My first-ever 2-rail locomotive purchase arrived last week from forum-sponsor JR Junction. Over the Memorial Day weekend I had a chance to unbox it, install a Kadee coupler on the rear, test it out (on 3-rail MTH RealTrax--that's all I had available) and shoot a few quick pictures with my iPhone. It ran and sounded great! I really liked Mario's idea of installing a Protocraft coupler on the front end, so I placed an order which is due to arrive this week.
I'll take some better photos after installing the Protocraft coupler and doing a bit of touch-up and detail painting. I also have to fashion a handle for one of the cab doors as it was missing and nowhere to be found in the box. No big deal. While I'm at it, I might remove the "tab" on each end of the frame that's supposed to represent the prototype's drop-steps and replace with more realistic ones from Atlas.
