The coupler boxes are made by a guy of the last name of Gougen. They are made for the Kadee couplers to be inserted, but attach to an AtlasO boxcar using the different screw spacing unique to Atlas cars.
I looked at a prototype picture and basically the pipe extends back into the car, so I bent the wire at 90 degrees far enough back to be away from sight, but to extend through the box twice so it has a second hole that won't allow it to turn vertically. I trimmed the brass wire (see part 1 for exact sizes of bits and wires) so that it would barely stick out of the second hole on the other side of the box. The other end was trimmed to keep the angle cock flush with the end of the coupler box. The photos showed the end of the pipe coming to the angle cock to be bent down, but it would put the glad hand too low and be down in the height of the ties.
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