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Metroliner DC to DCC

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Metroliner DC to DCC
Posted by southernpacificgs4 on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 7:09 AM

Today I received the 4 car Metroliner in DC from Walthers.

I want to add decoders to it.

Has someone allready convert a regular DC Metroliner to a DCC Metroliner?

It will be running it in 2 seperated consists of 2 cars on the layout( I will not run the four cars in one(1) consist) so I was thinking to put in one car a sound decoder and in the second car a regeular decoder.

It seems that the DCC socket(plug) for the decoder is a 9 pin socket(plug).

Wich decoder can I use from soundtraxx for the sound decoder and wich for the regular decoder.

From the information sheet I can not find out if the DC version is with internal lights and headlights.

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Posted by nealknows on Thursday, June 21, 2018 3:21 PM

Only thing you can do for the sound decoder is check TCS, Soundtraxx or ESU sites to see what they may offer. As far as non-sound, whatever sound decoder you get buy the non-sound one so it will be easier to speed match. 

Wish I could offer more. I still have my metroliners in the box.. UGH!

Neal

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Posted by richg1998 on Thursday, June 21, 2018 5:31 PM

The OP might try searching with a couple different search machines.

I did with Google. There is a little info out there.

Rich

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