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I am all in favor of weathering locos and rolling stock that "populate" a layout and are not intended to spend their service life in a display case, hoping they´d eventually appreciate in value. That said, weathering can easily be overdone and is not easily reversed, should you not like the result. For that reason, it is quite important to determine the degree of weathering before putting the whole foot into weathering. Locos and cars don´t look pristine for a long time. A day out in the weather can be enough to steal the nice look they had when leaving the shop. A used, but not abused look and the heavily battered and beaten up look are miles apart. For my prototype, it´s an easy choice. Swiss trains always look spick and span, so weathering must be really subtle if not hardly noticeable. My "oldest" loco, which had about 40 years of service life in the period I am modeling, has a slightly patched up paint job and a bit of grime around the louvers - that´s all!
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