Great Northern railway

Mark,

Div 7 has around 65 registered layouts.

Cleveland and Cincinnati are 'big' modeling cities.

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Erie L-1 0-8-8-0 decoder install and Ross club's modular layout at Liberty Way shopping mall.

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Erie L-1 0-8-8-0.

LED's have, already, been glued 'in place'.

I make my own connectors.

There are 50 pins on a connector and I cut them into either 8 pin or 4 pin connectors.

These are very small connectors as 8 pins are less than a 1/2" wide.

Each 'cut' results in one pin lost so I can get four 8-pin and three 4-pin connectors for one 'strip'.

Marked white to insure proper 'connection orientation'.

For 'some reason' I keep the 'cut' pins!

One type of speaker that I use.

This tender is small so it gets a 'sugar cube' speaker.

My 'wiring order' for tender to engine and engine frame to engine boiler.

Every engine is wired the 'same way'.

I need an 8 pin connector as I, usually, have LED's to the headlight (engine/tender), marker lights (engine/tender), cab light, running board lights and fire box glow.

A 'fine point' is used to solder all connections.

First 4 soldered.

Then heat shrink tubing.

As with an extension cord, the 'tender' side connector is the female side.

One doesn't want to put the tender on the track and have 'extensions' touching the track, etc. if the tender is not connected to the engine.

Then the last 4 wires are soldered and then each set of 4 wires are 'heat shrink' to resemble air/water hoses.

TCS 1517 WOW 101 steam decoder.

Each end of wires has it's own connector so the decoder can, easily, be added/removed.

Wire harness can slide into the tender so it's not 'seen'.

Other side of the connector is next.

About 5" are cut for the 'engine' side connector.

Male side done with heat shrink added.

The 8 wires connected to the engine with 4 going to the boiler for headlight, marker lights, cab light.

The fire box glow LED bypasses the decoder so I can tell when the engine has power because the fire box will glow before 'inputting' the engine address on the throttle.