In the mail today I received a birthday card from an elderly relative in western Colorado. She is very much aware of my NG interest. She says the card is something she has had for over 25 years (I'd guess longer) and it has a neat photo of 476 with at least 11 cars. The caption says: The "Silverton" last of the narrow gauge trains.
It has been about 37 years since I rode the "Silverton", and at that time (1968) the cars were yellow as they are today. In the photo I am looking at, the cars are redish. Other things such as dry grass that should be yellow in the photo are yellow, so I don't think it is a photographic or printing quirk. At what time were the cars red? The location has the train running directly along side a stream, with a considerable canyon in the background. There is some timber on the adjacent hillside. Any idea on the location? Also the last car in the train is hard to distinguish, but it may be an open sided car with a roof. Was there a car of this sort used for excursions in fair weather? The front 3 pass. cars have some sort of pipe comming down off the roof from a something sticking up at the center near the end of the car. The pipe in question appears to go down the side of the car vertically to a point just below the beltline under the windows to a point of attatchment. What is this pipe and parts? One more question. The fith car back appears to be about the same size as the rest of the cars and does not appear like the DRGW RPO we have at SVRy, but appears to have a side door near the front end, or could it be a closed vestibule?
