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Jeremy, You will want to can the LL boards in the locomotives, see this article from Jan 2012 from my model rr club about LL boards.  They cause a voltage drop and limit the amount of voltage availble to the motor to cause significant problems with consisting.   <a href="http://www.mprr.org/clinic/modifyingproto2000">http://www.mprr.org/clinic/modifyingproto2000</a> Please note this clinic was written before the conversion to DCC, which started in the months following the Amherst show.  You need not modify the boards, just toss them (well, I saved mine because you cant throw away electronics in your regular trash in CT......) and hardwire your P2ks. Also toss the giant light bulbs.  They will melt your beautiful DCC equipped P2k locomotives.  I use 1/4 W 680 ohm resistors for my headlights.  1/4W 1k ohms will work as well.  My LHS sells prepackaged LEDs from TCS.   There are cheaper ways including just buying a bulk pack from TCS (which I have done as well).
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