Has anyone ordered or received their Ferdinand Magellan Presidential car from Lowell Smith? I think this is an interesting car, the new tooling looks relatively accurate to prototype pictures. How accurate is it?
A friend who grew up in Corpus Christi says she saw President Roosevelt's train come around THIS CURVE past the old cotton compress, to get from the Missouri Pacific route into town, onto the Texas-Mexican Rwy, to go out to the Navy's branch line out to the Air Training Station for a meeting with the President of Mexico. During world War II.
I don't know what is going on with MT but this car is definitely a foobie. Odd that they would make new tooling (another car has errors as well but that's another topic) and not try to make the new car look like something that somebody used but instead they made a Lowell Smith Special once again, providing a car that some would settle for but not what could have been far more accurate. A lot of work went into it.... couldn't some of the same effort have gone towards making the model look like something?
LOL. But it doesn't cost anything more to do it right... and would have made the model more attractive.
But the Presidential car is a one off............MT already has that observation car in their inventory , so the foobie version (paint and decals) is an easy do. Making it "right" would be a major retool. I understand what you are saying, but how many people even know what the Ferdinand Magellan IS, let alone what it looked like.
The car body isn't the same as their regular observation. The doors have been relocated to the prototype position and the steps replaced with toolboxes. The speakers are wrong, the Windows look close to prototype.
