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Charlie, thanks for the comment about the handrails.
I have seen the A-Line sunshades with the brass mounting pins indeed look like they’d resist handling better than paper or styrene. I’ll give them a look and thanks for the tip.
There were many factors that lead me to choose 1963 as the year to model: I prefer running boards on freight cars, I like first and second gen diesels, I wanted to model a year after the 1951 flood which I will depict on my structures with a flood high-water line, I like cabooses (especially transfer cabooses), and lastly: the Kansas City Terminal RY received their SW1200s in 1963 and I really liked those engines (plus a NYC SW1200 is a good starting point to model a couple of them. Of course, they have handrails that will need to be modified, too to create a representative model of the KCT SW 1200s.)
Other than a “show” SD40-2 that I run just for fun, I’ve been successful staying within the 1963 modeling year.
