I have successfully separated the shell without breaking anything; once you find the right 4 screws it separates easily with no force (mistakenly took out the wrong screw under the cab). The toughest part was putting the loco back on its wheels and keeping the boiler in place; big danger to the front boiler number board lights and marker lights and wire hand rails due to my hand getting too close to them - luckily they suffered no damage. I have it lying beside the bottom with the wire connectors to the front of the boiler marker lights still connected but have that front close enough to the bottom so no stress on them. Lots of slack in the rear cab lights due to the wires sticky stanchion being unstuck. I am working on adjusting my camera to send a photo.
The top of the motor does not have the round (I thought it was rectangular) cap. Now, here is where maybe I can get some directions on how to install it once I get the cap. Finally figured out that cap really stands for capacitor - feel like Homer Simpson - DOH!
