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The experience of assembling the chinese built kit did not feel any different than a USA Blue Box. I wondered if the tooling was shipped overseas from the USA and set up in the new factory?At the end of the day the boxcar passes it's uncoupler gauge but has the coupler boxes hanging below the carbody which is somewhat not easy to fix. I dont know if the use of the 148's kept the coupler at the required height.When placed with several others there was nothing to distinguish this one from the others. I did cheat a little bit by using spare athearn trucks from a scrapped USA kit and proto 33" wheels.I think if I buy these chinese kits in the future, it will be thoroughly inspected at the counter pending purchase. I say that the kit is no different than a USA kit and actually had the feeling that the tooling may have been shipped overseas.I will deal with it on a case by case basis. I have a mountain of spare athearn parts to fall back on, that really helps alot when something comes out not quite right.
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