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Reply to "Restoring a Lionel PRR Prewar Steam Switcher & All Things Related to Keeping Them Running! Winter 2023"

Hi David,

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), I never had that particular problem. Every one where I needed to replace the handrails was already missing the marker lights. The best I could suggest is to have one person securely hold the locomotive down with a towel and then you, with a pair of pliers, try to twist each one out. If one/both break you should be able to drill them out like my friend and I had to do for the broken off stanchions for the locomotive project that started this thread.

Any chance you could just save the existing handrails by bending them back into shape with some needle-nose pliers (hold with one and re-shape with the other) and avoid removing the marker lights? You should be able to slide two-ply thick paper towels under the handrails while you you try to re-shape them. 

Please post whichever way you go on this. 

Tom 

  

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