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• DCC (Digital) • Re: dcc a spilt chassis pannier tank bachmann model

  3. Juli, von Brian
  Hi Scroll to the bottom of the section that this link takes you to and see my conversion of a Bachmann split chassis to DCC. Seven pictures and the associated text may help you? https://www.brian-lambert.co.uk/DCC-Pag ... l#Decoders Statistics: Posted by Brian — Fri Jul 03, 2026 9:28 am

• DCC (Digital) • Re: dcc a spilt chassis pannier tank bachmann model

  2. Juli, von Mike Parkes
  Best thing with dcc-ing any non dcc ready split chassis loco is to wire the motor to two loose wires, reassemble and check neither wire is shortening to the chassis. If okay hard wire the decoders motor wires to to those loose wires. Statistics: Posted by Mike Parkes — Thu Jul 02, 2026 10:22 pm

• The Mess Room • The Modern Tramway Journal After WW2 and into 1960s

  2. Juli, von rogerfarnworth
  Modern Tramway – January 1951 – Birmingham Bustigestion! I have a few older copies of Modern Tramway which I had not yet read. The first of these is the January 1951 issue. The editorial for this issue of Modern Tramway was a long update on Birmingham’s tram-scrapping programme. An update that (…)

• DCC (Digital) • Re: dcc a spilt chassis pannier tank bachmann model

  2. Juli, von Mountain Goat
  They are not easy. First thing to do is to ream out the bits of the chassis where the motors terminals touch the motor. The harder part is to find a way to attach the wires from the decoder to the chassis as ideally one needs to drill holes in he Mazak and tap threads to take screws (A really (…)

• DCC (Digital) • dcc a spilt chassis pannier tank bachmann model

  2. Juli, von bobclifford1953
  hi could anyone help me to dcc my spilt chassis bachmann pannier tank loco as im struggling to work out how to do it any help would be most welcome thanks in advance bob clifford Statistics: Posted by bobclifford1953 — Thu Jul 02, 2026 8:49 pm