4: The parts of the weight kit laid out before assembly.
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green, others red, or scarlet. I’m of the scarlet camp, and so
was IHC when they painted the cars.
I used the interior kits that were availabe and simple to install.
However, I opted out of lighting the insides of the cars. I will go
over the interior detailing in Part 2.
I also went to a local hobby store and purchased enough Kadee
#5/508 Talgo mounting kits to redo all the couplers. McHenrys
would have been another option.
I set the cars aside at this time to focus on the engine. It wasn’t
until 2010 that I got back to the passenger cars. While work-
ing with another set of IHC cars, for IC Panama Limited, I found
that the cars were too light. This prompted an online search
and I found Adair Shops. (IHC went out of business in 2009).
Each weight system for a given car is a bunch of metal pieces in
different sizes and shapes, and putting them into the car is like
