Quick Casey posted:I see no steam generators on the roofs. Painted in NYC freight colors. All is well, very good. I hope MTH keeps paying attention to little detail variants like this.
I'm hoping they get it right on the Santa Fe's... No S/G on the A's, only S/G's on the B's.
Another little update.
The MTH F3 weighs 3 ounces more that one of my SHS F3's. Probably the difference between Proto3 electronics and the Lenz decoder in my F3.
I want to make sure things are working OK before I scalify these, so I tried them on conventional DC. First, I did each unit separately. I can hear a relay click before the F3's energize. The sound comes on with the throttle a little less than half-way. A little past half-way and the locomotive begins to move. Throw the direction switch and the locomotive will slow, then reverse direction. No horn or bell control. The only thing I can see is they run opposite of my direction switch on my throttle.
The A-units are set to run back-to-back, it's a matter of observing which way the B-unit takes off to get it to match the A's direction. according to the manual, there are some switches located behind the back door, but I haven't fully investigated them yet.
I was able to run them on a short stretch of code 100 track with the HiRail wheels. They do bump on some of the spike heads, but they ran well enough to convince me I'm just about ready to try DCC. Once I've convinced myself i know what I'm doing, I'll scalify the locomotives.
I'm far from a DCC genius, so I'm treading carefully here. I want to go through the manual some more, so far I've picked upon the fact the locomotives are defaulted to address 3.
Oh yeah... The manual says S Gauge F3 and F7 Diesel Engine Operator's Manual, so maybe... (Hopefully not in another 4 years.)
Rusty
