Re: #492 in Sept. & Oct. 1970 (and 2020?) on the C&TS
| January 03, 2018 01:23PM |
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Tomstp Wrote:
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> OK, remember to get some tires to be set
> afire in the smokebox (cough-cough) !
NOT necessary, Tom -
Per Ernie's book*, #492 hasn't had a fire in her since 1966. In fact SFAIK the only C&TS engine that DID have a fire in her in 1970 was #483. Operated by mostly volunteer train crews during September and October, she pulled nearly all of the equipment delivered to Antonito by the D&RGW over the hill to Chama – beginning with #492, which was hauled dead-in-train to the tail of the wye at Big Horn on September 2nd.
Willie's suggestion, which I heartily second, is that one or more of these "hospital trains" be replicated in 2020 as part of a 50th Anniversary Celebration of the birth of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RR. One of the operational K-36's should be painted up as #483 circa mid-October, 1970, with boxcar red on her cab and tender, but post-Shootout black counterweights, and used to re-enact the 10/17/70 equipment move so that Ernie and Sam can get their picture re-taken at Lava Tank per John Cole's suggestion on his post at [ngdiscussion.net].
One or more of the September 1970 trains could also be re-enacted – with #492 or one of several other engines hauled 'tirelessly' dead-in-train – but of course authentic Phraud-O-Graphs™ would require that "#483's" counterweights be re-painted appropriately . . .
- Roosso
* 'Rio Grande Narrow Gauge - The Final Years, Alamosa to Chama' by Joseph P. Hereford, Jr. and Ernest W. Robart
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/2018 12:33PM by Russo Loco.
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> OK, remember to get some tires to be set
> afire in the smokebox (cough-cough) !
NOT necessary, Tom -
Per Ernie's book*, #492 hasn't had a fire in her since 1966. In fact SFAIK the only C&TS engine that DID have a fire in her in 1970 was #483. Operated by mostly volunteer train crews during September and October, she pulled nearly all of the equipment delivered to Antonito by the D&RGW over the hill to Chama – beginning with #492, which was hauled dead-in-train to the tail of the wye at Big Horn on September 2nd.
Willie's suggestion, which I heartily second, is that one or more of these "hospital trains" be replicated in 2020 as part of a 50th Anniversary Celebration of the birth of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RR. One of the operational K-36's should be painted up as #483 circa mid-October, 1970, with boxcar red on her cab and tender, but post-Shootout black counterweights, and used to re-enact the 10/17/70 equipment move so that Ernie and Sam can get their picture re-taken at Lava Tank per John Cole's suggestion on his post at [ngdiscussion.net].
One or more of the September 1970 trains could also be re-enacted – with #492 or one of several other engines hauled 'tirelessly' dead-in-train – but of course authentic Phraud-O-Graphs™ would require that "#483's" counterweights be re-painted appropriately . . .
- Roosso
* 'Rio Grande Narrow Gauge - The Final Years, Alamosa to Chama' by Joseph P. Hereford, Jr. and Ernest W. Robart
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/2018 12:33PM by Russo Loco.
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