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Is my loco dcc ready?

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Posted by mfm37 on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:05 PM

richhotrain

The old blue box stuff is not DCC Ready, and I am not at all sure it is worth the time and effort to make them DCC ready.

 

 

They're excellent runners so all worth the effort. TCS CN decoders would be the logical choice nowadays. Mine have DN140' s in them.

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Posted by Mudekk on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 5:24 PM

 The C30 & SD45 are in green boxes.  Just the SD40 is in blue.

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Posted by richhotrain on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 5:20 PM

Mudekk

I model n scale and have a few older Kato locomotives:  C30-7, SD45, and SD40 (in the blue kato packaging).  How do I know if they're DCC ready?

 Thanks.

The old blue box stuff is not DCC Ready, and I am not at all sure it is worth the time and effort to make them DCC ready.

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Posted by mfm37 on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:21 PM

 All three of those (blue label) are not DCC ready. In fact, KATO has not run the C30-7's since the original runs. Would really like to see them done again.

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Is my loco dcc ready?
Posted by Mudekk on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 2:31 PM

I model n scale and have a few older Kato locomotives:  C30-7, SD45, and SD40 (in the blue kato packaging).  How do I know if they're DCC ready?

 Thanks.

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