Re: Winter on the Narrow Gauge - Cumbres & Toltec Flanger Video
| March 28, 2015 04:17PM |
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ReHunn Wrote:
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> Beautiful video, with the modern backhoe
> the trip would have been more apropos
> with C&TS lettered equipment and run as
> a present day work trip.
Chris Webster Replied:
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> It WAS a present day work trip.... but it was
> pulled by one of the C&TS's "heritage paint
> scheme" locomotives.
TOUCHÉ, Chris -
And IMHO it would have been even better with a circa-1950 "heritage paint scheme" -
i.e. #489 with a Dark Olive Green (aka 'Moffat Green') boiler jacket ...
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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> Beautiful video, with the modern backhoe
> the trip would have been more apropos
> with C&TS lettered equipment and run as
> a present day work trip.
Chris Webster Replied:
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> It WAS a present day work trip.... but it was
> pulled by one of the C&TS's "heritage paint
> scheme" locomotives.
TOUCHÉ, Chris -
And IMHO it would have been even better with a circa-1950 "heritage paint scheme" -
i.e. #489 with a Dark Olive Green (aka 'Moffat Green') boiler jacket ...
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
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488 stops for water at Los Pinos tank on closing day Oct. 1979. Photo courtesy Don Richter
The NGDF was started by Don Richter and is currently operated in his memory by Nathan Holmes and others. Others who have contributed to the upkeep of this board are (in no particular order): Charles McCandless, Everett Lueck, Ted Wilton, Cole Adams, James Bane, John Moellmer, Jon Bentz, Linn Moedinger, lloyd lehrer, Rod Jensen, John Craft, Steven Forney, Herb Kelsey, Bill Ramaley, Russ Sperry (El Russo Loco), Josh McNeal, John West, Jim Armstrong, Bob Bergstrom, Greg Scholl, Blake Forbes Doug van Veelen and Mark Fuller.