I have an Erie Lackawanna S2 engine that needs a decoder. It is a P2K #21357. What is the easiest decoder to put in?
Thanks Mike Dickinson Jamestown NY
This link should help
http://www.tcsdcc.com/public_html/Customer_Content/Installation_Pictures/HO_Scale/Life_Like/Proto_2000_S1_Special%20Edition/Proto%202000%20S1%20Special%20Edition.html
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
One thing the TCS instructions leave out is the fact that this loco is NOT DCC ready. The motor is grounded to the frame and in a derailment, a wheel could touch the frame, linkign the decoder input to the decoder output - instantly frying the decoder.
I posted pictures of an install I did in oen fo these locos here: http://community.webshots.com/album/163958178NgaXTy
I also filed the frame to fit a Digitrax DH163L0 decoder so I didn;t have to change the ligh tbulbs on that one. I've since done another one with a TCS T1 and changing the lights out for LEDs, but I didn;t take pictures, or maybe I did and they're still on my camera 2 years later. Combine the TCS instructions with my pictures showing the repalcement orange wire and you'll have it.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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