There have been great threads on creative ideas on kit-bashing this classic to make it look less toy like and authentic. But I have not found a thread on ideas in making it more operational... for example in capturing more coal (51% maybe?) from the dump of a 3469 coal car into the receiver / hopper feeding the buckets. I thought about trying to modify the interior of an MTH 30-7925 dumper car (which is too wide for the 97 receiver). Has anyone worked on improving coal capture on the classic 97?
