Hot Water posted:It might be time to point out that MTH probably used the Santa Fe painted "F Unit", currently on display at the California State Railroad Museum, as an example for technical details. As has been pointed out by many, MANY people; you can NOT always go by how ANY piece of railroad equipment appears in ANY museum, as being totally accurate for the give era being represented. If you want it totally correct, then you MUST refer to actual photographs of the item, from the exact time frame, you are attempting to model. Some of the worst abominations are pieces that are "on display" in parks & towns all over the country!
People tend to "restore" antique cars like that - what ever looks good to them. Then others with the same type of car "restore" their cars to look like the inaccurate cars they have seen and cannot be persuaded that there are sometimes glaring inaccuracies.
Drives me nuts.
