--- In [email protected], "Michael" <wsmwrr@...> wrote:
>Second I'm going to have to look into this a bit more, but the Santa Fe scheme
>looks all wrong. I didn't think the warbonet went that far back onto the
>carbody.
The original passenger F3s had a longer bonnet to accomodate the middle
porthole on the F3A (these were Phase Is). Santa Fe shortened it on later
orders and eventually repainted the originals.
>Also where the hell is the undecorated offering for these! Who offers dummy
>units now a days?
It's the toy train mentality. Those folks do little of the model painting and
detailing that is common in HO and N, but they do want multiple-unit diesels
without paying for multiple drives and the attendant electronics.
SHS was something of a rare bird in that it was basically a prototype-oriented
scale company with tinplate compatibility. MTH and Lionel are more the
opposite, and that thinking is reflected in their offerings. Even the catalogs
are a middling to poor representation of what the actual product is like.
Reminds me of the old Proto 2000 ads- the pictures looked almost Lionel-grade
and the actual models were 1000x better.
David Thompson
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