Re: Two Locos In Chama - by Ernie Robart
| September 03, 2015 09:57PM |
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Earl Wrote:
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> It {#473} came east to Alamosa {for shopping}
> after the Butch Cassidy flick was done.
Don't believe the number painted on her cab and tender behind - this is D&RGW #473 -
NOT Union Pacific #478 - in Chama on 10/09/68 on her way east. These two locos are
undoubtedly commiserating with one another concerning all the ugly and embarrassing
Hollyweird costumes they had been forced to wear during the previous two or three weeks:
Copyright © 1968, 2013 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/04/2015 08:39AM by Russo Loco.
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> It {#473} came east to Alamosa {for shopping}
> after the Butch Cassidy flick was done.
Don't believe the number painted on her cab and tender behind - this is D&RGW #473 -
NOT Union Pacific #478 - in Chama on 10/09/68 on her way east. These two locos are
undoubtedly commiserating with one another concerning all the ugly and embarrassing
Hollyweird costumes they had been forced to wear during the previous two or three weeks:
Copyright © 1968, 2013 by Ernest W. Robart - All Rights Reserved.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/04/2015 08:39AM by Russo Loco.
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