Do the all of the new On30 2-6-0's have tender pickups with wires and plugs between the tender and loco, or only the ones with metal gears. On the currently available ones with plastic gears, is pickup only in the loco like on the previous releases? I'm guessing the ones with metal gears (including the new 0-6-0's) will have tender pickups since they have DCC & Sound boards in the tender, but did they also change the non-metal geared 2-6-0's when they made the new ones with metal gears? Seems like not having to deal with the fiddley wires and plugs between units is a plus for those running around the Christmas Tree...
Bill
The new 2-6-0's with on board DCC have tender pick up. The old analogue ones only have pick up from the loco.
It's not hard to modify an older 2-6-0. The infamous
Geren W. Mortensen, Jr. made a kit several years ago w/ brass wipers that ran off of the wheels of the tender, resulting in a locomotive running ever so smoothly through Atlas plastic frogs or any other switch maker's plastic frogs. He trades under the name of "On30 Guy", and I don't know if he's still making the kits. Send him an email if you're interested.
John Tumolo britcarfan@aol.com
Is really easy to add pickups in the tender:
(http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/mogul_dcc/image/tender_wipers.JPG)
what I did at;
http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/mogul_dcc/page2.html (http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/mogul_dcc/page2.html)
Harold