hi rich
           yes they are ho &not dcc ready and yes they have the pc board for light's could i solder the decoder directly to the pc board ?alsolike the idea of replacing the board direct as stephen suggest'si will check that out now thank's
                                                                                                            george

hi stephen
                   yes they are us models from bachman but i dont understand what you mean by what type of frame ,they are both brand new and i imagine they are current model's in the range as i have seen them on ebay us
                                                                                                   george        

hi everyone
                    i am new on this forum please be gentle with me i have recently purchased the following loco's in the uk emdgp40/ho gp 50and recently tried to have dcc chip's fitted to them but was told it was not possible however i am told on the model rail forum here in the uk that any loco can be chipped so any help and diagrams would be very helpfull
                                                           george