Well, I don't find this to be a "yawn" at all.
The L&N locos do indeed look a bit "blueish" in the catalogue, especially the NW2.
I remember this paint scheme quite clearly - it was gray, not blue or blue-ish.
The lettering on the NW2 hood was questionable, but my L&N expert says that they used
both vertical and slanted letters. I haven't checked this out in Prince's "Diesel Locomotives
of the Louisvile and Nashville" yet.
I suspect that what we're seeing is simply "catalogue drift" in the color, but I just don't
trust Lionel to do a really tight, bang-up MTH-level job anymore. The ICG GP30 was going to be mine - then they refused to put the correct trucks on it, and the steps don't line up...
never mind. These locos may, indeed, come out "blue".
(The "L&N" on the 0-8-0's coal bunker is still wrong, two catalogues later.) I pretty much stick with MTH on pre-orders (and few of them) of any expensive piece. I will probably wait
to see the NW2's color and execution, so no pre-order, which is not good.
P.S. - MTH is sharper than Lionel these days, but it was them that brought us a Southern green SD24 some years ago; the Southern's SD24's were black only. Just because it says
"Southern Railway" doesn't mean it was green.
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