New Lionel F-7's and E-7's

[Anonymous]

I'm pleased to see that Lionel has gone with an F-7 model to complement the earlier F-3's - this will eventually add a lot more options as to roadnames and numbers - especially considering that a good number of railroads had F-7's, but not Phase II F-3's. By the way, the Santa Fe set has the number 332 on the lead A unit. Can anyone see the numbers/prefixes on the B-units? If I squint really hard, it looks like the powered B-unit is #332B, and the Breakdown B unit is #333B (I assume that the non-powered A unit is #333L, and the non-powered B-unit is #333A) - given that the prototypical sets would have been 332LAB and 333LAB - [for those of you who aren't quite as obscesed about Santa Fe locomotive numbering, A or cab units on the Santa Fe had the suffixes L or C, whereas the B units had suffixes of A and B. Therefore, locomotive set #332LAB was an ABB set of F-7's].

For the E-7's, I hope the nose isn't as long on the actual models as shown in the catalog!!!