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From: Kevin DeGroff kadegroff AT xtn DOT net
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:43:04 -0400
Subject: Re: (erielack) EL 3607 "painter's photo"
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Beautiful. Looks almost like it did when it rolled out of LaGrange 37 years ago. Does anybody else
think that the nose diamond looks a little bit like the 'red' version that EL typically applied as the
noses eventually got repainted? The original factory nose diamonds were the exact same shade of maroon
as the side stripe, but as units were repainted or had crossing accident damage repaired, the 'stick-on'
diamonds used by Hornell often had a reddish tone to it.

Regardless, it looks fabulous.

Now, we just need to see the same thing happen in Roanoke. I stopped by VMOT on the 11th, and the
6670/3639 still wearing tattered CR blue was getting deeper and deeper encrusted in the jungle of
trees growing beside it. The attached photos, which I shot in 1998, are not repeatable today because
all the brush you see growing against the fence has bloomed big time. It still sits there, sandwiched
between the rusting RF&P E units to the west, and the CofG SD7 to the east, and now embedded in trees
that stand taller than the unit itself.

Apparently the Claytor estate donated some money to build a pavilion to cover the 611 and 1218 plus
other misc. steam from the elements, and you could tell (along with some O. Winston Link stuff) thats
where the majority of VMOTs money has been spent in recent years, even to the extent that some of the
previously restored diesels seem to look a bit run down/neglected today. And what state funding they
get is probably down to a trickle because of Virginia budget woes.




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