What Mike is saying is that to be historically accurate it should have been restored Red. The problem is people CHANGE history. Just like on the C&TS. Folks argue that because the C&TS has been around for 30 years that the names on things like the water tank should be C&TS. Gee I don't recall that in the 1960's!
With enough changes like this, nobody will ever remember the original names of anything!
Of course one can argue that the excursion train itself isn't historically accurate to start with, therefore I guess anything goes, right!!
I guess I don't see why it can't still operate on the passenger train being red! No accounting for taste I suppose.
Greg, I like it Real, Scholl