ROGERW posted:I just wanna know?? What is the big deal about the ditch lights?? Am I missing something?? As I said in an earlier post, I have 3 of these engines. One has a headlight and mars light, one has just a headlight, and the recent engine has ditch lights. I think that everyone knows that the original prototypical engines didn't have ditch lights. I'm just trying to understand what the issue??......................rogerw.
I think the issue is that when someone spends $1,000.00 (!!!) for an E-8/9 ABA, they'd like it to be prototypically correct. In real life, some of the engines had MARS lights, some did not. Hopefully MTH got that correct, and it's correct for the prototype. That's fine - it's just staying true to the real thing. But adding lights that were never used in real-life operation, now you're on a trip to Never-Never Land, and that's an entirely different matter to some folks. For others, it doesn't matter, but for those who want their expensive engines to be realistic, it spoils it.
(Too bad MTH didn't put white strobes on the roof, like the Amtrak toasters had - now that would have been cool. 
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