Looks great Jonathon! I'm glad the primer on the wire worked for you.  I might have to copy your work, I have an interchange with the B&O on my layout in the town of Odin, IL.  So I can use some B&O power.

Jeff

If Bachmann would take the chassis and running gear from this locomotive, and the shell from the 2-8-0 and stretch it to fit, the 2-8-2 chassis they would have an IC 2-8-2 and I would probably buy at least 8 of them.  That's wishful thinking, even though the 2-8-0 was from an IC prototype, they have never released one decorated for the IC.

Oh well, it makes good kitbashing fodder to fill my roster out with IC 2-8-2s.....There are more IC modelers out there then you think

QuoteIn the past, I have used magnet wire for pulls, but even that looses paint.  Fine silk thread looks terrible. It's a pickle.

Have you tried fine fishing line or stretched plastic sprue? You can get a line about any thickness you want by heating a piece of scrap styrene sprue over a candle and stretching it, but it's won't be as durable as wire.  I've had good luck with Rustoleum gray auto primer as a base coat on all kinds of wire.

The IC 900 series 2-8-0s (which the Spectrum, now standard line is a model of) we're originally delivered with Vanderbilt tenders.  Most were replaced, but some of the Vanderbilt tenders were used on other IC locomotives.

I can send you a photo if you need one.

Jeff

Thanks all. It's a factory Bachmann decoder so I will stop messing with CVs 51 and 52 to try to get it to work.

Jeff

After 3 resets of the decoder, finding a solution to programming the Tsunami on the Digitrax website I've got the headlight functioning.  I still haven't been able to get the firebox lights to work though.

Everything is connected. Reset the decoder.  Still no lights  .

So I got my heavy 4-8-2 with DCC and sound out and put it on the track.  Selected address 03 on my Digitrax Zephyr and got great sound (thanks, Bachmann, now I've decided to put sound in all my locomotives  ) it runs great, but no lights.  No headlight and no flickering firebox like my other 4-8-2s. 

I hit 0 on the control panel, no lights came on.  Shouldn't I have a firebox light even if the headlight isn't turned on?

Any ideas?

Another question.  When removing the smoke unit (I'm going to discard it and add weight where it is) is it ok just to cut the wires?  Does the wire to the decoder need to be hooked up somewhere?

Thanks, the video showed me just what I needed.

Are there any tricks to this?  I'm using one as the base model for an IC 0-6-0.  I want to replace the cab and put a sound decoder in the tender I'm building.  A lot of the removal of the cast on details will be easier with the boiler off the frame.

Anyone disassembled one?

Thanks