--- In [email protected], "ctxmf74" <ctxm@...> wrote:
>
> The Heritage schemes are prototypical but until they outnumber the normal
> locos they are not typical. When modelers create a layout they look for the
> typical not the unique. <skip> ..DaveBranum
>
Dave:
That is one POV and you are certainly entitled to it but I don't think it's
universal. Railfans will always gather to photograph the unique. Historically
brass runs of "Christine" and Schnabel cars have sold out rapidly, hardly
"typical" models. String Bob and I talked years ago about cutting an AM FP7
into an F2, just to set off a brace of F units. RRM made NYC Bay Window
cabooses, Lots 782 & 827; the railroad had 300 of those two lots. I took a
power drill, nibbling tool and file to one to create a Lot 778 Bay Window
caboose - the NYC had exactly three of them. I guess I kinda like the unique,
I don't want my models to be exactly like everyone elses. That's not to say I
don't have a bunch of typical trains, but spicing things up with the unique is
just kinda cool to me...
Would I buy one of the Heritage units and put in a dog's breakfast diesel
consist, you bet! If manufacturers only made the Heritage schemes and not the
normal schemes, I would be disappointed. But I doubt that will be the case.
Besides, it is easier to piant the standard NS scheme than almost all those
Heritage schemes. I say bring 'em on....
Jim Kindraka
Plymouth, WI
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