Hello Everyone!
I am looking to convert a HO 80 Ton 3 Truck Shay that I bought as a coal burner to an oil burner. I need to get my hands on a tapered stack and an oil load. If anyone has any of these can you let me know. Bachmann doesn't seem to make these parts anymore and I'd really like to convert this engine.
Thanks,
Trevor

Hi all,
A friend of mine has a Tsunami decoder that came out of a 2011 G scale Climax. He replaced it with a Phoenix decoder and has offered to give it to me. I have a Spectrum G Scale 0-4-0, which we are planning to convert to Airwire and battery operation. I want to use the Tsunami as the sound decoder for the engine and I have a plan as to how to fit it since it's a board. I do have a couple of questions about it. I want to know if when it was in the Climax, did the board run the engine directly or did it go through another decoder to handle the voltage? Does the Tsunami handle the amp draw of the porter on its own? Thanks and please let me know.
Trevor

My 9 year old son just tried to run his Christmas present locomotive.  It is a Spectrum Climax loco and he is very disappointed that the engine appears to be dead. 

The only life it shows is that when the jumpers are installed and it is run on 00, both lights come on.  However, there is none of the engine noise that we hear when his Shay and Heisler are run on 00.
When we install the decoder in the Climax, it is completely dead (not even a light comes on).

Does anyone have a suggestion... or should I send this new engine to Bachmann.

Thank you,
mp