[Accrs-ho] Kato BN SD40

[ACCRS HO Scale]

Or option 2.

Gary

On 4/6/2019 10:21 PM, ACCRS HO Scale wrote:
> Message From: Dean & Margaret Lewis  lewis2 at earthlink.net
>
> During the recent train show (?) or later, someone came in and donated 
> some equipment.   A few passenger SP passenger cars and a Kato SD40. 
> It is in the BN green and black scheme.
>
> I picked it up yesterday and brought it home to clean it up.  Very 
> dusty and had those old style "horn hook" couplers,  Pulled the pins 
> holding the couples out, removed the couplers (one had the coupler 
> part broken off).
>
> Removed the shell and low and behold, put it on a test track and it 
> runs like a Kato.  My intention is to put a DCC decoder in it. The 
> dust cleaned up nicely.
>
> The question is:
>
> 1.  I can leave it DC only.
> 2.  I can add a decoder and put it in service, as is, with the BN scheme.
> 3,  I can add a decoder, and do a "patch" for Sierra Western.
> 4.  I can add  a decoder and paint it orange and letter Sierra Western
>
> If I am looking for the least challenging option and most useful for 
> all,  it would be #3 above
>
> Any comments as to what I should do for the "new" club engine.
>
> Dean
>
>
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