11-08-2019, 12:45 AM
....with my thanks to Lutz for both leading the way, and for providing some useful info for my first foray into DCC.
I'm not going to provide a step-by-step "how-to", as Lutz has already covered the topic rather well. Instead, I'll merely offer some photos of my progress, with a few comments where they might be useful. Questions and/or comments are, of course, welcomed. The kit was donated by a friend, and I built it for another friend.
A couple photos of the running gear...
...and the all-wheel pick-up on the locomotive...
...and tender...
...along with a look inside the tender, where the power wiring is organised ....
...and routed to the decoder...
Here's the tender with its back-up light lit...
Here's the LED which provides the light....
...and a look with it, unlit, inserted into a small hole drilled into the back of an MV Products lense...
The kit came with an impressive amount of brass detail castings, but some were missing, so I used either similar parts which I had on-hand, or scratchbuilt something appropriate.
A few random views of the fireman's side of the loco...
...and tender...
On the engineer's side of the locomotive, I decided to alter the running board to match that shown in a prototype photo. The bumped-up area allowed for the installation of a power-reverse, but it also required new mountings for the piping which forms the cooling coils for the air provided by the air pump...
Continued in next post.....
I'm not going to provide a step-by-step "how-to", as Lutz has already covered the topic rather well. Instead, I'll merely offer some photos of my progress, with a few comments where they might be useful. Questions and/or comments are, of course, welcomed. The kit was donated by a friend, and I built it for another friend.
A couple photos of the running gear...
...and the all-wheel pick-up on the locomotive...
...and tender...
...along with a look inside the tender, where the power wiring is organised ....
...and routed to the decoder...
Here's the tender with its back-up light lit...
Here's the LED which provides the light....
...and a look with it, unlit, inserted into a small hole drilled into the back of an MV Products lense...
The kit came with an impressive amount of brass detail castings, but some were missing, so I used either similar parts which I had on-hand, or scratchbuilt something appropriate.
A few random views of the fireman's side of the loco...
...and tender...
On the engineer's side of the locomotive, I decided to alter the running board to match that shown in a prototype photo. The bumped-up area allowed for the installation of a power-reverse, but it also required new mountings for the piping which forms the cooling coils for the air provided by the air pump...
Continued in next post.....