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Nothing for me.

Re: CP Military Heritages.  I hoped for the entire fleet, but color me disappointed.  Again.  Lionel took a similar tooling shortcut as MTH by not to modifying their SD90 model.  Neither changed their SD90 cab to the SD70ACU style.

Whereas MTH used their SD70ACe model to match the ACU cab but not the longer SD90 body, Lionel just used the whole old SD90 body and painted them heritages.  While the MTH SD70ACe models looks right coming at you, the longer body and faceted tail is absent.  Lionel has the massive engine body, but the cab is obviously wrong.  Visually, it's six-of-one or half-dozen of the other as to the shortfall we are supposed to accept if we want CP Military Heritage engines.  But it is a massive shortfall to the customer, nevertheless. 

MTH 20-21500-1

MTH CP 7022

Lionel

As for the other SD90 choices, the two CP Heritage with block and scroll heralds suffer the same cab issue as the military versions.

I had also hoped to see the black NS and regular red CP SD70ACU rebuilt-SD90s.  If I were buying, the only right SD90 offered is the UP patched in NS which is as sold prior to conversion to SD70ACU.  This one is at least close to accurate.

One should try to say something good to offset bad.  To Lionel's credit, even with the wrong tooling, they are doing the CP Army green 7020 and the CP Air Force 7023 which MTH did not in 2020 v2.  That makes Lionel the only O manufacturer to offer all the CP military engines.  Hopefully, Lionel will not screw up the D-Day 6644 paint with slime green color like MTH did in their Premier (Thumbs down MW/RF/AE).

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