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FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« on: May 12, 2013, 09:07:23 AM »
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Has anybody else who has received this model notice that the P in Pennsylvania on one side is almost covered up? This is none to impressive, heck they got the promotional scheme correct!  :RUEffinKiddingMe:

A thread on Trainboard about the same topic: http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?150843-ERROR-ON-THE-FOX-VALLEY-PENNSY-ES44AC
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Re: FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2013, 11:07:41 AM »
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 :facepalm:
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Re: FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2013, 06:40:13 PM »
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Why us?
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Re: FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2013, 06:47:07 PM »
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Quote from: chicken45 on May 12, 2013, 06:40:13 PM
Why us?

To take your mind off of not having any new K4s.
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Re: FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2013, 07:36:45 PM »
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Re: FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2013, 07:53:38 PM »
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Maybe it won't be so obvious IRL. Mine shipped this week.
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Re: FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« Reply #6 on: May 12, 2013, 09:25:54 PM »
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 I don't know. The pre-production pictures show the PENNSYLVANIA to be in the wrong place:
http://brooklynlocomotiveworks.com/blwphotos/FVM-GEVO-PRR.jpg
Shamelessly stolen "borrowed" from the BLW website. Seems they should have been aware.
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Re: FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2013, 10:13:19 PM »
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Quote from: chicken45 on May 12, 2013, 06:40:13 PM
Why us?
Everybody else is mad they are not modeling Pennsy...
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Re: FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2013, 06:29:31 PM »
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This is a first!  An incorrect fantasy unit!

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Re: FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2013, 06:50:45 PM »
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A picture of the offending unit:


What the real thing looks like, snagged of of railpictures.net:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=395428&nseq=86
« Last Edit: May 13, 2013, 06:52:54 PM by pjm20 »
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Re: FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2013, 08:07:46 PM »
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Quote from: ljudice on May 13, 2013, 06:29:31 PM
This is a first!  An incorrect fantasy unit!

Lou, LOL!  :D
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Re: FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2013, 08:39:51 PM »
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At least it keeps you distracted from the incorrect handrail  :D
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Re: FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« Reply #12 on: May 13, 2013, 09:19:45 PM »
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Quote from: Smike on May 13, 2013, 08:39:51 PM
At least it keeps you distracted from the incorrect handrail  :D

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Guess I'm too dumb to know the difference!  ;)

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He asks excitedly "Did you say Ménage à Trois?"
No, I said "Ed's Law."

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Re: FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2013, 09:37:03 PM »
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I'm sympathetic.  I have great admiration for FVM; the NKP unit is gorgeous, as is the Central of Georgia, and their Hiawatha set is really path-breaking for the industry.  Their use of the 6-pin connector for DCC is what the entire industry should be doing.  But there's no excuse for getting this wrong, and I can see why folks would be annoyed.  They really ought to do another run of shells (or just the main body part of the shell) and replace the defective part. 

John C.
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Re: FVM Pennsy Heritage Unit
« Reply #14 on: May 13, 2013, 09:40:10 PM »
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I seriously doubt this would pass by Matt as the decorated samples came back, so it has to be a factory error...

I bet our manufacturers are up at night worrying about this kind of problem....
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