Very, very nice. I guess what drives me crazy modifying complicated models is taking apart and reassembling over and over ! You have some patience!
I took apart a Great Northern 4-6-0 E-8 I scratch-built years ago to finally illuminate the headlamp, and for the life of me could not remember the clever ways I hid some of the fasteners. to remove the headlamp to carve out the inside , I had to take apart everything but the axles on the frame --the cylinder block had to come loose because the boiler is attached as one , and the drive is hidden by sliding the motor and half the gearbox into the boiler before attaching to the frame . The wires interfered, so I had to modify the motor mount and forward weight.---And your big engine has twice the number and size plus five times the electronics! Yikes!
So I reassembled it for the fourth time (during construction it may have been assembled 150 times), then put it on the track. Great !!! it now has lights and .....smoke !!! So cool, but there is no smoke unit ..... OK, time to take it apart again --I think I accidentally stripped a wire when slipping the weight in and it shorted .
So, anyway, great work Sarah !
Regards, J J
