Rebuilding a Roundhouse Boxcab

[faraway]

.....Seriously, the only one that worked fine was the value sound decoder in their RS3 which was an excellent impulse buy.

About the wheels, do you think it could be possible to just pop out the wheels from the axle and replace them? I know, I'm pushing my luck too far!

I also started to see what can be done about battery power with this locomotive. Taking in account the GE 44 frame and motor, a 850mAh Lipo could fit which should be enough for a switching layout. About R/C, I think DRS1 would be the safest way to go for me since I could retrofit my NCE system and keep their throttle which I like.

Matt

Matt, ok lets keep the GE 44tons/boxcab conversion in one place in this thread. My two boxcabs left Inverness yesterday. They are very closely online tracked...

I think Bachmann made a marketing failure by soldering that poor decoder. The decoder spoils all the advantage of the improved drive. They should sell the model with a 8 pin plug for easy decoder upgrade. e.g. my dealer did not know that Bachmann enhanced the drive. The model sounds as bad as usual with the old decoder.

Asking to replace the wheels only instead of the entire axis is a bad one.... I would like to but if I fail is the engine ruined. I do temper as little as possible with the drive itself.

I am surprised you plan/think about running the engine on batterie with RC control. Would be a nice gimmick switching smoothly on awful dirt covered tracks.