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Got my Bowser DS4-4-1000 sound chassis going..

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Posted by rrinker on Wednesday, July 3, 2013 12:08 PM

 Well all I did was pullt eh shell off one chassis and install it on the other - this is a factory item with the Loksound already installed.

 I did just do a short video of it moving back and forth in the yard with my iCar, but I need to get it copied from the phone and edited (the iCar records through a mirror, so everything is flipped left to right) before I upload it to YouTube. Can't iTunes syn to my laptop since th ephone is tied to my desktop at home so I have to wait until the phone has wifi so I can email it or use dropbox. Plenty of GHA as I reach down and flip the ground throws to line my tracks as I'm running it, too.

                       --Randy


Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's

 

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Posted by PennCentral99 on Tuesday, July 2, 2013 9:06 PM

Sounds promising, and from a DCC/Electronics expert like you, will be running like a champ in no time!

Any pics? video?

Congrats on your new "birth" 

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Got my Bowser DS4-4-1000 sound chassis going..
Posted by rrinker on Tuesday, July 2, 2013 7:50 PM

put it together today at the club show in Strasburg - no soldering iron so the headlight is not connected, but I transferred my hell over fromt he non-sound unit. Sounds even better witht he shell on. And it runs suprisingly well at slow speed ove rrealtively poor track - soes need a few pushes here and there, but mostly it runs, even at slow speed. I spent some time switching the coal breaker with it. GREAT sound, only further reinforces that I made the right decision to use only Loksound from now on. Awesome slow speed cree too, I can go so slow I can see the couplers start to slide against one another before they couple up.

                  --Randy

 


Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's

 

Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.

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