Railway Modeling and Electronics

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Today I will present another train set. This set was the first train set which I’ve brought it. It is a special set from Mehano because it came with a DCC decoder, 3 pole engine with flywheel. Also is named Mehano Hobby.

The original decoder was an ESU LokSound v3.5 and the sound pack came from an ICE 3 train. For this reason I’ve changed the decoder to an ESU LokSound v5 and I’ve uploaded the Alstom TGV sound pack, because Thalys is a TGV train.

Other modifications I’ve made to this set are:

• adding lights to the dummy loco (rear/front direction) and pickup contacts.
• I’ve changed the panto-graphs to metallic ones to be more realistic.
• adding interior lights in the passenger wagons.
• adding current pickup contacts to the wagons nearby locos.
• micro-connectors between all wagons.

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Today I will present my SNCF 241P Loco made by Jouef. This loco is a French steam loco from era III, build between May 1948 – June 1952, with wheels configuration 4-8-2. More specs and details can be found here on Wikipedia.

This loco I’m using for my new “Orient Express Simplon” set from Trix, for which I will do an unboxing later.

This loco came with an ESU LokSound V4.0 DCC decoder with sounds and lights installed by default. There are front lights and rear lights, turned on depending of the direction of the loco, and also a firebox light which is simulating the fire into firebox.