@Allegheny posted:Ok so you run your locomotive using battery power and you've ripped up the center rail.
How do you lite your AC passenger cars?
How do you operate the AC accessories that are located trackside?
Do you only have AC power to your switches?
What track would you recommend that doesn't have the 3 rail to begin with but can handle our 3 rail wheel flanges?
I'm using 3-rail wheels on code 148 2-rail track made by Atlas, Micro-Engineering, and Signature Switch. So far ZERO derailments that weren't operator error.
Here's a circuit I have for using MTH batteries in GGD 3-rail passenger cars:
The existing switch and light strip were the ones that came with the GGD cars. I hid the battery and voltage regulator inside the GGD underbody cluster piece where the on/off switch is located. I have since removed them but it does work. I removed them to tidy the circuit a bit and to make it easier to get to the battery jack for charging, which I have yet to do.
Problem with most of these PBRC conversions is you have to make provisions for charging and mounting of things like jacks and connectors. I reused the 10-pin plug on the MTH steamers, but on my Williams brass engines I used both 10-pin and 4-pin, depending on what I had available. If I used a MTH 10-pin plug on a Williams engine I had to Dremel a place to put it (enlarge the spot already there for the 4-pin plug). What I'm saying is, at least on steamers, it's not a "pull the old system out and put the new system in" type of thing. Not hard, simply something that had to be done.
