DCC Sound
HO Kato NW2 Sound Installation
W
elcome to my first column in the new Gen 2 for-
mat for MRH. Hopefully, you will find your reading
experience better than you did with the old format,
regardless of your reading platform.
This month’s
“From Mr. DCC’s Workbench”
sidebar discusses
the long awaited NCE PowerCab upgrade (version 1.65).
The Kato HO-scale NW2 is a popular loco. There were lots of
prototypes and the model runs like a top! However, it is a DCC
nightmare. In my
“DCC Ready? The Good, The Bad and The
Ugly!”
clinic, it is high on
The Ugly
list.
Here I’m going to discuss a sound installation into this loco.
While this column targets this specific HO loco, the techniques
I’ll be demonstrating apply to all sorts of locos:
Locos with split frames (two frame halves that are insu-
lated from each other, but connected to the respective
rails) in any scale
DCC Impulses column - 1
DCC Impulses column
by
How to make this switcher sing, plus a look
into my techniques ...
MRH-Jan 2013
