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I think Joe says right in his post "modifed chassis is in house", which implies to me that it is not the same as the one on the model in the photo.
"...modified chassis are in house..."And if the shell fits on an unmodified chassis, according to everything Tehachapifan has told us, then the shell would have to be really wide. That's even more scary than it being on the modified chassis in the photo posted.
Except for rule number 4 of the "Guide to making model trains"... which clearly states "Ask 3 modellers what ________ is correct and get 23 answers, all of which are likely wrong....
I suspect than when Joe posts something like this he is expecting neither "Ooh Joe that's awesome...YOU'RE awesome....can I have your autograph?" nor "oh GOOD GAWD what were you thinking!?!?". Anything in between those is probably valuable to the effort.
No doubt about that. I was referring in general to the comment that a number of people have made over the years that goes something like " if they'd only have asked me I could have told them that XXXX was the right yyyyy".... Not to be outdone, person two gives you exactly the opposite answer two minutes later and both are absolutely convinced that they are right.... By way of example; we recently were working on locating a railway logo on a upcoming product... where do we put their logo.... you get the actual company painting document; compare it with a photo.... great...um... except, what about this photo....? Oh, um... Hey; then there is this photo......oh...um.. HMMM.... Hey expert 1 says that we should use that photo - it's the right one... But expert two says only if you were in "Nowehereville NB" because that shop never got the company painting diagram... use THIS photo..... except that this photo shows the logo 12" higher.... Let's ask the SIG.... what's that; they have seven possible answers............. More often than not the "right answer" isn't clear; because there may not be ONE right answer.....I firmly believe that more often than not there isn't one standard for many things in railroading (Ok; some dimensional stuff, physical measurements may be consistent but little else seems to be - light position, location of door handles, gaskets, stack heights... we've seen wild and wide variations with no explainations.... its like when the L&N SIG had two former L&N paint shop employee speak to them and try and help solve the debate about what was L&N blue... they had photo's, paint chips, formulas, paint company documents and after the two old boys looked at it all they said "L&N blue was whatever me and Harry could buy at the paint store in town and mix with whatever we had left in the paint drum....."Who said this isn't a fun industry to work in ?
Now I'm confused.Should I be happy or concerned.