12-18-2008, 02:53 PM
They still sell stealth BLI models? I'd get them sound equipped anyway, because if you ever want sound in the future, you'll have to tear apart the locomotive to install it. If I can get it with sound, i'll usually save up for it. Thats why you haven't seen any Conrail C40-8Ws on my layout. Its a standard conrail road unit, but i'm waiting for a good Atlas gold model. I know from my expiriences with my U34CH that installing sound is hard (and i'm going to try again with sound in my C32-8, which is also pretty close to being finished).
That said, if you don't need sound. you're set.
As far as decoders go, I'd stick to NCE or TCS. I think TCS might even be better than NCE, but they don't seem to be as wide spread. They (TCS) are really user friendly though. If your DCC system has the option, you can set the long adress right in (after programming CV29 of course) instead of having to manually program CV17 and CV18 like usual. They've got good customer support to.
That said, if you don't need sound. you're set.
As far as decoders go, I'd stick to NCE or TCS. I think TCS might even be better than NCE, but they don't seem to be as wide spread. They (TCS) are really user friendly though. If your DCC system has the option, you can set the long adress right in (after programming CV29 of course) instead of having to manually program CV17 and CV18 like usual. They've got good customer support to.
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