I have a Trainline GP9M locomotive. I popped a Digitrax DH123 into it very easily. The engine runs very well and it's very quiet. Too quiet. I bought a Tsunami and that will be the next project with this engine. I've also got some add-on MU hoses to add to it and spruce it up a bit.
The GP9M is the engine to the right in this picture. The other one is a dummy, an old Athearn rubber-band drive that's been gutted and equipped with a SoundBug.
This particular engine did not come with a trailing headlight, only one for the cab end. When I install the Tsunami, I'll put a LED back there.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I have a Trainline FA, and it was a fairly easy install. No plug, so it had to be hard wired, but it already had individual wires from the track pickups and motor terminals so there was no issue with isolating the motor, just connect the red, black, orange, adn grey wires. I replaced the light bulb with an LED and 1K resistor.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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