I’m worried that if I pick this up, I’ll have to get an FEF and a turbine from Scale Trains. This may be a can of worms for me. Next thing will then be a duplex as I move east. Oh the humanity……
Now, there's a thought... Instead of a basement, or an attic, just buy a whole duplex! Live in one side, and run trains in the other!
The duplex house is a great idea. However I was talking about a Pennsy T1 and other eastern roads. I’ve managed to stay true to SP, but there are definitely other steamers that I would like to get.
In the words of Roseanne Roseannadanna (played wonderfully by Gilda Radner on Saturday Night Live), "Oh... Nevermind!"
Anyone opened up one of these yet? I'm interested to see if there is a socket for DCC or is everything hardwired?
For what it's worth, I saw somewhere else that the DC version does not have a socket and some folks seemed a bit upset about it.
Thanks, I checked out his work on disassembly and it looks like it is going to be a chore. At least I have done dual motors before in an old Bman DD40AX. Looks like the headlight will be the biggest challenge, but that's true for any Big Boy or Challenger. It's supposed to arrive Wednesday so I'm clearing my workbench! It really is puzzling why they didn't use a socket for the decoder, but from the pictures I have seen it looks great! Tom
I got one of these and tried it on the layout which only has some track. I had it creeping along through couple of Atlas code 55 turnouts Never had a steamer this slow and consistent. DC only so far. Track was pretty clean.
