I also bought one #831 set of couplers. These are large off-set couplers for truck mounting. I put them on my SRRL caboose. You can see that I aquired a few older Kadees from eBay purchases in the below photo. The original owner had painted the couplers to look rusty. They also cut the trip pins. I've done my best to refurbish the internal workings of these units, but not all of them have worked well. I may have to just replace them.
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It's snowing today in Massachusetts, so I hurried up and pulled out some stock. Here's a few of the photos I took!
No pictures today, at least, not yet. But, I wanted to provide a quick update.
I have almost completed work on the SR&RL Caboose that the LHRR acquired about a month ago. The only thing left to do is attached a couple ferrules and connect the last few wires. I'm waiting for the ferrules to come in along with a crimper I ordered. Basically, all I did to the stock is wire in a DPDT switch so I can run the lights in either track or battery power. I managed to hide all the wires and the battery pack. I will take photos as soon as I can. As of yesterday my Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Trains are complete; I finally was able to buy an LGB SRRL Caboose. This caboose will be the end of my SRRL Work Consist (2x flatbeds, 1x boxcar, 1x caboose). This is a lighted car, and the first thing I did was make sure all lights work properly when I got the car home. However, the car needs some work before it will be cleared for service on the LHRR. As with the SRRL Coaches, this car has plastic molded chains on either end. They will be replaced with real metal chain. In addition, I want to add a battery option to this car so the lighting will work on my railroad since I am operating as dead-rail. But, I also want to keep the track option so I will need a DPDT switch wired in so I can switch between track and battery. I have already found a great place to hide the battery, but I have to figure out where the switch will go, as well as the wiring run. Then, two small jobs need doing. First, the lantern visible in the above photo is missing it's brass strap. I will fabricate one against the other. Second, the door on the rear end of the caboose doesn't want to open easily, it appears to be slightly too low and rubbing against the floor; this will be fixed. Unfortunately the door at the front of the caboose cannot open because the circuit board on the ceiling is in it's way. I don't see a way to fix this. EDIT: One last thing: I need knuckle couplers for the caboose! I can't forget those! So, all-in-all, here's my checklist for this piece of stock:
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