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[quote user="Darth Santa Fe"] There is a DCC socket in the PC board. Make sure you check the motor strips going to the board, because older production SD80s would sometimes have the motor strips contacting another part of the board, which would blow the decoder. Kato tells how to fix it on their website. My layout's not big enough to test its power, but I'm pretty sure it can pull over 65 cars.[:D] The mechanism is completely silent, except for the noise of the drive shafts on tight curves.[:)] It's not designed to hold sound like the newer Katos, but you might be able to fit a speaker in the back. Now for the anything else I can tell you part.[:)] The grab irons for the CSX version are all gray, instead of the proper yellow, and are also thick and undersized. They look fine once they're painted flat yellow.[:D] It does have a lot of detail and nice paint, but it's not as good as what you get on Genesis diesels. I'd put the detail and paint between Spectrum and Proto 2000. But the mechanism easily makes up for it.[:D] [/quote] Ah yes, I used to have 3 Genesis SD70MACs in CSX and boy do they look great, but they are dissapointing mechanically. They are noisy and wont stay on the track out of the box. Of the three I had, all three had bent brass pickups so some wheels werent touching the rails. Its a tedious fix mostly trial and error but I did get them running reliably. Of course when I decided to start installing sound they had to go because of the grinding racket they made. In the SD90 there is not a lot of room for a speaker, you could put one in the cab but that would mean losing the great interior. Ah well, I just run it along with other sound equipped locos. no problem since its so quiet.
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