Re: Left Mind / Right Mind - Never Mind ... 
| July 30, 2014 11:14AM |
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> Earl Wrote:
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> > It seems the 470's all had right side
> > lettering on both sides in the last 10
> > years or so the Grande ran there.
>
Jon Walden Replied:
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> Mind. Blown.
Ah-HA! NOW I get it!!
The Durango shop crew "borrowed" the right-side stencil from Alamosa sometime in the fifties so they could re-letter the 470's - which by that time were used almost exclusively on the Silverton branch - whenever necessary. Alamosa was left with only the left-side stencil for use on any of the bigger engines that had their tenders re-painted from then on, such as #487 in the mid- or late fifties, #497 sometime later, and #481 in the summer or fall of 1968.
Mystery Solved, and no minds - left OR right - are blown ...
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> > It seems the 470's all had right side
> > lettering on both sides in the last 10
> > years or so the Grande ran there.
>
Jon Walden Replied:
========================================
> Mind. Blown.
Ah-HA! NOW I get it!!
The Durango shop crew "borrowed" the right-side stencil from Alamosa sometime in the fifties so they could re-letter the 470's - which by that time were used almost exclusively on the Silverton branch - whenever necessary. Alamosa was left with only the left-side stencil for use on any of the bigger engines that had their tenders re-painted from then on, such as #487 in the mid- or late fifties, #497 sometime later, and #481 in the summer or fall of 1968.
Mystery Solved, and no minds - left OR right - are blown ...
- Sincerely, Willie (Wm. Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)
"Not All Who Have Cell-Phones Do Twitter *
"Not All Those Who Ponder Can Think . . . "
* Only TWITS Twitter!
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