Johnson Barr Wrote:
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> Herb Kelsey Wrote:
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> > 487. First on account of a beautiful
> back-lit
> > Jim Shaughnessey photo of the loco at speed
> > between Alamosa and Antonito published in
> > Beebe & Clegg's Narrow Gauge in the Rockies -
> > my first book on the narrow gauge. > > the way she wore a plow.
>
>
> By any chance, Herb -
>
> Are you referring to the photo on page 93 of
> 'Narrow Gauge in the Rockies' that was the
> inspiration for Roosso's hit song, "The Ballad of
> Festus Frothjaw"?? Not only does #487 have
> a rather unique plow that IIRC is somewhat more
> permanently attached than the one that keeps
> getting swapped around among the other C&TS
> engines, she also - along with K-37 #497 - once
> had a rather unique flying Rio Grande logo on the
> engineer's side of her tender behind the
> locomotive - see
> [
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> 85174.
That I am. Not only did she have those unique qualities but she also had her pump exhaust plumbed up behind the stack instead of inside the smokebox and she had a lifting injector, ala K-37's, on her left side. For a K-36 she was and is a one-of-a-kind in a cookie cutter class.