Re: 346 tender back in Golden

Hey Jeff, relax. Everybody is entitled to their opinion, even you. Just because we choose to disagree with you doesn't make these opinions any less valuable or real.

It doesn't matter who made the choice to duplicate the patches. No one is going to take their birthday away. They provided the money, they get to choose. Just because I think that makes it a model, not a restoration, doesn't mean they will change their mind either, but don't expect me to change mine.

It also doesn't matter who actually built it. They did a beautiful job building it, and following what they were commissioned to do.

I also didn't say I disagreed with using stainless to build it. Just that it is a model, not the real thing.

Now, if they found a NOS (new old stock) tender cistern in an old warehouse somewhere, and installed it behind the loco... that would be a restoration.