Well if you want to talk crude. The Consolidation has no provision to add a front coupler. Doubleheading on my road is important and I like my motive power to be adaptable. I decided to pick up a couple of pilots at last years half price sale. I settled on one from a Mountain as I could get the right coupler height. I run Kadee’s. Took most of a morning to come up with a bracket. When I was confident it would work I hacked the factory steps off the running boards. The top step is off as they had to be lowered. It works well and the Rutland’s did have pilot steps.
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