Re: C&TS Dinner Train, Sept. '72 (pics - #483 + Hinmann Car)
| August 16, 2015 10:21PM |
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Sam Seiber Wrote {approximately}:
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> Very cool stuff. Now that the C&T is very much
> a part of the history of this road, I would like to
> suggest that the C&TS label their tenders as in
> the top row of pictures. The historic C&T logo.
Rich Murray Wrote:
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> Sam you'll get a LOT of agreement to that.
Careful, youse guys -
IIRC, it was John Bush himself who designed the flying Cumbres & Toltec logo several years ago ...
OTOH, I'll third Sam's motion, but with three changes:
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> Very cool stuff. Now that the C&T is very much
> a part of the history of this road, I would like to
> suggest that the C&TS label their tenders as in
> the top row of pictures. The historic C&T logo.
Rich Murray Wrote:
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> Sam you'll get a LOT of agreement to that.
Careful, youse guys -
IIRC, it was John Bush himself who designed the flying Cumbres & Toltec logo several years ago ...
OTOH, I'll third Sam's motion, but with three changes:
- Instead of Ernie's original 4-inch-high "CUMBRES AND TOLTEC SCENIC RAILROAD", use the revised, slightly abbreviated name with a much larger font - "CUMBRES & TOLTEC SCENIC RR"; the latter is a lot more legible from a distance.
- Use the tri-color C&TS herald - it's more eye-catching than all-white or all-aluminium, but is still based on an historic D&RGW style.
- Apply this lettering and herald to only one engine's tender - I suggest the 'Painted Lady', #489, since she's already used to dealing with oddball color schemes ...
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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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