New Decapod

[ebtnut]

I just picked up one of the updated Russians.  Have not had it out of the box yet, but wanted to know if anyone has run theirs and wondered if there were any special things to watch for.  I don't have DCC so I plan to take it to an operating session on a friend's layout next week, so I can get the decoder set up for the loco number and check for chuff sync with the drivers.  Any thoughts?

[Trainman203]

I asked this question awhile back and one guy responded.  Do a search.

[rich1998]

You could do a Google search. There are other forums.

Rich

[ebtnut]

Well, I got the loco out of the box last night to run on a friend's layout.  We checked the programming to make sure the WOW momentum feature was minimized and changed the address to the loco number.  In general I was pleased with the operation of the loco, except that one of the signal wires from the tender to the loco was too long and occasionally caught on a frog or guardrail.  That's a minor fix.  I thought the whistle had a little too much reverb but the chuff was good and the driver rotation to chuff rate was real close.  Will give it some more exercise at the club layout on Friday.  So far, so good.

[Kemptown Branch]

except that one of the signal wires from the tender to the loco was too long and occasionally caught on a frog or guardrail.  That's a minor fix.

How do you fix that? I have a locomotive that I haven't run for a while because of that problem.

[WoundedBear]

except that one of the signal wires from the tender to the loco was too long and occasionally caught on a frog or guardrail.  That's a minor fix.

How do you fix that? I have a locomotive that I haven't run for a while because of that problem.

On most of my Bachmann steamers, I have fixed the problem by gently tucking a bit of the offending wire back into the bottom of the tender with a fine tipped pair of tweezers.

Sid

[ebtnut]

I haven't had time to look closely, but sometimes you can just make sure the offending wire goes over top of the drawbar when you hook the tender to the loco, taking up most of the slack.