Bachmann N class Woolwich mogul 2-6-0

[Noel]

No 390 hauls a local suburban working up the express loop, as passengers wait on Platform 3 for the 14:40 Dublin-Cork. 

No 379 transfer passing on fast loop.

I believe this may have been factory weathered, not done by me. She's DCC now.

[jhb171achill]

Love the weathering on the K2 "Woolwich" and all the diesels..... !

Question to all re. those locos - are they ok for DCC? I have two, not used yet. Got them second hand, but I know from the guys I got them from that they aren't chipped. (I'll need to weather them like you have!)

[Noel]

27 minutes ago, jhb171achill said:

Love the weathering on the K2 "Woolwich" and all the diesels..... !

Question to all re. those locos - are they ok for DCC? I have two, not used yet. Got them second hand, but I know from the guys I got them from that they aren't chipped. (I'll need to weather them like you have!)

Hi Jonathan, they are not DCC ready (ie they have no DCC socket), so need to have a wired decoder installed in them. I've just converted one of mine, and about to do the second one. I located a Lenz Silver+ decoder in the tender and ran the 4 wires through a hole in the tender into the loco through a hole under the foot plate. Red and Black wire pair to the two track pickups, and the orange and grey wire pair to he motor. There was no space in the loco body for the decoder so it had to go in the tender. It required a little fettling and I replace the articulated tender/loco coupling with a wire hoop and hook.

Posted a few days ago of 379 first test run with DCC decoder installed.

Decoder fits in tender.

Edited November 30, 2020 by Noel

[jhb171achill]

1 hour ago, Noel said:

Hi Jonathan, they are not DCC ready (ie they have no DCC socket), so need to have a wired decoder installed in them. I've just converted one of mine, and about to do the second one. I located a Lenz Silver+ decoder in the tender and ran the 4 wires through a hole in the tender into the loco through a hole under the foot plate. Red and Black wire pair to the two track pickups, and the orange and grey wire pair to he motor. There was no space in the loco body for the decoder so it had to go in the tender. It required a little fettling and I replace the articulated tender/loco coupling with a wire hoop and hook.

Posted a few days ago of 379 first test run with DCC decoder installed.

Decoder fits in tender.

Ah yes, I saw that. Excellent job.

[Noel]

I found a few photos during conversion to DCC

The little PCB with the choke and capacity needs to be removed

A micro decoder might just fit inside the loco where this PCB used to be, but a standard sized Lenz or ESU decoder needs to go in the tender where there is enough space.

[jhb171achill]

Many thanks, Noel.