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The few Athearn dummies I have have plastic wheel sets and the trucks are missing the power connectors that bring power up from the wheel plate. Are you sure the dummy has metal wheels? I would think it would be cheaper to buy a powered unitt than buy wheels and modify the trucks and run wires. But to do it you just run real flexible wire (like dcc decoders use) from the frame to frame and other pickups to the insulated pickup plates in the dummy loco's trucks. I wouldn't go to the effort myself.
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