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Earl

January 23, 2003 04:08PM

I would venture a guess that the last "complete" (both left and right tender sides) lettering was done when the engines were last run through the Alamosa shop in 1968. After 1968 the engines would have been painted in Durango, and they probably only had the right side stencil.

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