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The new 'Model Railroader' has an advertisement for the Life-Like 0-8-0 with sound. I have one of these earlier units where I installed DCC sound, after adding tender electrical pickups. It runs quite well without resetting the sound. My question is: what would be involved with converting this to a 2-8-0? I model the Delaware & Hudson in the 30s and 40s when the Consolidation was supreme. Outside of brass, I know of no loco that really comes close to the D & H's Consolidations so I have contented myself with Bachmann Spectrum locos. It would be nice to have a different version; that's what I thought of when I noticed all that room ahead of the first driver of the Like-Like 0-8-0. I wondered how hard it would be to add a single axle leading truck. Anybody have any thoughts on this?
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