I recently picked up a
K-29801
Pennsylvania Railroad
Semi-Scale PA-1 A-A Diesel Engine w/Lionel RailSounds & TMCC
It is looks identical to the K-29802 ABA except it does not have smoke, electrocouplers and of course the B unit.
I picked up the fan driven smoke units and the smoke funnels.
It would be a whole lot easier if someone could post a picture of the mounting brackets and piping that k-line used. As it is now, the back unit only has lights and power for the motors connected by a thick 4 pos harness. After I get the smoke installed, I may upgrade to a cruise commander M.
I am still on the fence regarding eliminating the harness and install a separate Cruise commander in the other unit. It has the roller pickups (never actually factory wired) then I could MU or run the individually. And photos would be appreciated. I have the skills to fabricate the brackets but having the details of how K-line did it and how they piped the smoke unit to the smoke funnel would make the project go faster. No way will it fit right under the stack opening. The smoke unit has what looks like an 1/8" NPT brass elbow. I am thinking the used some type of flexible tubing.
Thanks in advance. Also curios why the smoke unit has a provision for a lamp labeled and soldered to the power connection. Thanks in advance.
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I have the K-Line PRR E8 set running with the CC-M, and it works well for the four motors. OTOH, I had another K-Line 4 motored set and the six motored set, neither of them worked well at all trying to swap out the DCDR for the Cruise Commander M. I suspect it may have something to do with the specific motors used. Also, Jon Z. who designed these has said several times that the Cruise technology is only designed to run with one or two motors and trying to run more compromises the operation, and he's obviously right.
