Re: CATS Employee #1 - Eddie Martinez?

John Cole Wrote:
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> To change the subject to a happier note, how come
> the tender is marked Rio Grande? I thought Rio
> Grande insisted on removing their name from the
> engines when they sold them to the states.

Apparently it wasn't quite that simple.

Summer of 1971 I had a summer internship at Los Alamos.
Not being sure of when I would ever be that far west again
(I lived in IN and was a grad student in NY), I went on outings
every weekend. After seeing an article in the local newspaper about
the new tourist railroad, I went thru Antonito and Chama on 7/3/1971
(except I misspelled the latter as "Chalma" in my notes).
My pictures from the time show that #488 was still painted "Rio Grande",
and the OY water car / OM itself were still painted gray and
(according to my notes) were "not yet re-marked for CATS".
My understanding was that CATS was re-painting the equipment itself,
and non-revenue equipment was not very high priority for them.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/19/2015 05:58PM by Randall Hess.