I really wanted to doublehead my pair of Sunset Mikados. Today I mounted Kadees on them and did so . . .
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Nice. Were there mounting provisions already there for the Kadees?
I really want to put a Kadee on the front of my MTH Great Northern S-2. I did the tender a while back (details here). But the front coupler is going to involve some major cutting.
"Nice. Were there mounting provisions already there for the Kadees?"
Definitely not! 
And that begs the question, Why not? The 2 rail version must have a Kadee attached. Why would the 3 rail version not have the mounting holes that must be present on the 2 rail tender? 
I had to drill and tap the tender.
The locomotive was surprisingly easy though. The Kadee shank fit into the hole for the original scale coupler and could be affixed with the same screw. I thinks this was just freakish good luck rather than it being manufactured with this in mind.
Nice job.... I usually end up chopping up the Kadee shank and drilling a hole in it so it will squeeze into the Lionel or MTH pilots.
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