Re: Only One More Flying Lefty Shifts to the Right ...

Johnson Barr Wrote:
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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!!!
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>
> 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.

There is evidence in at least one case where locomotives being shopped in Alamosa simply had the old lettering masked off when the black was shot on the tender and the existing lettering was dressed up by hand.

This was done to 484 in 1965, and probably done to 483 in 1966.