Re: Rotary OY...the way it should be.

Well, Jerry, I for one would greatly enjoy seeing a rotary operating again. I was fortunate to see the operation in 1978, and for the beer commercial, and I'm all for another operation. If I sounded pessimistic I am sorry. I was trying to be realistic, given the financial constraints at the C&TS.

As far as the lettering of equipment is concerned, my personal opinion is that revenue equipment, such as passenger cars and the locomotives pulling them, should be lettered for the railroad that owns them. (The UP now owns the Grande, for better or worse, and it is Uncle Pete's prerogative to label what he owns as he wishes.) For marketing reasons, I feel the everyday revenue equipment of the C&TSRR needs to be lettered as "C&TSRR". The RR depends on non-railfan revenue too much to risk confusing the initiated.

But non-revenue, museum specimens, should be lettered for the parent road, D&RGW, probably as they were in December, 1968.

But all the equipment, buildings, etc, have a new owner, and is no longer D&RGW, for better or worse. So it is "legal" for the owner to do as it wishes, even using green paint on boilers, and dumb gold trim, and ugly red counterweights.

Please don't misunderstand me, Jerry. I want to see History preserved as much as you do. But who is going to pay for the paint, wood, and labor?

Steve

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