After sitting on the shelve for eight years I finally built one of these, well almost. In this age of open the box and put it on the track I forgot how much fun it is to build something. Took two weeks off and on. If I did a second one would do some things in a different order. I had to cave in on the ladders and used a freight car ladder and super glued the paper thin vertical braces to it to give it some support, I quickly broke the two extra ones and knew I was in trouble. A couple of questions to get this to completion. I can't find any brake wheels, so I guess it did not come with any. What should I use? Secondly, the decals are now ten years old or so. Should I spray them with something before trying to use them so they don't come apart? John
John, I've had good luck spraying the decal sheet with something like Testors gloss coat. Just a nice even coat. Larry
Kadee makes a variety of brakewheels. http://www.kadee.com/htmbord/HO-Scale Detail Parts.htm They are very well executed with great detail. I've found it's a good idea to have a few packages of their brakewheels both to replace lost parts and to upgrade old models. Also, Microscale liquid decal film can be brushed on the old decals to give them a more robust carrier film so they dont come apart.
