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<p>I like today's Red Caoose RTR because of the great amount of detail they come with from China including applied ladders, detailed grab irons, coupler levers, and brake rigging. These are expensive if you don't want this level of detail, but cheap enough if you do want it. Adding coupler levers is one thing, but carefully taking off molded-on ladders and grab bars with a modeler's chisel is daunting. It's a lot of work to see light under grab bars and behind ladder rungs, but it makes a difference. I don't even attempt it on car ends. Changing running boards if you car has them is time consuming and not cheap. So, I appreciate cars that come this way already.</p><p>I replace couplers with Kadees, and wheelsets with Intermountain. Some metal wheelsets appear to be good, but they may have different width treads or different flanges than Intermountain. Intermountain wheelsets seem to be a good compromise between scale and reliability, and I like the way that they roll. </p><p>As to weight, I never understood the one ounce per car plus one ounce per inch idea. To me, a consistent weight per inch is better. Why should two six inch cars be an ounce heavier than one twelve inch car? I measure centerline of coupler to centerline of couple for weight. I check each car's weight on a digital postal scale and leave it alone (so far) if it is close enough. I might think differently if I were pulling a scale 2,500-6,000 foot train. </p>
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