MDC/ROUNDHOUSE locomotive rebuilds

[cnrglen]

After giving it some thought I decided to re-design the tender frame and the electrical pickup.

I didn't trust the drawbar pickup so I switched to a hard wired approach. I had my friend who installed the decoder add the wire with a connector from the tender to the decoder instead.

The tender shell has a slot in the front that I can feed the wire through and I drilled a hole in the back of the engine for the same. After testing it works much better.

I also decided not to use the bowser frame as it was all metal I was concerned about shorting the trucks through it. I'm still added some underframe details, I just wanted to make sure this worked before I went too far.

While I was at a swap meet a few months ago I came across these. The Canadian National Special interest Group had these Photo-etched number boards made up.

It will go under the headlight after painting. I think the same group made a set of cab numbers but I haven't found those so I'll just use decals.