Lionel subway battery installation

Calabrese94-

You're absolutely right - installing the battery in the subway is a downright pain in the caboose, especially because the tolerances are very tight. My recommendation is foregoing the battery, especially if you operate in a command environment (TMCC/Legacy or DCS). Lionel always recommended adding a battery in order to preserve the railsounds sequence when track power was momentarily interrupted (i.e. to change direction) when running conventionally (transformer-controlled), but the battery is optional if you have command control.

If you are running conventionally I'd recommend installing a modified BCR (basically a BCR without the plastic shell) in lieu of the 9v battery this way you can install it once and forget about it, without worrying about the batteries leaking or causing damage.

-John

Not a real big deal, if you look up above on the roof section, you will see a plastic post or casting right in the way of the wiring terminals, snip this off and problem gone, the casting does not effect anything, in fact all the cars will have that spur in the way in the same place, Gman.