I noticed Saturday night at CVSR that the 765's two upper number boards were not illuminated. My MTH 765 does not have illuminated upper boards and I always thought this was incorrect. Were they ever illuminated on the 765?
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Yes the number boards light up. A quick google image search showed lots of pictures of 765 with illuminated number boards
And each number board was lit with three incandescent bulbs. The only reason I know this is that I took a movie of NKP #700 at track speed one summer evening in 1957 and the number board on the engineer's side of the smokebox was fully open, and I photographed the bulbs.
The number boards on each side of the headlight casing, on the other hand, were painted over in black, on every NKP Berk I ever saw. Models always seem to get this wrong, but it is easy to correct!
