A word of unsolicited advice: If this is your first scratchbuilt locomotive, do keep it simple. If you start obsessing over drawbars, you will never get #1 finished.
Later on you can build better models as your skills progress, but #1 should be as simple as it can be and still look like a credible model. I am up to #40, and am just now considering boiler tubes and flues on an O Scale model. My drawbars still require only one hand to connect or disconnect, and the real ones require major heavy duty activity. I have been widely criticized for making solid frames, but I am not ready for prototypical main frames yet.
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