I am learning so much by visiting the Gold Coast Museum that I never noticed before. For instance, the firebox on a Pacific has all kind of little warts on it that look like plumbing pipe plugs. Some of them are painted black, and some of them are painted silver. Those sand domes actually have little pipes that lead down to the driver wheels. And on and on…
Here is the diesel that they let you ride in, and drive if you are really good.
That’s the colors MTH nabbed for their MTH livery. 
Some stuff in museums gets a slightly different repaint but still an excellent source if you are luckky enough to have one located near you.
I go up to steamtown from time to time, but I miss the old steamtown in Vermont. The scenery up there was much better!
It sure is fun to have a museum to crawl around. I recommend the Illinois Railway Museum - I wish I had the capacity to volunteer there. http://irm.org - located just 15 minutes west of me admist the cornfields of Union, IL.
Hello Skyray: That sure looks like a fun way to spend some time, you’ll just have to host a summit next winter & take us for a ride.[8D][tup] Kind regards Steve
I just visited the IRM website.They have a LOT of great stuff[:D]! I am a member of two museums,OERM in Perris,CA,and the Feather River Rail Society,which operates the museum in Portola,CA.Both are great places to visit[:)].