I blogged a couple weeks ago about my new Digital Command Control system for my model railroad. I now have 3 more units wired up for DCC.
The first unit is a Norfolk Southern C44-9W. I had tinkered with it for some time to get it running for DCC, but the first decoder got messed up by a dead short. I rewired and re-isolated the motor. Steve also offered me one of his older decoders and re-tested the unit.
He also had another “used” decoder, which fit in my 2nd GP60M, 156.
The final unit is a very special unit, since he is the one the little ones enjoy the most: Thomas the Tank Engine. During my wiring of Thomas, I acceidentally yanked one of the cables off the decoder. I managed to solder it back in on the first attempt, which was a bit of a challange considering the small size of the decoder. Everything else was real easy, since 3 of the 4 wires were colour-coded the same way as the decoder. Testing went good, I got it assembled without messing up the moving eyes, and he is now running on my DCC layout.
Cyrus will be happy.