John West Wrote:
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> Russo is right, that is a gen-U-ine historic
> artifact that has been altered. But it certainly
> is a good model for a replica, and the photographs
> can not only help get the lettering correct but
> also help determine which are the DRGW era dings
> and bullet holes that need to also be replicated
> (versus the post abandonment digs and bullet holes
> that should be ignored!).
>
> Some years ago I helped "restore" the tar paper
> "motorcar" shed at Cumbres. Only later did we
> come to find that it had been something like a
> tool shed for the DRGW, and that Scenic had
> rotated it 90 degrees and modified it to store
> motorcars by putting a door on one end. At some
> point it probably needs to be restored back to its
> DRGW configuration (assuming we can figure out
> what that was).
>
> The C&TS has been around for so long that just
> because something looks old does not mean that was
> the way it looked in DRGW days!
>
> JBWX
Along those lines, I am often amused at small details that we created on many things over the years, that have become gospel and are now getting reproduced on models as well as the prototype.