David:
You are very observant, the hand railing should not be across the area above the top of the stairs the lead to the end platforms. One of my friends who recently retired from the Metro-North Railroad after working on the railroads for 42 years and hired on in 1970 with Penn-Central worked on several now long retired electric locomotives including the T-Motors that ran until 1972 and the P-Motors until 1974 pointed out the error with the end platform railings to me. He also mentioned that there is a strip of brass that runs around where the frame and the body meet and that his was starting to come loose when he removed the body to remove the battery and the battery connection and it's wires. He said that he very carefully reattached that strip of metal using a glue that is made for metal. One more thing the T-motors never had marker lights he said. T-Motor #275 that he ran had a single solid strip by the time he started with Penn-Central. That's it for now.
