Originally Posted by KOOLjock1:
I'm not sure what your perceived issue is. Here's the 611 from 1981:
And here's the later #612 (1994 I think?)
Other than the fact that Lionel now has the tooling for a beefed-up die-cast tender (#746RS which was matched to the #238E repros), I think they did okay with what they had at the time.
Jon
That's not the locomotive Kevin's talking about.
He's addressing a serious cosmetic issue with the latest Scale version, not a model from the last century.
Rusty