John Fenske's heavily weathered old Proto locomotive. She came to us with a blown speaker, so I replaced the old mini oval with a Bowser Dual Cube. Well...she has one of those WowSound decoders. Never played with one before. I thought the Tsu2 had CV's. This one made the Sprog gag.
After reading the TCS manuals, I reprogrammed her to run smoother and quite a bit closer to how a prototype Geep runs. Sounds good. Runs much better now. A shame she really can't run with anything else due to her orphan decoder, but she runs ok nonetheless by herself.
She is a classic example of why I really dislike lit number boards, especially when they're connected to the headlight. Meh...she still gets a pass.
John Fenske's heavily weathered old Proto locomotives, a GP9 and an old GM&O GP30. Both came to us with blown speakers, so I replaced the old mini oval and one feeble soundchamberless mini-minioval with Bowser Dual Cubes.
The GP9 is a WowSound and the GP30 has a TSU2. Both had their volume cut back just a bit both for sound quality and to lessen the chances of another blown speaker.
John Fenske's old Proto GP30, as she arrived. The cab had a soundchamberless speaker that could barely be heard. She now makes her presence felt, all properly rebrained and sounded up with a Bowser Dual Cube. That coupler hose just had to go.
John Fenske's old Proto GP30, after her conversion She now makes her presence felt, all properly rebrained and sounded up with a Bowser Dual Cube. Her bright eyes are Athearn LEDs installed just for fun.