Re: SILVER anyone (not 489 but 453)
| September 09, 2008 01:13PM |
There has been a lot of fuss about the paint on 489.
In all honesty, I do not see what the fuss is about and yet some have stomped off and left the NGDF.
From my point of view only, I grew up with the Southern Railway steam program with 750, 722, 630, and 4501. 630 and 750 were black with graphite on the smokebox and firebox, the tender deck and coal bin and cab roof and cab doors primer red. Wheels had white trim, yellow (gold) was the trim on the hand rails, the edge of the running boards, and the edge of the tender frame (I think).
When I researched the Gainesville Midland for restoring GM 2-10-0 #209, this was the way it ran in the late 1950's hauling freight. So Did Chattahoochee Valley 2-8-0 #21.
I guess it all depends on your experiences. I just can not understand all the fuss.
Sorry about that. (Is this much ado about nothing?)
Doug vV
In all honesty, I do not see what the fuss is about and yet some have stomped off and left the NGDF.
From my point of view only, I grew up with the Southern Railway steam program with 750, 722, 630, and 4501. 630 and 750 were black with graphite on the smokebox and firebox, the tender deck and coal bin and cab roof and cab doors primer red. Wheels had white trim, yellow (gold) was the trim on the hand rails, the edge of the running boards, and the edge of the tender frame (I think).
When I researched the Gainesville Midland for restoring GM 2-10-0 #209, this was the way it ran in the late 1950's hauling freight. So Did Chattahoochee Valley 2-8-0 #21.
I guess it all depends on your experiences. I just can not understand all the fuss.
Sorry about that. (Is this much ado about nothing?)
Doug vV
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
The NGDF was started by Don Richter and is currently operated in his memory by Nathan Holmes and others. Others who have contributed to the upkeep of this board are (in no particular order): Charles McCandless, Everett Lueck, Ted Wilton, Cole Adams, James Bane, John Moellmer, Jon Bentz, Linn Moedinger, lloyd lehrer, Rod Jensen, John Craft, Steven Forney, Herb Kelsey, Bill Ramaley, Russ Sperry (El Russo Loco), Josh McNeal, John West, Jim Armstrong, Bob Bergstrom, Greg Scholl, Blake Forbes Doug van Veelen and Mark Fuller.