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To add some value hopefully- the doghouse is soldered in and deeply integrated into the tender, so no easy way to remove it unless you a very skilled. The model itself looks great, even though it doesn’t actually represent anything ever run by MoPac if you include the tender. Regardless, a really beautiful locomotive.

It is very easy to convert to DCC- the can motor has low current draw and can crawl after replacing the rubber drive tube. I used a TCS WOWsteam with keep alive. Rapido makes Commonwealth tender trucks that match and have pickups for each rail, and with that addition the loco runs beautifully. I used a 32MM speaker over the holes already drilled in the tender.

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