Re: Only One More Flying Lefty Shifts to the Right ... 
| July 29, 2014 01:28PM |
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Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> The Jon Bentz photo is not 492, its 497, same as
> in Earl's photo.
>
> Why ... cause this was after the rails were torn
> up, and 492 was sold to the states and traveled
> from Alamosa to Chama, where it sits today!!!
That fits with the story I heard about the stencil, Greg -
#481 was the last K-36 to undergo heavy shopping in Alamosa, and IIRC it was also in Alamosa that both #487 and #497 had gotten a different slant on things. After K-28 #473 starred in "Butch & Sundance" she ran light to Alamosa in mid-October 1968, where she was the last engine shopped. Apparently her tender was NOT repainted or re-lettered at that time, as Ernie Robart's photos of helper #473 in La Jara and Chama on December 5th show the forward-slanting Rio Grande logo on the engineers side. On December 6, 1968, #473 pulled #481 and several carloads of parts the rest of the way from Chama to Durango, while the previous day's road engine, #483, returned to Alamosa.
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
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> The Jon Bentz photo is not 492, its 497, same as
> in Earl's photo.
>
> Why ... cause this was after the rails were torn
> up, and 492 was sold to the states and traveled
> from Alamosa to Chama, where it sits today!!!
That fits with the story I heard about the stencil, Greg -
#481 was the last K-36 to undergo heavy shopping in Alamosa, and IIRC it was also in Alamosa that both #487 and #497 had gotten a different slant on things. After K-28 #473 starred in "Butch & Sundance" she ran light to Alamosa in mid-October 1968, where she was the last engine shopped. Apparently her tender was NOT repainted or re-lettered at that time, as Ernie Robart's photos of helper #473 in La Jara and Chama on December 5th show the forward-slanting Rio Grande logo on the engineers side. On December 6, 1968, #473 pulled #481 and several carloads of parts the rest of the way from Chama to Durango, while the previous day's road engine, #483, returned to Alamosa.
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
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"Not All Those Who Ponder Can Think . . . "
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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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