When looking for equipment for your railroad do you go for asthedics or functionality. Would you prefer a locomotive or rolling stock to be pleasing to the eye or are you more concerned with what would have been reality on the big Lionel set.
For me, as much as I like seeing and learning about actual prototype practice, the train has to have a certain eye pleasing appeal.
For instance, a train made up of miss-matched passenger cars and a Geep is not eye pleasing to me, as much as I know, it was probably in the majority especially toward the end of the fifties and certainly in the sixties.