Legacy Steam Engines: IR Sensor Changing

Is the top picture a drawbar from a Legacy tender or Odyssey? Generally the Legacy tenders have the sensor on top of the drawbar and Odyssey have theirs on the bottom in a square housing. In my experience if the sensor of the replacement tender is on the same side as the original tender it should work regardless if the sensor is 2 or 3 wire. But you can't just swap sensors if one is 2 wire and the other 3 wire. Those sensors are connected to different circuitry in the tender.

Pete

Pete, the above drawbar is from Lionel's Legacy Berkshire from 2009-2010, but it has the bottom same square housing as the Odyssey TMCC steam engines.

The idea is to match the tender with a Lionel Legacy steam engine with the sensor on top.

Since changing IR's can't work, is there a way to rearrange the placement of the IR so they will be in contact with each other?

Unless the best idea is to wait for Lionel's BTO Berkshires and hope a stand alone tender pops on the market one day?...

The sensor in the square housing is the same size as the ones simply wrapped in shrink tubing. You should be able to remove the housing and place the sensor, sans housing, on top of the drawbar. Hold it in place with electrical tape to verify it will work before making it more permanent with shrink tube.

Pete

Thank you Pete,

I'll keep that advice in mind. Looks like all I need is a new drawbar and attach the existing IR to it.