Re: C&TS Tri-Color Logo
| February 02, 2022 12:52PM |
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Design-A-Sign in Pagosa Springs made up a pair for us back in 2010, Earl -
They were printed on magnetic vinyl, which made it easy to try them out on various vehicles:
. . . but way too easily blown off on a windy day. We lost one of #488's to a strong gust at The Whiplash on her first trip from Cumbres to Antonito. It would be just as easy to make them as "permanent" stick-on vinyl the same way the loco numbers and lettering are currently done, and use a heat gun to snuggle them down around a tender's rivets:
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
They were printed on magnetic vinyl, which made it easy to try them out on various vehicles:
. . . but way too easily blown off on a windy day. We lost one of #488's to a strong gust at The Whiplash on her first trip from Cumbres to Antonito. It would be just as easy to make them as "permanent" stick-on vinyl the same way the loco numbers and lettering are currently done, and use a heat gun to snuggle them down around a tender's rivets:
- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender
, Flying Rio Grande 
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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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