Corrected a Years-Old Mistake

 So, I posted this picture (below) on the facebook group "Proto-Freelance Model Railroading" just over a week ago.  It's a new group for me and it was the first post I've put up on there.

The facebook posting has had well over 1000 views so far, and a bunch of comments left as well. I imagine that you have probably seen my pictures of my JSSX 813 before on the blog here, as I know I've shown lots and lots of them. It is my favourite engine, and I've always been really pleased with it.  

Everyone that's seen in person on the layout has noticed it and no one has ever said anything critical about it.  Until now.It only took one of the facebook comments to kind of bring me down a notch.

Here's that facebook comment from Rg Hough... "I have to ask, is that fuel tank on backwards?"

And then Doug Stark explained that "where there is a single fuel fill, it tends to be at the front. Air tank on EMD second+ generation typically offset to the rear of the tank/unit".

What?!!!

It's been this way ever since I painted the engine several years ago.  I didn't realize it was wrong, and no one ever mentioned this before.  It's really an easy enough thing to fix.  The fuel tank is just friction-fitted, and slips right off with a gentle pull.  No screws to remove or anything.

So now I'm thinking should I go back through my pictures of 813, re-do them, and delete the ones with the fuel tank backwards.  I'll maybe re-do some of them.

Here's that facebook post picture, re-staged and done over with the fuel tank corrected.

And since the backwards fuel tank was visible in the blog header photo, here it is staged and re-taken.

Well, the picture is almost the same

Also, I purchased this Atlas model from Sean, and received it last week.Atlas GE Dash 8 40-B, it should eventually look good with JSSX 5068 (below)

Same Dash 8 40-B model, different number which I repainted some time ago

That'll wrap things up for now.  Have a great week.