Re: Re-Lettering #463 for Daily Service - NOT!!
| December 05, 2012 09:27PM |
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Randall Hess Wrote:
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> Even if those pictures were taken in black-&-
> white, they would illustrate the issue I hope
> you were alluding to. The current passenger
> cars do a wonderful job of hauling tourists and
> therefore keeping the railroad in business, but
> they are just plain ugly, graceless & wrong.
REALLY?? Gosh, I never noticed!!
> ... I had been hoping [the D&S] would share their
> knowledge with C&TS, so that C&TS could have
> heated cars with the appearance of cars from 1920
> but built with modern light-weight materials ...
IIRC, the steel replica cars (and several sets of passenger trucks) were built at Burnham Shops in Denver by the D&RGW before they sold the Silverton Branch to Charles Bradshaw, so I'm not sure that the D&S has a whole lot of knowledge to share in this regard.
> ... and riding on passenger trucks. (Yes,
> building a whole bunch of trucks would
> be a part of the project).
AMEN to that, Randall!!!
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> Even if those pictures were taken in black-&-
> white, they would illustrate the issue I hope
> you were alluding to. The current passenger
> cars do a wonderful job of hauling tourists and
> therefore keeping the railroad in business, but
> they are just plain ugly, graceless & wrong.
REALLY?? Gosh, I never noticed!!
> ... I had been hoping [the D&S] would share their
> knowledge with C&TS, so that C&TS could have
> heated cars with the appearance of cars from 1920
> but built with modern light-weight materials ...
IIRC, the steel replica cars (and several sets of passenger trucks) were built at Burnham Shops in Denver by the D&RGW before they sold the Silverton Branch to Charles Bradshaw, so I'm not sure that the D&S has a whole lot of knowledge to share in this regard.
> ... and riding on passenger trucks. (Yes,
> building a whole bunch of trucks would
> be a part of the project).
AMEN to that, Randall!!!
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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