Chuck Sartor posted:The broken stanchions can be pushed out from the inside of the body. Lionel does have a stanchion chart on the parts website.
I think the C.C.C.StL. in the waning years of steam leased some P&LE 2-8-4's for a while. Both New York Central System.
Note - the P&LE 2-8-4's (class A-2) looked nothing like the NKP Berks that tend to be the "prototype" for nearly every 3RO 2-8-4, no matter how inaccurately. But, the NKP, Erie, Pere Marquette (later owned by C&O) Berks all have a (literal) family resemblance. I'm sure some of them bumped into the PRR.
The P&LE A-2 Berks have been produced by MTH a couple of times. Great models - and they are even green, as the actual locos were. The P&LE was controlled by the NYC, but never merged into it, and went their own way in minor ways on locomotive specs.
The P&LE Berk was designed by the NYC, specifically design boss Paul Kiefer, who brought us the NYC Hudsons, the later Mohawks and the Niagara. The A-2 favors the Niagara externally quite a bit, but is a different beast internally, designed for a very different job.
