Mark,
I'm lucky to belong to a NMRA division that has lots of great leadership and membership.
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N&W Jawn Henry: Assembly and decoder install.
Assembly is a lot easier than a steam engine: no side rods and valve gear, etc.
The side trucks mounted to the drive wheels. Checked 'ease of movement' after each sub assembly.
Back trucks attached to the rear frame.
Front and rear frame attached to the center frame.
Motors mounted.
Connected up so the engine would run on DC to insure all's 'good': Had to remove the paint on the front and back frames for electrical conductivity.
Engine is quiet when I ran with the two end trucks removed. The manufacturer's manual said the engine's universals make noise until they 'warm up'; what ever that 'means'!
Decoder install.
Routed the red and black (hot/ground) wires to one location.
Since I have lots of LED's in the superstructure, the decoder was placed there and a 6 pin connector was made:
Hot/ground wire, 2 motor wires and 2 wires going to the lights next to the ladders.
Taped the 'jumble of wires', decoder, 'keep alive' and speaker at the front of the engine.
I stuffed some foam in the superstructure except where the motor and gear towers are located.
Function 0: headlight, Function 5 for cab, ladder and rear door lights and Function 6 for marker lights.
Not much room in the cab so only a 'bust' of the crew in the cab.
Some coal needed, yet.
'Road test' is next.
New delivery.
26X10 props: 3 wood and 1 carbon fiber for my RC planes. Ordered these last summer and they just arrived. Same on my 2 wood screen doors for the back 'screened in' porch; ordered last summer and they arrived a few weeks ago.
