Fred-377206

Maybe I should have written "in general "instead of "always" because out of sheer luck a consist could be right. I understand that model companies try to utulise stock they alraedy make, but that should not be a reason to falsify history. By the way: I am a bit of a CIWL expert and can judge right or wrong CIWL consists. I would not know whether other, non CIWL, sets that are made are correct or not. Regards Fred

For many years RivaRossi and later Jouef made very nice and detailed CIWL cars like sleepers, restaurants, Pullmans and baggage cars. They also make these cars available in sets with names like The Blue Train or The Etoile du Nord. Does anyone know why these trains always have a wrong consist, i.e. a wrong configuration of cars? One would assume it must be possible to find out the correct consist when configuring a set. Regards Fred