I found it a bit interesting that Lionel went against their own tradition by painting the nose handrails and truck ladder steps silver instead of keeping them black as has been the norm for the postwar-style F3s. The flat red paint does seem to give less visual oomph again compared to how Lionel typically does it (Conventional Classics ATSF flat paint F3s notwithstanding). What kind of trucks are on the milk car? Hard to tell, but they look like the die cast generic style roller bearing trucks with all cast-in details that I've seen on a number of modern-era operating cars like the aquarium cars and some cabooses. If so that's a bit of a disappointment as I'd rather at least see postwar-type die cast trucks that they've used on some other modern era milk cars like the 9220 Borden or even more recent examples like the 29855 that were modified to use fast angle wheels if I were to get this set.
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