Re: Late August, 2015 - Special Trains, Paint, etc. ... 
| July 19, 2014 11:57AM |
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Rich Murray Wrote:
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> ... Thanks for starting the conversation on
> this and getting the ball rolling. In hopes of
> having as much fun in 2015 as we did back
> in 2010 I'll find a way to be there. But I ain't
> doing no paint!!
Not to worry, Rich -
SFAIK, the only "painting" necessary will be re-lettering the tender(s) of one (or two?) locomotive(s) with the flying 'Rio Grande' logo -
unless Jimmy Blouch has some documentation showing that #489 worked between Alamosa and Chama during the summer of 1950,
in which case a Moffat Green jacket may again be appropriate ...
And of course we'll have to dirty up all those freshly painted and re-bearinged GRAMPS tank cars so they look like they are actually
hauling crude, as in this July, 1963 image that John West sent me a few years ago for use in the "Help Save #483" screen saver:
- Rússo
p.s. Note the boxcars at the front of this 'Cumbres Turn', proof that a train of six to eight tank cars, supplemented with two or three additional freight cars, would look 100% authentic ...
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> ... Thanks for starting the conversation on
> this and getting the ball rolling. In hopes of
> having as much fun in 2015 as we did back
> in 2010 I'll find a way to be there. But I ain't
> doing no paint!!
Not to worry, Rich -
SFAIK, the only "painting" necessary will be re-lettering the tender(s) of one (or two?) locomotive(s) with the flying 'Rio Grande' logo -
unless Jimmy Blouch has some documentation showing that #489 worked between Alamosa and Chama during the summer of 1950,
in which case a Moffat Green jacket may again be appropriate ...
And of course we'll have to dirty up all those freshly painted and re-bearinged GRAMPS tank cars so they look like they are actually
hauling crude, as in this July, 1963 image that John West sent me a few years ago for use in the "Help Save #483" screen saver:
- Rússo
p.s. Note the boxcars at the front of this 'Cumbres Turn', proof that a train of six to eight tank cars, supplemented with two or three additional freight cars, would look 100% authentic ...
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
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