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The AHM car is toy that has potential. I'm spent several hours deconstructing the car before I could start building.

I rebuilt the end platforms, removed the vertical side ribs, to small, and did lots of work to improve the body ends.

I'm rebuilding the hopper bottoms which is a chore. Plano has a kit coming out next month, that's what made me

dig this 22 year old project out of the junk box. The side ribs will be replaced with .060 half round that's on order.

I have installed some servo motors and control electronics purchased from Iowa Scaled Engineering for throwing the switch points.  The experience has been very positive, and I cannot say enough about the great support that these guys provide for their products.  They make it clear that the customer comes first.  Here is a summary of my experience:

anybody model any N scale slugs?

thinking about tackling this "bash" to have one on the roster

never did a "bash" of this level so it will be a big learning curve

thinking of starting with a burned up atlas loco and modify / order parts as needed

got any ideas or other info that might be helpful?

Last week I took a little vacation for myself. Wednesday I drove down to the FWWR main office at Hodge Yard. After going into the office and talking to some personnel about my situation and was able to talk to a dispatcher. He took a couple of minutes to answer some questions I had about the Everman area. The FWWR had created a small office down there so crew could pick up paperwork for the day.