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