Originally Posted by TheGandyDancer:
Simple, they saw the harder to obtain brown version that was modified and bid big money on it thinking it was some sort or legitimate variation. It was not.
What part was modified? It MAY have been on a wrong chassis, but the value is in the brown 2257 body with the brown stack. A chassis can easily be changed to make it more "correct," even though I've not found a lot of consistency in the unusally-numbered and colored SP cabooses to say that particular chassis was definitely "wrong."
TRW