the 473 will be kinda tough..? Seems she is the "pet" engine of the D&S, with all her war stories and paint schemes, just as much as 483 is the "pet" of the C&T.