I spent my entire life calling it ‘Reeding’ until I started reading this forum.
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Do Kitbashes count as fantasy models if they aren’t based on actual locomotives/railcars?
It’s a funny thing: I never had trouble distinguishing pronunciation of the Reading Railroad from the Reader Railroad as a child (when the latter was a frequent subject in Trains Magazine), but I had a terrible comeuppance when we hit ‘The Ballad or Reading Gaol’ in high school… I was so proud I got the first half right, but oh! what a come-uppance just moments later!
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Yes!
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There’s something you won’t see these days…
@BN7150, Those models are really nice. Do you use them on your layout by chance?
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It’s a commercial print, right (not custom)? Not that I’m aware of unless you hand paint over it or reprime that area in the same background color and find the logo online and make your own decal.
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@Brianw, thanks for listening to my complaint. I guess that’s all you’re saying. It’s not the model I wanted, so I don’t want to go through the trouble.
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Not cost-effectively. You’d need to take high-resolution pictures of the car sides, separate the colors, realign them, and reprint – you won’t have the ability to print or stamp directly on the car side, and you’d need a decal printer like an ALPS that can handle metallic ‘ink’ or find a custom decal service that does.
I suspect part of the ‘collector value’ of this car is in the factory lettering – warts and all. Are they all misregistered in the way your example is?
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As @Woke_Hoagland hinted, I could certainly source a well-printed model cheaply on the second-hand market, but that would be a pain in my pride as a modeller 
Perhaps the value of this model is that we can talk about it here.
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The WSOR cars certainly existed in 1:1 scale. I even derailed the Athearn car…To be fair, the track fell apart under us.
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Here are five citations from MR magazine, which introduced the prototype.
Page 9 of the Oct. 2007 issue
Page 8 of the Jan. 2009 issue
Page 106 of the April 2004 issue
Page 6 of the Mar. 1994 issue
Page 51 of the May 1995 issue
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Welcome back on board WSOR_3801.
Welcome back, @WSOR_3801