Bob Delbridge posted:Beautiful!!! Mine should be here any day now.
What did you have to do to put Kadees on them?
I didn't (install Kadees). What you are seeing on the rear of the observation car is the scale coupler that comes stock on this particular car. It looks like a Kadee but I am not sure it is. The other couplers are the stock GGD 3 rail style.
I'm getting 3-rail cars but run on code 148 2-rail track, so I need to (1) put Kadees on and (2) remove the center rollers. That means no lights so (3) I'll have to figure out how to light that gorgeous OBS car's rear end!
Sacrilege! These cars were meant to run with full lighting. But I assume that you can power them off the wheels with an appropriate DC-DC conversion module.
When I saw the diner photo I almost went into shock, WHAT'S an antenna doing on top of (my) SAL car?!?!?!?! But the only photo I can find of a real one kinda shows an antenna on the roof,either that or there's a handrail behind the car and it's an optical illusion.
No, that's no illusion; there is an antenna there. Shows up slightly better in the additional photo below:
I have not researched the prototype sufficiently to know whether the antenna is completely accurate but I have learned to trust how streamlined cars are rendered by the best HO car builders, whose research I have consulted for other named trains. In this case I have found the below images, which although not of the same car as GGD modeled nonetheless show the antenna in place:
