Thanks for the kind words Ron and Bret! It's nice to see that people appreciate my work. To the best of my knowledge, the color photo of the 251 near Salisbury is the first color picture of them to ever be published. After seeing Mal Ferrell's RGS color slides I kind of regretted not sending in more of my slides, there's four or five color shots of 250-51. Oh well, hindsight is 20/20 right?
I still have a lot of unanswered questions in regard to the mallets, but the more information that is presented increases the chances of finding cool stuff we'd all like to know...