Which is why I continue suggesting trying to find a way to make them not ornaments...
Much as I'd genuinely love to see a maroon AM9 / blue AM3 operating upon the main line or a dedicated heritage railway, the sad reality is that the scale of investment, versus the RoI, just doesn’t add up.
Hence my earlier posts regarding viability of preservation,.in years to come.
Perhaps not in my lifetime, but maybe in generations hence, the average paying public won't care what they see or ride on.
"Preservation in 2080" might be EV vehicles sporting pseudo 20th century train bodies.
On the plus side, a 3D printed high fidelity 503 might appear.