@CALNNC posted: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...
3rd Rail did 4 runs of E7s starting in 2011. I have one from the first run, four from the 2nd, and 1 from the 4th. The third run was a special run for the "Train of Tomorrow".
While 3rd rail has done a few "fantasy" paint schemes at the request of specific buyers the vast majority of product is thoroughly researched for accuracy to the prototype.
What road name are you looking for? One of my E7s is in SPS and not only did they have E8s, they only had one E7.
The rest of mine are PRR and in 2 rail.
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