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My "parts list" is pretty much in this thread.  The wild card is I'm not 100% sure which chassis I got the motor and mounting plate and motor from, it was from a graveyard at Henning's, just an old chassis sitting there with a motor sticking out.  My expertise runs more to the modern, but it was a single Pulmore motor chassis that has the same plate as the Phantom to mount the motor.

As I noted, the motor mount was actually spot welded to the chassis, I just drilled the welds out, being careful not to take too much material.  I hogged out the motor opening to the same as the front motor and just screwed it to the chassis.  One thing to note, you want to be careful to line up the truck with the position of the old unpowered truck as the sideframes won't fit if that's off.

The ERR AC Commander replaced the original LCRU and gave me much better low speed performance with the dual motor setup.  I also had a RS4 Phantom 3 sound board, and I just rounded up a RailSounds motherboard to hold the RS and power supply.

After getting all the running gear done, I added some custom lighting to wrap up the project.

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