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Originally Posted by Don Boose
Maybe because the color scheme of the original was not documented. The replica's color scheme is an informed guess based on known color schemes of contemporary locomotives.
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Years long discussion on an early rail modeling forum? Start talking about what color was, colors were, Russia Iron boiler jackets, exactly.
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It is a shame that neither of the original locomotives was preserved.
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Indeed.
But given they were retired and scrapped in early 1900s neither would have remained in either its original detail configuration or colors.
Or maybe even had acquired entirely new boilers and/or frames.
In fact they could have been like some legendary farm tool which is the same one great-great-great-great granddad made and in all these centuries it's only had 3 new heads and 5 new handles.