Will Century Club tender work alone?

I am not sure about your question. If it has TMCC then the tender gets a signal from the receiver board in the engine. My main reason for this answer to to enter a plea for all those that ask questions. Lionel and most information providers have no idea what a Century Club Turbine Tender is. They all go by part or model numbers. Now there are some that in their memory know what the model number may be or may be familiar with that engine but I would need to try and find a listing for this engine and then find the model number and then look that up to see what the exact story is. What may be common and obvious to you is not to the rest of us dumb people. Sorry and thank you.

 

Al

Not familiar with this particular setup, but the tether is used to communicate with the
loco, perhaps send AC/DC back and forth, depending upon where the mother board,
sound board and radio board (command locos) reside. If the tender has electrical
pickups (again, not familiar with this particular tender/loco) it may chuff. Try it.

The commands (sound, backup light, Electrocoupler), however, typically are picked up by the loco and "tethered" to the tender.

The tender does nothing by itself. It does not have roller pickups for power. The connector to the locomotive has five pins. Lionel offered an optional diecast tender for this Century Club S2 turbine which means that there are extra tenders around just begging to be used for something.

It's one of those extra tenders that I would like to put to use with a postwar turbine. According to the PDF from Lionel's site the loco has a TMCC board in it, and the tender has a railsound board and an axle magnet sensor in it. I didn't notice that there was no pickup on either truck, but I did assume that two of the pins were for center rail and chassis ground. I believe the cat number is 18068. 

 

Thanks for the ideas so far.

 

J White

I'm working off memory as my turbine and extra tender are put away.

 

The only way this tender is going to work is to be connected by the tether to another loco.  The die-cast CC turbine tender does not have pickup rollers.  It derives it's power from the turbine locomotive.  The tether provides all power and command control features to the tender.  The Hall Sensor on the axle is what increases the dynamics of the turbine specific sounds as the speed increases- it does not chuff.

 

There may be a way to kluge it to work without the tether, but the work will likely be extensive.  I'm not sure it's too practical because I'm pretty sure it's Railsounds 2.5 and the boards may be a one-off design.

 

Fred