I'm not entirely sure. I am curious as to what changed. When I had mine, I cleaned (chemically and mechanically) the wheel blackening crap off the wheels. That did not help matters.

As an engineer, I'm curious as to what they did to the pickups.

You mean the four sticky upper wipers on (two on each truck) are no longer there or they've been redesigned?

What was the problem?

I would take it apart and see if a piece of dirt got into the gears to cause the clicking sound.

Yep. It takes years of design, development, and testing to add new products and trains. IF something like this were to come up, I'm guessing maybe 2018.

Install an in-line switch between one of the rail joiners between the siding the the switch. When turned on, it will power the siding, when turned off, it will leave it off.

Looks great! Nice job!

BTW, it's not all that bad (if you've done hard-wired decoder installation before) to make the LL 2-8-4 Berkshire DCC-equipped. I have done it.

Quote from: Dakota7820 on May 06, 2016, 09:24:46 AM
Sorry for trailing off subject here, but has anyone ever tried to super detail the N scale Bachmann 4-8-4? I know it's a little crude looking with all the molded on details, but I wonder if it could be dressed up a little? A little bit of good weathering would certainly help too.

I plan on doing this in a couple of weeks at the National N Scale Convention in late June.

Are you talking about the new Bachmann K4 4-6-2 Pacific?

To remove the locomotive shell, unscrew the two screws behind the trailing truck and free the pilot handrails from the boiler shell. Next, raise the cab end of the shell up until it clears the chassis and then slide the shell forward a bit to clear the headlight LED. The shell should lift right off at that point. To remove the tender shell, unscrew the two screws behind the forward truck. Next, lift up the front end of the shell and then wiggle loose the two plastic clips on the back end of the shell. The shell should then pop off.

There should be instructions included in the reverse unit.

LOL.

Majordadsage, Bachmann won't install anything for you. You'll either have to do it yourself, or if you'd like, I can do it if that's something that you don't feel like tackling.

Microtrains recommends coupler 2004-1 as the replacement.

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