Re: Picking an era

I don't disagree with focusing on the 50's-60's, but I wouldn't have wanted to see the Tourist Sleeper restored to that time frame. Not as a pitiful looking outfit car, aka 0250. And 168 would be on display next to the depot.

I know having mixed eras will confuse people, but perhaps we need to highlight that in the 100 or so years the narrow gauge didn't haul tourists it had different looks. At one time there was a thought of painting each of the section houses a different color to show the changes over the years.But often, more than just the paint changed.

When we restored the 0579, we were very careful to follow the features present post-WWII, in particular the side cupola windows. That meant the flying Rio Grande was appropriate. Then one year they slapped the previous logo on it, without understanding why that was wrong. Fortunately it got repainted completely not long afterwards, and I steered the lettering crew back to the newer logo, I was there where the bright red paint was applied last summer and I understand why, but will reserve comment for a later time.

I guess the bottom line is that we're lucky to be able to have this discussion.

Bill Kepner

A side story to 0579's paint was that when we were ready to get 0579 lettered the first time, the lettering crew showed up with the stencil for the pre-WWII logo. We told them they couldn't use that and to go back to Chama and paint something there. We did use that stencil... On JBWX 01.



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