It's true that you lose money when you have to retool a
car. But if you're in business for the LONG RUN, a good
reputation is money in the bank. I'll bet Red Caboose
sold a lot more GS gondolas and even X29's because the
extra effort to fix the PFE reefer earned them a lot of
trust points. Proto 2000 has made their reputation on
selling ONLY accurate models. They have revised several
of their loco models.

Bottom line is that vendors may not fix everything but
they do listen to criticism and they sometimes fix stuff.

Tim O.

P.S. I have a LONG list of things that are still wrong with
current models if any vendors are interested... :-)