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 Posted - September 27 2014 : 12:27:04 AM
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Just wondering what your general opinion is on them.
http://www.ho-scaletrains.net/walthers-locomotive-resource/id202.html
These Dash 8s were actually pretty good locomotives. They aren't as highly-detailed as their Atlas equivalent, but they were still great runners, and they had dual-flywheel motors and reversing headlight as well. A good affordable way to have a "modern" 8-wheel GE Dash-series locomotive on your layout (the Dash 8-40B(W) and its' Amtrak equivalent were the only 8-wheel Dash locomotives ever made, I believe.) Plus, though they were not DCC-ready, it's pretty easy to hardwire a decoder into these locomotives as well (the TCS T1 does the trick nicely.)
I have four of them, actually...
/tyco/forum/uploaded/wiley209/20140927002555_dash840BWs.jpg
The BNSF "Warbonnet" and Amtrak "Pepsi Can" locomotives now both have DCC decoders in them!
But a word of note when installing a TCS T1 decoder into the Walthers Dash 8...
http://www.tcsdcc.com/Customer_Content/Installation_Pictures/HO_Scale/Walthers/GE_Dash_8-40BW/Walthers%20Trainline%20GE%20Dash%208-40BW.html
When it comes to the motor pick-up wires, you must solder the red wire to the gray one, and the blue one to the orange one, instead of the other way around as shown in the pic. When you do that, it will mess up the direction of the locomotive on a layout, at least when you're using a Bachmann E-Z Command system.
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