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IMHO, CSX 4027 is likely correct, for his reasons stated. In the end, the concept is to keep stuff straight and Shel' isn't helping at all with his own machinations and variants.
I am reluctant a bit, however, certainly not because the Kirkhams bits are the best ever fabricated, because they are just so. It would be nice to KISS. It's too late, however.
Given Shel's own hopping and skipping around, CSX 4027 is correct. Without such a sequential guide, established today as a contemporary record, the future will bring a rash of swopped bits and numbers...even more than the original cars migrated around.
Without a contemporary record, like the original AC Cars, Ltd. book-bound records we all rely on (rather than Shel's dodgy tax-induced number/parts jumble, which skill he learned from el Commendadore), the detail will be hopelessly lost in time to profit-induced memories and wishful thinking.
Sort of like today...only much worse.
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