RickO posted:Hot Water posted:Well, congratulations are in order! Now, which styling version will you offer? The "as delivered" with the small "Southern Pacific Lines" lettering high up on the tender sides, plus the train number indicators forward on the sky-line casing, or the post 1946 bill-board SOUTHERN PACIFIC lettering with the train number indicators re-located rearward at the middle of the sky-line casing.
One other key visual detail item, the two GS-5 locomotives did NOT have the stars painted on the axle ends of the drivers, but a "rounded-off points" emblem to signify roller bearing equipped.
FWIW, Here are the catalog "illustrations":
"Southern Pacific Lines" lettering high up on the tender sides, plus the train number indicators forward on the sky-line casing,"
"the post 1946 bill-board SOUTHERN PACIFIC lettering with the train number indicators re-located rearward at the middle of the sky-line casing."
OK, thanks. Now, hope everyone remembers that Southern Pacific 4-8-4s did NOT have white tires & wheel rims! Only builder photos of a particular road number, seemed to have such painting "details", and the locomotives did NOT appear in service that way.
