Hot Water,
I got a 3rd Rail version of the 4449 in Daylight colors. I want to "correct" some of the colors so it looks more like it's in service, and not sitting in a museum somewhere. I have several pictures from different online sources.
3rd Rail has the ladders under the cab, on the rear of the tender, and the handrails on top of the tender front and rear.... all silver. I don't see any pictures of the 4449 like that. Everything I see, all those are black, to blend in to those areas of the engine/tender.
The handrail on the front of the boiler (right under the headlights) is silver....but it looks black to me in all the pictures.
3rd Rail also painted the engine wheels with white walls, but not the tender. I have seen the white walls on the Freedom Train, but was the tender "white walled" too? I think I'm going to scrape off the white walls anyway, they come off very easily with a fingernail.
Off the top of your head, do you remember how big of a spacer you used on the tender to install the Kadee? No biggie if you don't, just trying to save some time of trial and error for the correct height.