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@Landsteiner posted:

"This is a LC w/bluetooth board. Not a LC+"

I thought LC doesn't allow for electrocouplers?

By the way, I and quite a few other folks eagerly await your description of how you added dirt cheap command control to a conventional loco.  Hopefully Lionel won't stop supplying the boards as soon as it is well known (thanks to you) how to do this conversion.  Under $100 would seem a pretty good deal, even given the labor needed.  I think that's what Ed Bender charged to add his TMCC "Train Brain" to my MTH GG1 PS1 equipped loco about 30 years ago .

yea....see my response to John.

I'm hoping this goes well too.

Thanks

I can't see what road number is on your engine Bob, but for your reference here is the classification system for the New Haven's EF-3s:

Numbers 0150 - 0154 came from Baldwin-Westinghouse in 1942 and were classified as EF-3.

Numbers 0155 - 0159 came from General Electric in 1943 and were classified as EF-3-a.

Both classes, while intended primarily for freight service, also had provisions for passenger service. In 1944 the 0150 - 0154 had some ballast removed and a passenger service steam boiler added in its place, and became class EF-3-b.

~Chris

@C.Vigs posted:

I can't see what road number is on your engine Bob, but for your reference here is the classification system for the New Haven's EF-3s:

Numbers 0150 - 0154 came from Baldwin-Westinghouse in 1942 and were classified as EF-3.

Numbers 0155 - 0159 came from General Electric in 1943 and were classified as EF-3-a.

Both classes, while intended primarily for freight service, also had provisions for passenger service. In 1944 the 0150 - 0154 had some ballast removed and a passenger service steam boiler added in its place, and became class EF-3-b.

~Chris

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Chris, thanks for the information. I can go up and check the the number; but according to the attached it looks like they assigned #150.

Here’s the photo of the number board.
It looks like MTH got it wrong. According to your notes # 159 should be EF 3a. IMG_0943

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