Re: C&TS Tri-Color and Sunrise logos
| January 29, 2022 09:02PM |
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The two styles appeared together on at least one double-header several years ago -
They're too far away to see clearly in this shot of an extra-long train approaching Cresco Tank during the peak of Fall Colors in late September, 1975:
So here's helper #487 (with plow) and with her tender lettered á lá Knoob drifting downgrade near Coxo a bit later in the day:
. . . and road engine #483 with her tender painted á lá Coker (or Watts?) taking water at Sublette that afternoon:
SFAIK, #483 was the only C&TS loco to be "blessed" with an RGS-style 'Sunrise' logo on her tender behind. The ridiculous red trim may have been an homage to her earlier grotesquefication with scarlet red counterweights for a bit part in a Hollyweird western.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/30/2022 12:23PM by Russo Loco.
They're too far away to see clearly in this shot of an extra-long train approaching Cresco Tank during the peak of Fall Colors in late September, 1975:
So here's helper #487 (with plow) and with her tender lettered á lá Knoob drifting downgrade near Coxo a bit later in the day:
. . . and road engine #483 with her tender painted á lá Coker (or Watts?) taking water at Sublette that afternoon:
SFAIK, #483 was the only C&TS loco to be "blessed" with an RGS-style 'Sunrise' logo on her tender behind. The ridiculous red trim may have been an homage to her earlier grotesquefication with scarlet red counterweights for a bit part in a Hollyweird western.
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/30/2022 12:23PM 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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