Re: Painting #114 for the C&TS: DON'T Mislead the Public . . .

Johnson Barr Wrote:
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> jim pallow Wrote {on the "New Diseasel" thread}:
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> > . . .  I vote for the Rio Grande
> black paint
> > scheme with the multiple yellow striping!  
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> O-K, so there will be a new diseasel on the C&TS
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> . . .  Primarily for work-train
> service and supposedly powerful enough to rescue a
> passenger train stuck between Chama and
> Cumbres.  Hopefully this is a one-off
> purchase and NOT the beginning of a slow descent
> into diseasel-powered tourist trains except in
> DIRE emergencies (like a Forest Service shutdown
> of ALL steam operations).  Hopefully the vast
> majority of riders on the C&TS will never see
> – or at least never notice – this
> monstrosity sneaking out of town with a ballast
> train at least an hour before the buses depart in
> time to catch the morning train at the opposite
> end of the line.  But just in case a flatland
> tourister should happen to catch a glimpse of
> #114, this should in no way ever give the false
> and un-histöric impression that such a thing
> was ever used on the Rio Grande narrow
> gauge.  IMHO #114 should NOT, under any
> circumstances, be painted according to any
> diseasel color schemes used by the D&RGW in the
> past, but be kept as obscure and un-noticed as
> possible by painting it in the medium grey with
> black markings appropriate to its primary role as
> motive power for work trains.
>
> - Sincerely, Willie  (Wm.
> Claude Johnson-Barr III, Esq.)  
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> p.s.  While they're at it, I strongly suggest
> that #15, #19 and all the ex-EBT hopper cars be
> painted in m.o.w. grey as well.

My my, that got you going! I never said what lettering it should have. JP