If you choose to use the Details West scale coupler buffer
plates. you will have to fill part of the hole for the coupler box.
If you decide to stay with the Proto 2000 coupler boxes, you
will not need to make these modifications. Cut four pieces of
.030x.060” styrene strip .140” long and glue to the sides of the
coupler box holes. Remove .025” from the top of the coupler
box opening. Install the Details West coupler buffer plates.
Install the Cannon anticlimbers.
Assembling the shell
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25. Cab and short hood right side view.
Pan-Am Railways SD45R - 12
MRH-Oct 2014
