Russo Loco Wrote:
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> guymonmd Wrote:
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> > Thanks for the photo. It appears that on
> Sept 6,
> > 1970 483 still had some of its movie paint on
> the
> > cylinders and drivers.
>
>
> Not just "some", Guy -
>
> Nearly all of the Hollyweird make-up applied for
> #483's starring role in
'The Good Guys and the
> Bad Guys' was still intact nearly two years
> after the filming was completed. After the
> movie was finished in mid-October, #483 ran west
> to Durango with the few cars used in the
> movie. She then pulled the
National Park
> Service Special from Durango to Alamosa in
> late November, and in December of 1968 she was
> #473's helper from Alamosa to Cumbres; her return
> from Chama to Alamosa on December 6 was the very
> last D&RGW operation over Cumbres Pass, after
> which she was stored in the Alamosa
> roundhouse. With only three relatively easy
> trips through the tunnels prior to being turned
> over to the C&TS on September 1, 1970, her
> boxcar-red cab, gold handrails & cylinder jackets,
> and scarlet harlot counterweights retained nearly
> all their brilliance.
>
> When we ne'er-do-wells dolled up #487 to fill in
> for #483 ten years ago last week to celebrate the
> C&TS 40th Anniversary we got a LOT of static, but
> IMHO the only real deviations from
> histœrical accuracy were the unavoidable
> presence of #487's semi-permanent snowplow and the
> cab numbers being a little too close together (for
> which I will take full responsibility — we
> hurriedly finished decorating "#483" only about
> two hours before she was pressed into service
> pulling the re-enactment of the first C&TS train
> into Chama, fifty years ago this evening).
> Here's "#483" on 08/26/10, shortly after painting
> was complete but before any of the press-on
> lettering had been applied
:
> [attachment 68065 100826-Engine.jpg]
The painting crew for the 40 year re-enactment train was from L to R, Rich Murray (former Friends Dispatch editor), his son Mike, Russo Loco, and Jim Poston. They did a pretty good job making 487 look like 483 when the states took over.
