>What is this fetish with petty matters that all railfans have? Does it
>matter as long as it's running again?
Richard,
Not a fetish at all, just wondering why the indecision. No it doesn't
matter as long as it's running again..... but it was *SRV themselves*
that came up with the reason for a number change. I don't care what
number it is, but once a number is selected (whatever number that
happens to be), stick with it.
R707,761,766,K153,183,184,190,J515,Y112,3801, to name a few, all seem
to keep the same number once the number is decided. (On Saturday's
trip, the number boards on the headlight read 639, and the buffer
plate read 658....not nitpicking, just noting the lack of
consistency.)
>It was originally going to be 658 for a while but due to requests from some
>of the volunteers that helped restore it (the people worth listening to),
>it will operate just a few trips as 658.
A ha, thank you, Richard, for going a long way towards answering
answering my original question (at last <g!>). Did any of the
volunteers express an opinion about the colour? (No, don't paint the
bloody thing again, that's not what I'm asking.)
For the record, I think that K183 looks kinda swish in its blue
livery... I'd love to see it with a blue set of cars. K190, well a
tad bright, but again the paying public (now they're also worth
listening to) love it.....talk to Bernard Reilly, and he'll tell you
the "green machine" has the biggest impact amongst his paying
passengers. So, given the desire to impress the public (not the
railfan) with the above engines, I was surprised that the Canadian Red
colour was not re-adopted. I don't have a difficulty with the loco
being black (the purpose of quoting my 4yo's desire to see it Canadian
Red was intended as mirroring the reaction a member of the public not
acquainted with the historical nuances might have).
>I notice that in the UK when they rebadge a loco it 's a news event.
So by alternating the numbers, you hope for repeated news events!
> Here it's an excuse for a whinge!
Hmm, methinks you protesteth too much: as I said above it was SRV who
impressed upon the public the need to change its number: all I did
was ask why the ambivalence, hesitancy, lack of resolution,
vacillation about the final selection of a number
Regards
Yuri