American Flyer by Lionel 6-48075 NH EP-5: What ERR board should I use?

I have only used the cruise lite and I love it because I have lots of inclines and declines.  If my layout had no grades, I'd probably just use the  mini commander.

Well, I don't have a layout yet, but when I do I want an elevated line on it.  But I expect it will be a level elevated line, with an access track between it and the lower level track.  As such that access track would not have unattended trains running up or down hill, so I suppose the cruise function would not be necessary.

Dean

According to what I read and by examining my own that locomotive didn't have Railsounds.  It did have a horn.  That is what the speaker is for.  Also, it had only one can motor that was horizontal in the truck not two vertical motors like yours.

According to what I read and by examining my own that locomotive didn't have Railsounds.  It did have a horn.  That is what the speaker is for.  Also, it had only one can motor that was horizontal in the truck not two vertical motors like yours.

Yours was the older  48008 with a single motor and silver trucks from 1991. This appears to be a  48075 with 2 vertical motors and black trucks from 2008. It was marked #378 on the numberboards.

Yup, no sounds just horn and bell,  I put a DC Commander in mine and it runs like a top.  It is better to pay good up front and not worry about ability later....

Marty

You could go mini commander II and the railsounds board with EP5 sounds or cruise lite and railsounds if you need a constant speed feature.

In my EP-5 conversion, I used the Cruise Commander Lite.  If you don't want cruise, the DC Commander would be more than enough..

my ep-5

Brendan

Ok, so the manual for this engine (https://www.lionelsupport.com/...s/57536748075250.pdf) says it has two can motors and the "TrainSounds sound system", i.e. horn and bell sounds only.  But that's a moot point since the sound card is gone now.  Not sure which Commander board I'll go with (Cruise, DC or Mini), but I will definitely get the EP-5 Railsounds board when I do.   Thanks for all the suggestions!

Dean

I would not bother with the DC Commander. Once you have operated your trains with some form of cruise control, you never look back.

Dean, I would go with the Cruise-Lite, if you have any grades to operate on or if you want to run more than one locomotive on the same track the Cruise-Lite makes it so much easier to maintain the gap between trains. Any new installs I do will get the C-L as long as there is room to fit it in.

Ray

OK, you guys have convinced me.  A Cruise Lite it will be.  I have a couple of repairs ahead of this one to do first but hope to start on it soon.  Thanks again for all the wise advice!

Dean

Hi guys. Gonna hook up cruise lite. And sound board. Instructions are for 3 rail.  How to hook up to my EP5. Twin motors thanks steve

Hooking up is the same for Flyer.  I used the front pick up shoe on the right as the hot input and the left one is the ground connection.  You can connect the front and rear trucks together and that would give you your four pick up points,  Connection for the lites is pretty straight forward...

Marty

Thanks Marty.  That's what I'll do. Steve