Yes ! .... Keep them posts coming please.

Thanks for your responses so far.

I am willing to get semi-involved in soldering or rebuilding these (2) locomotives... it's part of the fun (if the things work in the end ... hahaha).

All my newer HO locomotives I have purchased are DCC sound equipped.

I am now newly enlightened with the 9pin to 8pin harness idea and am already eyeballing them on-line.

Sounds like this could be exactly what I need (including getting sound).

If for some reason getting sound becomes an elaborate thing... I'll just go regular DCC without sound for these (2) locomotives and just continue to buy fully sound equipped locomotives like I have been doing since the purchase of the first (2) 'DCC ready' only locos.

However, it appears that thanks to this 9 to 8 pin harness information I may be set !   ... Thank you !!!

Also the info about fitting / attaching the speaker is much appreciated AND along with all the other details, for sure !



 

Hello all, I'm new to this forum.

I just got hooked on HO Scale trains in the last year or so.

I have (2) HO Bachmann 'DCC ready with NMRA 8-pin plug' locomotives.

My question is, are there any good DCC 'sound' decoders with 8-pin plug for these HO scale locomotives ?

If not sound decoders then what are some good regular decoders?

I really am hoping to get sound without a lot of soldering and hope there are good decoders for these locos for sound.
Solderiong a couple speaker leads would be ok but with the 8-pin plug I hope things would not be too involved.

I have one Bachmann HO steam locomotive and one HO Bachmann diesel locomotive, both are'DCC ready with NMRA 8-pin plug'.

I have attached pics of the Diesel Locomotive for reference.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank's y'all !