oibu wrote:So there will be NYC, PRR, and PC, and practically every minor historic component of N&W and SOU is included (IT, INT, VGN, etc.) , but no EL unit. Who came up with that idea?
This was discussed at length elsewhere (or perhaps earlier in this thread)..
I dont know if any official reasoning was ever given by NS, but the generally accepted theory for no EL unit
is simply because the DL&W unit already basically has the EL paint scheme..an EL unit would have been very similar to the DL&W unit.
so it could have been:
Erie & DL&W (the option chosen)
or
EL alone. (I think we all agree that one of each is better!
or
Erie & DL&W & EL - making the EL unit fairly redundant, in terms of the paintscheme.
yes, its basically the same thing as the NYC & PRR & PC units..
but the PC paintscheme is radically different from NYC and PRR..
not so with the EL unit..so the choice was made for no EL unit,
because in a sense the EL paintscheme is already being done with the DL&W unit..
makes sense to me..as an Erie & DL&W and EL fan, I have no problem with it..
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