[CBQ] Broadway Limited CB&Q E8's (Most recent run)

[James Koretsky <jameskoretsky@comcast.net>]

Hi All,

I received two CB&Q E8's from the latest release of E Units from 
Broadway Limited for a customer. The customer asked for me to program 
them and change the couplers to Kadee's (If they weren't fitted with 
Kadee's from the factory, which they're not by the way), before sending 
them on to him.

As I took the first one out of it's box, I noticed that it has the 
closed passenger pilot on the front of it and it looks really nice. 
Looking behind the pilot,  I noticed that the pilot seems to be cast as 
part of the body, and that the coupler covers, are molded as part of the 
pilot, they don't seem to be operable.

I checked the other unit and it's the same.

There's no way to open them or set these units up for double heading. 
They don't even come with a coupler box for the front of the locomotive, 
even though the frame mounting point is there.

Is this truly the case, or am I not looking at this correctly? I don't 
see anything in the manual or paperwork that comes with them about 
opening them up, and I don't see any extra parts in the boxes, so I'm 
trying to figure out what I should be doing next for the customer, as he 
was planning on double heading these units.

Were previous runs of E8's setup the same way from Broadway? These are 
the first units that I've handled in person from Broadway Limited and 
the detailing is nice but this is kind of an issue.

Any comments.

James



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