MTH PS1 To Lionel Conventional

You are probably not going to have room in the engine to get a common reverse unit inside.  Easy to put an ERR SOund card in the tender, but then you have to add pickup rollers to the tender for power.  So on a scale of 1 to 5 this is the complex 4 to 5 model project.

Look at a Lionel engine you have.  Both engine and tender have pickups.  MTH does not.

Closing a topic is the moderators.  You can contact them.  You maybe able to delete stuff, can't remember.  G

Alright thanks for the input

The hardest part would be installing rollers on the tender. Any of the electronic E unit boards that Lionel puts in its starter set conventional engines should fit in the engine. Lionel parts site is down now but when it comes up look at the parts for a starter set 0-8-0. If that set has trainsounds vs an air whistle you could even use that board, much less than railsounds and passible if you are not that critical.

Pete

Just my two cents.  I don't understand.  MTH PS1 is conventional!  It is conventional with sound, programable features and remote activating coupler (except some very earliest steam).  

Now when I came back into O-gauge in late 80's had about a dozen MTH RK steam and the engine "sounds" were loud, in fact too loud.  So I used the programing features to knock them down.  As I now recall they were programable at "full", "1/2", "1/4", and "off."  So assuming there is no speaker problem maybe someone had programed the down.  

Back then I programed the engine "sound" down to 1/4, but left the whistle and bell at full.

Ron

I don't understand why you would want to shut off the comments.  When I ask a question here I want as many opinions as possible.  You don't know, but the next one might be the best one.

Believe me, you will not be swamped with too many opinions anyway.  And, it's not like a lot of comments are going to overload your hard drive.

Alan

PRRronbh posted:

Just my two cents.  I don't understand.  MTH PS1 is conventional!  It is conventional with sound, programable features and remote activating coupler (except some very earliest steam).  

 

I'd have to agree. If the locomotive is working just fix the smoke unit issue and enjoy it. 

In my opinion the only way taking out the electronics makes sense is if you are planning on converting the locomotive to PS3 or TMCC.

ajzend posted:

I don't understand why you would want to shut off the comments.  When I ask a question here I want as many opinions as possible.  You don't know, but the next one might be the best one.

That was a mystery to me as well.  I figure why bother to ask if that's the attitude you come in with?