Re: Tender lending at the CRRM!

With all due respect to my Elders, Rich -

Of whom, IIRC, you are not (quite?) one - it looks like the cab numbers and the tender numbers of #318 / #346 are reversed from the photo to which Rex posted a link.  Furthermore, the green jacket on #346 - while beautiful - is not appropriate for a loco with the relatively modern flying Rio Grande logo on her tender.  SFAIK, the only engines painted that way by the D&RGW were #499 in 1948 or '49 and #489 in 1950 - in both cases for Rocky Club charters; all of the other D&RGW locos that ever had green jackets also still had the older style lettering with the Royal Gorge or Royal Gorge / Moffat Tunnel herald (or the tri-color version of the latter) on their tenders at the time.

- Roosso de los Locos, aka 'That Wild-Eyed Foamer from California'



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 11/29/2015 11:38AM by Russo Loco.