One real deficiency in N scale is how-to documentation for important add-ons. An example is how to add the side corridor lights in the Kato Siemens SC-44s and ALC-44s. As I understand this, these lights, which are visible in the radiator vent cutouts on the sides, are always lit on the prototype, with very few exceptions, whether these locos are pulling or pushing, day or night, trailing in consist or leading. One question I have is if Kato provides factory-installed headlights in all its units, why should it be necessary for the user to install theae separately at all?
This video from Kato USA gives basic info on removing the shell and the basic innards of both the ALC-42 and SC-44:
However, it leaves out specific info on how to install the corridor lights. It specifies that yoiu use the 11-211 lighting kit that's meant mainly for passenger cars. It implies that you leave off the long light bar for use in passenger cars, but it doesn't make plain that you also have to remove the piece of white plastic that surrounds the PC board and the two contact wires that extend below the board.
You can see the basic PC board from the 11-211 inserted into the chassis at left in the photo above. If you remove the white plastic piece that surrounds it in the 11-211, it will go in easily and work fine.
The installed corridor light with the body reattached is above.
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