Originally Posted by Hot Water:
Originally Posted by Berkshire President:
Dom: There is no need to apologize or qualify your opinion in any way, shape or form. You're fully entitled to your opinion on the matter.
For what it's worth, I, too, find that front end woefully unattractive.
Others will disagree with me, as is their right. One man's coffee is another man's tea.
Well for what it's worth here, I wasn't stating "opinion"! I was describing the ENGINEERING behind why a number of railroads, elected to mount the air pumps on the front of the smokebox, instead of on huge studs attached to the boiler shell.
Yes, but your engineering fact was in response to his opinion about the looks of the engine. You can't have it both ways...
FWIW I think it's ugly too. Aesthetics are a personal choice though. We aren't talking about designing a locomotive here. We are talking about 3rd Rail toy trains that we may want to own. The good news is that Scott has a builder that will allow him to do much smaller runs. Thus a lot of "ugly" 
engines have a shot at getting made. That's great news for a lot of people.
