I always think the best test of your favorite idea is to ask yourself whether you would put your own money into it if you had it ,not as a vanity project but as a hard nosed business decision,as if your companies survival depended on it .I think suddenly it would become a lot less attractive to invest in ,rather than another "out of scale" but sellable locomotive if it was your own 50 grand or so and all it entails in terms of another highly wanted mass market loco not being produced however much it is damned by a few purists . A manufacturer once told me that he mainly ignored the "why dont you make a ......? " as from past experience less than half the people who requested ended up buying it and no-one else was interested .If a request coincided with his own favourable gut feeling ,it stood a chance of being made at least .
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