@Dylobs - So far it appears that the "fix" has worked. No sign of the side panel pulling away. Time will tell. As noted earlier I did not even have to add any glue to the panel. Just put pressure on it and back in place. Looks good again. I'm guessing this was just an isolated goof.
So far I have only been able to run it in conventional mode as my TIU died several weeks ago. (That's a whole other hard luck story. 
) I will be picking up a new one on Thursday and then will be able to partake of all the features. Seems to smoke OK, but I don't know what the setting is. I have an Imperial Northern that smokes a lot more. It does come with I believe a 35mm drawbar installed but also comes with a 50mm drawbar with the note that the latter is needed if one is running on 0-31 curves. I changed mine as I do have some 0-31 on the layout. Unfortunately, and you can see it in my pictures, the drawbar has rather bright white lettering on the top side of the drawbar which I think detracts from the "authenticity/look". I will be painting over with some black as right now it just jumps out at me.
Whistle is good. Loud. Distinctive, but won't be able to play with quilling and other features until I get the TIU hooked up. I will shoot a video tomorrow and post. PFA seems on par for MTH. Top headlight does have a slow strobe effect.
