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Glad you like it,Paul. It is tongue in cheek.  For proper reference I should have added more individual steps and more photos but I wanted to keep the post short. Somewhere I have other posts with more complete instructions....and I think many other forum members do too. This kind of conversion is really not difficult.  Atlas/Kato and many others where there is hardly any room for a decoder (or speakers) and light bars have to be cut, LEDs arranged in the middle are more time consuming.  I have six or so conversions where I used a drop-in loco-specific decoder or was able to put in a NMRA plug, but all the rest are rewired. (Jump in...like most things the instructions seem longer than the process.  That Chessie is my 136th conversion......maybe 25 are old open frame motors like this......older P2K BL2s especially.   Just that a few years ago I didn't know one end of a loco from another and had never used a soldering iron.  But making converting locos to DCC is what I like best.)
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