What'd I do? Well.....the Postman dropped off a box from trainz. In the box was a retired Conrail (nee Reading) extended vision Hack:
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For me four things have to change before this crummy will be at home on the PER. That brakeman sitting in the cupola must go because we are a present-day [ish] operation and that means a two man crew. PER uses a Hack for it's everyday shove-move from town to interchange as a safe way for the Conductor to ride the rear-end during the trip. He/she stands/sits looking out the right rear-facing window with radio at hand giving the engineer instructions. So no one in the cupola. Also those ladders have to go. For safety all cabooses had their ladders and roof-walks removed late in their careers and again, PER is a present-day operation.
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The atomic lights must be scaled down.
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That light has to go as there never would be light in a cupola.
So here we go:
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First the four screws retaining the body to the frame are removed. The tricky thing is that the platforms must then be removed by sliding them endways. Then the interior can be [gently] removed from the body.
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The three lights and the brakeman exposed.
Here we are almost done. The brakeman has had his butt unglued and the center (cupola) light has been removed. For comparison, the left light bulb has been changed out for the lower wattage bulb used in MTH track switch remote controls while the right-hand bulb is stock. Easy way to fix atomic lights, use a dimmer bulb.
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Ready for work:
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I'll take a nigh-time pic later. Not sure what I'll do about the roof-walks as removing them would require sanding off the bosses they are retained by.
On Edit: Sorry, people. I don't know how I managed to post a duplicate. Fixed.