Well, I finally got my GTW car the other day, and must say that I am quite impressed! In fact, so impressed I have another ordered from my local hobby shop. The new design trucks are better looking than I initially thought from the pictures I've seen, with thinner profile wheels besides the thinner truck frames. Now, I do have a few questions that I need answered. I know this first one might sound dumb, but.....the car comes with a small bag with what looks like possibly two bulkheads.....is this correct? Also there are two more little parts that look like either handles, or long airhoses????? Now you would think that Atlas could provide a note detailing what these are for......... I've seen plenty of these cars out at the Arcelor Mittal Indiana Harbor West plant (old LTV), but they always have the covers on, so I've only seen the older Evans cars uncovered. Now, has anybody put Kadees on these yet? From my observation, there isn't a heck of a lot of plastic to tap into for mounting Kadees. I always use Athearn pan head 2-56 truck screws (HO) for Kadees. These coil cars do not have a pad to mount the new ones to (like on some other Atlas O cars), so I'm a little bit leery on possibly damaging the car. I might just leave the Atlas couplers on, and cut the trip pins off...... Thanks toall for comments and suggestions.
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