473 Incognito

According to Earl, the 473 ran east on October 9 not only in its movie paint, without its diamond stack, and lettered Union Pacific, but also numbered 478 on its cab (but with 473 on its smoke box plate). The 483 was already in Chama doing movie work for "The Good Guys and The Bad Guys", renumbered variously 577 and 550. Earl noted that "an interesting sight was to be made in Chama that evening as "Grand Mountain Line #577 (483) was nose to nose with "Union Pacific" #478 (473)."

Earl has several manuscrips documenting the final years of DRGW ng. operations between Alamosa and Durango, and hopefully one of these days they will be published somewhere so that everybody can have access to this information. (Then we will also nit pick them so see if there are any errors.) They were compiled from various DRGW documents as well as interviews with the crewmen involved. Earl's stuff together with Ernie's probably provide the definitive record of those last years.

This kind of stuff needs to be achived before it disappears.

JBWX



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/05/2009 10:55AM by John West.