PS-32 Upgrade of Early DC Only 2 Rail MTH

I did this with the Allegheny. I had to add some more wheel pick ups as the engine would stall in certain conditions in my yards. I added wipers to the one set of tender wheels and the lead and trailing engine sets.

I tried to add the wipers at first to the main drivers of the 2 rail conversion. They arced across the tires to the rims.

Before you ship this out, test it on some switches.

Joe, My layout is three rail with connected outer rails. So that is a no go.  If it runs in conventional DC, not sure why it would not in a command environment.  Same power pickup.  G

It all depends on the layout. Because my frogs are dead, the tender wheels wouldn't have anything to get power from when backed across the switches. Especially when the engine would rock while running over the switches. Surprisingly, the engine stalled more than I expected. So I ended up adding pickups to both. I've only converted about four of them. Each steamer needed extra power pickups to run smoothly and reliably across areas of my layout that aren't perfect. They would run fine on straights.

 Of course, I should fix the layout, but I know how customers are. Most will state that their other engines aren't a problem.

Flip a MTH 3/2 engine over and look at how many pickup points there now are on them.