Need help installing DCS

try this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvGVCIVs4ok&feature=g-u-u&context=G219faf5FUAAAAAAAKAA

Don't cut off the plug, get the Lionel TMCC direct lockon and then run from that to the TIU. If you do decide to cut off the plug, the hot side will have the white labeling on the cord itself, at least that has been the experience with my 6 bricks. Be sure to check the polarity of the brick, some of them were reversed from the factory. The numbers are somewhere on the Lionel website, of the bricks that had this problem.

If you look on the brick it indicates which is which. Lionel bricks circuit breaker trips very fast so no you do not need a fuse between the brick and the TIU.

Paul is correct.  I am a huge fan of those bricks.  A great product.

If you will go the CT McCormick Hardware web site.  They sell a cabel that will ease your pain. $12.00  it plugs directly into the Lionel plug and red/black banana jacks on the other end.