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Thank You for these fascinating posts, Earl!
It looks like you (or youse guys) had gotten some more lamps by the time of Jim Trowbridge's charters in late September, 1996. In the first of the photos posted a few days ago at [ngdiscussion.net] both helper #463 (doing most of the work, according to her impartial engineer) and road engine #497 appear to be wearing not only class lamps but white flags. In the second photo - a closer view of #497 - it looks to me that the lamps are the same D&RGW style pictured above.
- Gramps
p.s. It looks like #498 was also wearing this style of class lamp on her last day in service - 08/29/68 - after which she too was stored in the Alamosa roundhouse:
The rest of the photo (originally a 35mm Kodachrome):
(Note that her headlight was not lit in the above photo, taken just below Cumbres Loop - aka 'Tanglefoot Curve' - but was lit as she approached Antonito a couple of hours later.)
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/20/2017 06:26PM by Russo Loco.
It looks like you (or youse guys) had gotten some more lamps by the time of Jim Trowbridge's charters in late September, 1996. In the first of the photos posted a few days ago at [ngdiscussion.net] both helper #463 (doing most of the work, according to her impartial engineer) and road engine #497 appear to be wearing not only class lamps but white flags. In the second photo - a closer view of #497 - it looks to me that the lamps are the same D&RGW style pictured above.
- Gramps
p.s. It looks like #498 was also wearing this style of class lamp on her last day in service - 08/29/68 - after which she too was stored in the Alamosa roundhouse:
The rest of the photo (originally a 35mm Kodachrome):
(Note that her headlight was not lit in the above photo, taken just below Cumbres Loop - aka 'Tanglefoot Curve' - but was lit as she approached Antonito a couple of hours later.)
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/20/2017 06:26PM by Russo Loco.
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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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