Re: ONE green example - NOT a Grinch!

Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Hi, Scott -
>
> No, you can't be a Grinch - Grinches, IIRC, are
> GREEN!
>
> But you can continue to be the No-Nonsense
> Curmudgeon, and I will continue to be El
> Curmudgeono Loco, Viejo y Verde, and hopefully we
> will - unlike certain parties whose names I will
> not mention here - continue to respect one
> another's opinions and remain friends in spite of
> my rooting for one out of four or five C&TS
> engines to have a green jacket in 2008 and for (in
> your opinion) the wrong team in the Whirled
> Series.*
>
> My original Christmas wish was to have #483
> restored in time for a 40th Anniversary
> Celebration of the first C&TS train into Chama,
> and for her and sister #484 - the mainstays of
> C&TS operations in the early 1970s - to be given
> green jackets and the "classic" lettering scheme
> for the occasion. I sincerely - but incorrectly as
> it turns out - believed that Baldwin had delivered
> these two engines with green jackets, and that
> painting them in this fashion would be
> historically correct. As it now appears extremely
> unlikely that #483 will be operational by
> September, 2010 - or even by September, 2020 for a
> 50th Anniversary Celebration (which it's not very
> likely I'll be able to attend) - I've had to face
> reality. Since there is some evidence that #489's
> jacket was painted green for a short time around
> 1949 or 1950 (although with the 'flying' Rio
> Grande lettering), and since she is expected to
> return to service in 2008, she seems a much better
> candidate for an ex-Sperry-mental paint scheme
> during restoration. IMHO this should be based on
> D&RGW standard gauge passenger-engine styling of
> the 1930's, but with the tri-color "bug" logo, as
> illustrated by the doctored photo of #488 - which
> hopefully only a few extremists view as "circus
> colors".
>
> - Russo Loco
>
> * Instead of a dark green jacket, maybe #489
> should have bright red drivers and cab like #20 in
> "A Ticket to Tomahawk", in honor of the winning
> team ...
>
> p.s. As an old retiarded geezer, rattling cages on
> the NGDF is one of my principal forms of
> entertainment. It's WAY more fun than watching
> telly, but shouldn't be taken TOO seriously!
> Actually, it's my sarcastic posts r.e.
> Georgianatown, etc., that should be taken
> seriously. I try to keep my serious posts
> light-hearted though - within my limited
> capabilities - clearly reasoned and factual. In
> general I try to admit mistakes, and to NOT resort
> to name calling and personal insults except in
> those cases where someone in a position of public
> trust has betrayed his or her constituents.

lol. Russo you got it all. Thats a No to the "Ticket to Tomahawk" paint scheme. But 489 with a green boiler jacket would be cool! Maybe with the bug logo also...