I managed to get some crappy pictures of the F45's and some pics of the MRC 1806 (for Kato SD40-2) Sound decoder installed. You must use liberal amounts of Kapton tape under it and add solder to the pickup pads (for better connection) and you need to file down (narrow) the wide center of the decoder (where you see the kapton tape sticking up) also desolder and solder the motor pickups from the Athearn board to the MRC board and when installed the decoder os backwards so you need to set CV29 to 007 for reverse operation. Works well and sound is pretty good.







And here are the locos.








Mike

Where's the crappy pictures?

eightyeightfan1 Wrote:Where's the crappy pictures?

Well , I think they are!
Go Dale!!!

Mike

Those are great looking diesels. I was amazed at how heavy they are...I keep meaning to weigh them and compare them to other offerings from Atlas and Kato. That F45 just seems way heavier than anything else I run. And it's got great pulling power too. I got one like it but haven't modified it yet for DCC (since I haven't made the leap into DCC yet...but by the end of the month I hope to be there). Thanks for posting a "how-to"! I can't wait till they make one in the later post '72 warbonnet colors.

Where are the bad pictures?