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

[Scott wessely <noisemaker383@yahoo.com>]

If I remember correctly on my first gen E7 for BLI, it came with two pilots.  And it separated at the sill plate, where it is painted red.

Hope this helps,
SJW

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From: Duncan Cameron <d.cameron@sympatico.ca>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 6:01 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Broadway Limited CB&Q E8's (Most recent run)

 

James,

I have one of the first of the E7s they produced at it came with the pilot open and front coupler installed.

I can check whether the pilot was molded as part of the body.

If you can get the pilot off, maybe an E7 one could be swapped in.

Duncan Cameron

 

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From: James Koretsky

To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 10:52 PM

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

 

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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