quote:Why no working Marker lights? MTH included many models with Working Marker lights. for the price you would tend to think Lionel would have done the same
As I explained in one of the other "DD35A Threads", Lionel has mixed the eras/time frame on this model. Considering the "as delivered" front hand rail on the Engineer's side, there should indeed be "working class lights".
However, in the early to mid 1970s, use of class lights & flags where "eliminated" throughout U.S. railroads, and the class lights where removed from their housings with round blanking plates being inserted in the rubber weather strip molding. Some railroads simply just painted over the whole class light assembly (UP?), after removing the appropriate electric control swithes in the cab.
So, Lionel's DD35A model should either have working class lights to go with the "as delivered right front hand rail arrangement", or the right front hand rail should have been "corrected as modified by UP" to reflect later years of service. Either way, I still think Lionel did an excellent job overall, on this model.
