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daylight posted:
overlandflyer posted:

i have no facts to present, but companies like this often do extensive research and detail models of locomotives from various periods in time.  note, for instance some GG1 prototypes that went through up to 1/2 a dozen or more liveries in their lifetimes.  i would not write off the possibility that the prototype of this H8 class model did not display white lettering sometime in its career.

i have seen the Accucraft Allegheny running and while it has some flaws, i'll always take a live steamer over an electric locomotive in #1 gauge.

Overlandflyer, do you recall the flaws. I must be naïve but flaws in an $8,000. locomotive

with a live steam model some concessions made are either structurally essential or cost prohibitive.  unlike the Aster models, Accucraft does not use the articulated joints to feed steam to the forward engines, but in their defense, it is done rather well.  cosmetically, the Accucraft model looks fine.  believe me, when one of these locomotives is operating, very few people watching seem to care about the rivet count.

if you saw that BRASSTRAINS ad and considered the white gloves that were included an essential adjunct to your modeling, live steam probably isn't for you.

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