Re: K-27s 455 and 461

Jeff Taylor Wrote:
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> Good points hank. So when do you think this was
> taken? Could this have been around 49 before all
> this happened.

That would be my guess. BTW, she has flags & a full coal bunker too. I'd guess the shot was taken at some time late 40's while she was being leased. But really, that's just a WAG.

> I would like to bring up the fact that Iv noticed
> that the side rods are still in place. In pictures
> of her in Rico show her with no side rods. This
> was common practice. so I don't think she was
> recently towed in this shot.


I cheated a bit, dug out my slide projector and my copy of this slide
from a set sold to me by Al Chione in '74 (thanks mom & dad!). Looking at the letter that lists the slides (set 1974-L, subset F) also has the 8/11/52 date but... included in the shots are one of #20 in the roundhouse however #20 was in Durango from the time she made her last run in the Fall of '51 until she went to Alamosa & the Narrow Gauge Motel. So the date is almost certainly wrong.

hank