Hi Y'all --

Any CV settings to tell a locomotive to be silent after shutdown until I activate it?

Just started with sound equipped locos in DCC. 

Acting like a 12-year old boy with a VISA card I now have several Bachmann sound equipped locos  Every one of them cranks/steams up as soon as I apply power to my MRC Advance2 DCC system.  All the sound is "deafening" (exaggeration) and confusing.  I've figured out how to reduce the sound levels of individual locos and how to turn them off (silent) one-by-one with F8 but what I'd really like is for them to just "shut up" after shutdown until I ask them to do something.  If I do something stupid like derail and cause a short the sound system in every Bachmann loco fires up again even if they were sitting quietly on a siding.

My only non-Bachmann loco has an XL Systems, Inc. decoder that shuts down and just waits patiently and silently until I wake it.  Loco won't even move until I wake it with F8.  Power reset like my weekly derails doesn't bother it nor does powering down the complete system.

-- Chuck

Hi ya'all.  First message.  I tried the "search" function but...

I have a Bachmann  2-6-0 DCC loco with a "road" tender (51751) and would like to replace the tender with a "yard" tender (to represent Newburgh & South Shore practice).

My miniscule knowledge here indicates the DCC decoder is in the tender and connects to the engine with several wires.  Anyone know if I can swap the electronics in the road tender to the slope back tender (89653)? 

Any tips on removing the tender shells?  I'm not seeing any screws on the bottom of these tiny tenders.

Would like to represent this look which ran on the South Shore up to about 1935.  I know my loco is an Alco and this South Shore Line is a Baldwin.



-- Chuck