@Lou1985 posted:Oddly enough the one on the product page for the C&O version from 2005 has both a Lionel IR box and a MTH tether:
20-3159-1 | MTH ELECTRIC TRAINS (mthtrains.com)
Wouldn't be the first time manufactures borrowed another company's product for a catalog illustration. Lionel used 3rd Rails SP 4-4-2 in the catalog they released their SP 4-4-2 in for the first time.
This could probably turn into a whole sub-hobby "thing" if we kept it up. I noticed Lionel using Williams Samhongsa brass Pacifics years ago, in the catalogue, and some time later, the brass Williams Masterpiece Series J3a Hudson for their then-upcoming die-cast J3a.