My interests in UK railways are somewhat eclectic and I have models from most eras ranging from Stephenson's Rocket through to some of the latest diesels and electrics. Whilst most of the pictures of my Last Great Project layout feature diesels I fancied running some steam. This came out of the storage box and is a Bachmann model of the Robinson 04 which was a freight loco with a 2-8-0 wheel configuration. A splendid model it is too and I have had it about 15 years but never DCC chipped it. However, that changed!
You can see it was designed for tractive effort rather then speed with the small driving wheels whereas express passenger locos had large driving wheels for speed.
Luckily, this model is wired to have a DCC chip fitted so all I had to do was remove the tender body held on with four screws.
With the body off, the blanking plug was taken off ready for the 21 pin decoder to be fitted.
With the chip fitted it was time to program it and then onto the layout to test!
All I have to do now is to fit a crew into that fantastically detailed cab!
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