Got it sorted using a TCS M4 i had spare, the ditch lights need glueing in the body and reference pictures sought to superdetail the loco.
I am building a small layout to use for techniques and display and so need a few locos to provide some switching up and down, the NCE powercab was spare.
It would help if your links worked. I assume you're talking HO here. I have some Athearn SD40-2's (Blue Box) and they're no more difficult to convert to DCC than any other BB Athearn loco. Assuming use of a Digitrax DH163D decoder. Properly isolate the motor, solder the decoder motor leads to the motor (gray=bottom, orange=top), solder pickup leads to the pickups (red=top of contact arm of front truck, solder jumper wire to front and rear truck contact arms, black=base of headlight bracket), The blue wire is a constant positive (+) for the remaining wires (white=front light, yellow=rear light, green=additional function F1, violet=additional function F2). I don't mess with ditch lights and such things but there are others here who can explain that.
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Hi All,
I have an Athearn SD40-2 i bought recently and need to know if its DCC compatible the motor is fine as i can isolate it from the chassis, is there a site where wiring of it is shown the model has 4225 on the end of the box and heres is a picture of it
http://tinyurl.com/6qmjrp
I would like to add ditch lights as here with over cab lighting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7he-WuGJrw
weather and superdetail it, so for front / rear and ditch lights would a three/four fuction decoder be needed i prefer Digitrax decoders for their smooth running so any suggestions as to model numbers for a decoder would be welcome.
Many thanks in advance.