I own two Lionel Standard O cabooses that come with a large operational smokestack and a smaller non-operational scale one. They are a B&O I-12 wagon-top caboose and a Penn Central bay window type. The B&O I-12 accepted its scale smokestack as the instructions illustrated; by slipping into a notched hole. However, I found it curious that the Penn Central caboose did not have this notched hole at all. The operational larger stack simply fit over the protruding tip of the smoke unit funnel. To install the scale smokestack on this one, I had to disassemble the caboose, remove the smoke unit funnel, and insert the scale smokestack rather loosely into the open hole in the roof. The only thing holding it steady is the wire braces, whereas on the I-12 it's a very snug fit wire braces or not.
This was just a curious error to me. The instruction manual for the Penn Central caboose clearly illustrates the notched hole method. Has anyone else had an error like this? Was it only on the Penn Central cabooses?
