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| January 03, 2013 12:24AM |
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NGJunkie Wrote:
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> Most of us just count the rivets
> and patches to figure it out.
... and forget that the 'Rio Grande' logo on the engineer's side of both #487 and #497 was slanting the wrong way (i.e. was the fireman's side logo) from the mid- to late 1950's through the end of D&RGW operations in 1968 ...
IIRC, the tenders also carry builder's plates w/ serial numbers. Rivet ... Rivet ...
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> Most of us just count the rivets
> and patches to figure it out.
... and forget that the 'Rio Grande' logo on the engineer's side of both #487 and #497 was slanting the wrong way (i.e. was the fireman's side logo) from the mid- to late 1950's through the end of D&RGW operations in 1968 ...
IIRC, the tenders also carry builder's plates w/ serial numbers. Rivet ... Rivet ...
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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