Some folks offer fading and weathering as excuses for different shades of paint (particularly lighter shades, of course) on these models. However, these engines aren't made to be models of weathered engines - they're made to be models of what brand new engines would look like. If people want to run engines with different shades of paint and pretend some of them are weathered, that's fine, but that's not an excuse for manufactures using wrong colors to begin with.
MTH isn't the only offender with respect to Milwaukee engines. Lionel has been painting some of their Milwaukee engines in too light a shade of orange lately as well (part of Lionel's well documented problem with colors over the past few years). Buyers know - I've noticed that many of these Milwaukee engines (GP9s for example) remained available well after other liveries of the same offering sold out.
