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@KKNAPPER posted:

Gunrunerjohn...so we can add pickups ourselves ! That's great. Perhaps a stretch of my talents, but possible.

It's just a little mechanical work, and running a single wire from the power to the pickup.   For many locomotives, the power is already in the tender for sound and/or drive electronics, if it's not, I just use a one-wire tether to bring it over.

@KKNAPPER posted:
Looking at the new models from Lionel, I see very few with them on the tenders. Even some Locomotives with close pickups on the motors. It seems confusing.

I was also looking at the Lionel LC 2.0 Berkshires. None of the tenders have pickups.

All of the Legacy models from Lionel have tender pickups, but most of them also have IR drawbars, so the rollers aren't actually connected to the locomotive rollers.  For those I add that single wire tether I talked about.

The LC stuff is different, and they're all over the map on those.

@Windy City posted:

GRJ where can I purchase the pickup and insulated plate shown in your photo?

The pickup is the MTH BD-0000042, the plate I make from 1/16" fiberglass sheet.

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