Re: C&TS in '72 (pics: #483+#484, & Hinmann Car)

Greg Scholl Wrote:
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> Nice photos from the early days.  I especially
> like the ones with the trees on the edges
> (framing or not).

Thanks, Greg - Just trying to be "artsy" (or at least "calendarly".)

> Also like the looks of the fronts of the
> engines with the brighter smokeboxes.


I totally agree with you there!

Starting in the late forties, IIRC, the S.P. figured that bright smokeboxes made the engines more visible and thus reduced grade-crossing accidents; even the cab-forwards got a big rectangle of aluminium on their fronts.  D&RGW apparently thought likewise, although their coal burner's faces were harder to keep clean than S.P.'s (mostly) oil burners.

The silver fronts definitely make for brighter photos!

- Roosso