CR BT Dispr Wrote:
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> Actually that style 4 and 5 are the tracings of
> #524 - a SG loco with electric headlight and
> dynamo and a flat smokebox door. It's not a
> terribly early photo, so even if the lettering style
> was older it was still in use significantly later.
> And isn't the '425' going on a very backdated
> #315?
Makes sense to me — especially if #168 can be re-done to the same style – in faux gold – to keep them as a matched pair! *
> Also – as I said, I simplified them a bit so they
> aren't the slightly more 'extreme fancy' version
> on #524, but more 'generic' D&RG. Easily
> changed it if needed / wanted for use.
IMHO, the more Victorian / Edwardian (fancier) the better -
Anything to make future Phraud-O-Graphs
® as deceptive as possible
. . .
But Dave indicated to me in a p.m. that he is heading to Chama tomorrow to do the re-numbering. It's still more than a month 'til the Round-Up, so can this be put off for one more week so there's time to get it as perfect as possible so the rivet counters and nit-pickers have nothing to complain about? Haste makes waste, you know, and if it's done right maybe #315 can remain as #425 for at least the rest of the season — she's been wearing her 1930s outfit for more than a decade now, and variety IS the spice of life!
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
* Seems to me like a golden opportunity to re-enact
'The Scene That Made Fred Jukes Famous', even if we do have to settle for the "other" Jukes Tree.
(See [
ngdiscussion.net]
et seq.)