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I agree with you Fergie. I recall one such detail item that drove owners of the Penn Line Pacific K-4 (metal kit) to distraction. As I recall, the boiler had a power reverse on the metal casting and many modelers preferred the earlier manual (hand operated) reverse. At the time, neither Cal-Scale nor Kemtron had the latter available. Fortunately, I was able to purchase the necessary extra detail castings for my (early 1950's) Bowser, brass Mountain [4-8-2] and Varney (deluxe Pacific, 4-6-2) while both Kemtron and Cal-Scale were still solvent. The boiler castings on both locos were good (for the period), but the trailer trucks, pilots, headlights, marker boards, steam traps and piping etc. were crude or entirely lacking. However, with the addition of the brass "extra" detail castings, both locos were transformed into faithful replicas of the prototypes. There is no small measure of "pride" that goes along with the "transformation" as well. Good luck on your quest for perfection.
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