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[quote user="kbfcsme"] LarryI DO have fun in the hobby, daily! I just can't get my head around the fact that some manufacturers build what may be some good engines, but put totally rediculous or fake paint scheme or road names on them. What's next? A great running 4-4-0 in CSX yn3 paint? Or how about a GG1 in SP bloody nose? I guess what I am getting at here is why can't they be decorated correctly to start with so that the guys who just want to run trains AND the more discering modelers can all enjoy the same product. Wouldn't they sell more that way?? Plus, as the model owners tastes change over time, (I've witnessed this several times)there wont be a delayed "buyers remorse" for buying an engine that may need to be modified or repainted to fit into a prototypical operating scheme.It cant take that much more effort to just do it right.   [/quote]The companies do this because they need to recoup some of their costs for the tooling of a particular locomotive by trying to give it a larger market appeal. For the most part only Pennsy and later Amtrak and Conrail owned and operated the GG-1s as you mentioned and they pretty much only operated in the Northeast Corridor. They were also retired, donated to museums, or scrapped by the early 1980s. In order to get their money back then make a profit they'll need to sell alot of GG-1s. So unless everybody suddenly decides to start modelling either Pennsy, Penn Central, Early Amtrak, or Early Conrail in the Northeast Corridor you're gonna need to run some other roadname choices or raise up the prices. Sadly this is one of the many compromises we have to deal with. Whether we like it or not companies like Athearn, Atlas, IHC, and all the others are businesses mainly interested in making money and locos that aren't selling aren't making money either.
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