I was looking for an E7 in a particular road name, and I keep finding E8's. I am not a total purist about things, but I like to have locos in my road name that the RR actually owned, and in this case, they never owed an E8. So, is it just the manf. providing models that folks covet, and in their favorite road name, with no historical accuracy applied? I know you can apply modeling license to you railroad and do anything you want, like a T1 Duplex on the FEC, but still...
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