@DaveJfr0 posted:You bring up some interesting ideas.
First, I think if Scott is able to sell enough 8-car sets and SOU add-on cars to meet the minimum building requirement, and doesn't get enough orders for any other roads in add-ons, then perhaps thats something he could consider. I obviously don't speak for him. There may also be a roadblock in that the factory is thinking its a part and may not allow Scott to produce interchangeable name plates. I guess it all depends on if there are enough email requests for the other roads to get added to the reservation page, and then to see those roads get enough reservations to be made.
Second, as for the roof color, I would still leave them stainless as that would maximize the in-service lifespan these cars had from the 50's all the way up until about 1971/1972. Not every car got a black roof at the same time. It's also much easier to put 4 pieces of blue tape and spray a black roof than it is to take a black roof and backdate the roof with a color that actually matches the carbody. :-)
That will look pretty neat pulling the Crescent. The WofA had a neat blue/silver (gray?) scheme on their locomotives. You know what else would look cool? Some Pennsy modelers buying this train and putting it behind GG1's. This train ran all the way from New York City Penn Station down to New Orleans and it would get switched at Washington DC for some electric power.
I also look forward and will make do with whatever is produced.
I also prefer the stainless steel roof color. Were the black painted roofs really only a 1970's change? So, the roofs were unpainted stainless steel up until the early 1970's? I know a lot of people look at black and white photos of stainless steel passenger cars and swear they have black roofs when they were really just dirty roofs! It seems then that the roofs should be unpainted stainless steel, unless you are modeling a 1970's train.
