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Recently I bought an F3 All Nation kit from eBay. When I went to assemble it I found all the bearings and clips to hold the trucks together missing. I figure the kit lasted this long because parts were missing, the guy I bought it from did not know and sold it as is. I managed to file 3/16 brass rod in a drill press and got it to fit the side frames but finding center to drill out a #41 drill is going to be harder with cataracts. I was looking at Pininterest and I came across a scrapper with weird paint marks, I checked and sure enough I found another engine with the number boards higher at the engineer's side. Am I the first person to notice this?Scale railroad example

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D&RGW 5771 was involved in a grade crossing accident in 1980 and reportedly has a non-standard pilot after the repairs. Maybe a number box was misaligned from accident repairs.

http://www.actionroad.net/DRGWLPD/DRGW-Sundries.htm

Speculation: if a number box was ripped or damaged in a collision, or had to be cut off, perhaps the replacement would be welded on at a slightly different height because of damage to the base metal, for sake of expediency.

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