The devilish thing about railroad museums is that they somehow don't think that they need to be accurate about the details of the locomotive units in their museum!
Examples on inexcusable misrepresentation:
A former Alaska RR GP7 repainted in Atlantic Coast Line purple color scheme, at the Gold Coast RR Museum in Miami, FL. This unit NEVER belonged to the ACL!
A fomer New York Central Alco RS3 in Seaboard Air Line's pullman green and yellow color scheme, at the Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum, near Bradenton, FL. This unit NEVER belonged to the SAL!
It's sorta like finding an old coat, and claiming that it was George Washington's or Abe Lincoln's, or both! No matter how you look at it, it is being just plain DISHONEST!
So, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the low nosed unit you saw actually belonged to any number of possible railroads (whoever they bought it from, or gave it to the museum).
Why would they do something like this? Because they were afraid that if they were honest and displayed a former Timbuktu & Kalamazoo RR unit in its T&K RR colors, no one would want to come to their museum to see it!
They wanted to have locomotives that their visitors could "relate to", even if they never existed in reality!
Sad, REALLY SAD!
ACLfan