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Swapping Trucks On Old Locomotives
Jim has a question for readers and asks:
“I have an old Tyco analog locomotive that I received for Christmas as a child. It is in excellent shape and I would like to use it on my current layout. My set-up runs on digital power. My question: Can I replace the trucks on the locomotive with new digital ones? If so, can I buy just the trucks as opposed to buying a new locomotive and swapping the trucks?”
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I successfully remotor TYCOs with the motors from CD ROM drives…it’s fairly easy to do and give you a motor that should have no problem with a DCC chip…
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