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Post by markm on Mar 8, 2020 11:38:32 GMT -5
I've been playing with the idea of creating one of the Gold Spike Centennial trains in Z. I've been going over the road numbers of the equipment used in these trains and find a reasonable number of Z scale cars actually match the consists of these three trains. But it got me wondering: how does AZL choose the road numbers they produce? Availability of prototype data? A particular route or region or trains? Dumb luck? I've rarely found a mistake.Just curious.
Mark
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Post by Hans Riddervold (AZL) on Mar 9, 2020 15:39:05 GMT -5
Hi Mark, What maters to us is to find identical locomotives from railroads. Sounds easy, but it may not be the case. Differences in color schemes, prototypical "artwork" and visible options actually makes this process lengthy. Sometimes we do intentionally release locomotives with different details like the D&RGW GP7. But we are trying to avoid that. We take our own photos in Southern California and the D.C. area. A lot of our locomotives will portray road numbers we have seen in operation. The net is your friend and not your friend. A correctly dated photo is usually our best reference. Early on we looked to other model railroad manufacturers, but there were just too many mistakes. Thus we do our own research. We do mistakes as well, but we really are trying hard to avoid it. My worst so far (and long time ago): NYC nose logo "New York Entral"  Best, Hans |
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