MTL's Eastern Roads Weathered Set

I am a big fan of MTL's weathered car line they introduced recently. This past week, I received the Eastern Roads four pack which has two PRR and two NYC cars. I have to admit that I love this set and the weathering. It it great! My only complaint is the MTL does try to hide the road numbers on most of their weathered cars. But that is understandable since these cars were released previously. But in real life, these road number would be legible.

I have my set sitting here with AZL's NYC GP30 up in front. What a great combo!

Thumps up to MTL on this one. I am looking forward to their next weathered sets.

Rob

ztrack wrote: My only complaint is the MTL does try to hide the road numbers on most of their weathered cars. But that is understandable since these cars were released previously. But in real life, these road number would be legible.

Rob,
Why not just fix the number (and renumber if necessaary)? The prototype patched road numbers and car data I see around these days are so badly done, that a piece of brown tape with a number on it would look like the real thing. It wouldn't even need to be straight.

Mark

Mark it is the collector in me. I just won't modify the paint and finish. That is another reason why I love the weathered stock. Since it is factory finished this way, it satisfies 'that keep it as it came from the factory' need while giving me weathered stock that I love.

Note, I am a collector/operator. I do run my trains!

Rob

ztrack wrote: Mark it is the collector in me. I just won't modify the paint and finish.

Simply fix Rob, just buy two. One to collect and the other to renumber & weather. Hmmm, I guess you'd have to buy three then... two to collect (one plain & one weathered) and one to renumber/weather. And then I'm sure the ones you personally weather would become collectable to many as well.

Joe I think you may be depleting my model train budget.

I may actually do what you have suggested. I have been wanting to weather a few cars. I have a Tom Mann weathered boxcar here that really motivates me.

Rob

ztrack wrote: Mark it is the collector in me. I just won't modify the paint and finish. /quote]

Rob,
I can appreciate your view. Even though I don't consider myself a collector, I have a very hard time to modify my rolling stock unless I know the process is completely reversable or I have duplicate units.
Sitting at a UP crossing recently, I watched an old Cotton Belt GP and a half dozen cars, all heavily weathered with patched data and thought that their patched data looked like a poorly applied decal job. Assuming that the MTL weathering is as durable as their other paint jobs, I would think that just doing decals would be reversable. Although I must admit, I haven't tried it yet myself.
Mark