Re: 1971 C&TS scenes

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employee2

November 24, 2014 03:30AM

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Actually, although it looks white in those pictures, we had painted the smokebox with bright silver heat resistant paint. Later, we began to add graphite to the silver paint to darken it, as we heard that the Rio Grande shops had done it that way.

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1971 C&TS scenes	Greg Scholl	November 23, 2014 03:14PM
Re: 1971 C&TS scenes	waynek	November 23, 2014 05:34PM
Re: 1971 C&TS scenes	CharlieMcCandless	November 23, 2014 06:15PM
Re: 1971 C&TS scenes	Greg Scholl	November 23, 2014 07:44PM
Re: 1971 C&TS scenes	michael	November 23, 2014 10:32PM
Re: 1971 C&TS scenes	employee2	November 24, 2014 03:30AM
Re: 1971 C&TS scenes	Greg Scholl	November 24, 2014 07:38AM
Re: 1971 C&TS scenes	John West	November 24, 2014 09:43AM
Re: 1971 C&TS scenes	Lorne Noyes	November 24, 2014 12:28PM
Re: 1971 C&TS scenes	CharlieMcCandless	November 24, 2014 05:49PM
Re: 1971 C&TS scenes	Greg Scholl	November 24, 2014 06:36PM
Re: 1971 C&TS scenes	michael	November 24, 2014 06:54PM

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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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