Nostalgia & History > Before Spencer Pt 6 NS 4270-4271

1. MD DOT 7100-7185 after being rebuilt at the GE Shops Hornell, NY May 16, 1981
2. MD DOT 7185 GE Shops Hornell, NY May 16, 1981
3. After being sold to St. Louis Car Co. SLCC 101 St. Louis, MO June 20, 2001

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4. SLCC 101 St. Louis, MO June 20, 2001
5. SLCC 102 St. Louis, MO June 20, 2001

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It's sure a shame that someone couldn't just steal the basic plans for that body shape and make a new passenger train that would fit the same mold. Why does everything needs to look like a train of Animal Crackers boxes these days?

lwilton Wrote:
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> It's sure a shame that someone couldn't just steal
> the basic plans for that body shape and make a new
> passenger train that would fit the same mold. Why
> does everything needs to look like a train of
> Animal Crackers boxes these days?


I'd be satisfied if they could just paint a straight line on a passenger car/locomotive.
Seems like every scheme now has waves or squiggles.

For the record: those MARC engines (ex-B&O) are all retired; however the 7100 was a cab only unit with a HEP used in service up until two years ago. The 7100 has been donated back to the B&O R.R. Museum in Baltimore by MARC and will probably be repainted into B&O Colors at some point. It is still a motorless unit and really does not need to be repainted right now as the B&O museum should concentrate on repairing and painting B&O passenger cars that continue to rust away. But as I have stated many times, the B&O R.R. Museum is mismanaged and their priorities are not what they should be.