Having fun with my new DCS engines- Do you have a favorite?

This Sperry Rail car has always been a favorite...

Josef, the youtube link doesn't work for me. It brings me to my own account, not to your video.

Try it now. I'm not to sure how to post video here. The links worked at other Forums. Must be doing something wrong, if so, "help".

I added DCS to my layout--something I said I would never do--early last year--and I love it. Only one of my DCS-equipped locos came that way out of the box, and that's my Premier Dreyfus Hudson. Not one of my favorites, but I like it. The rest of my DCS locos were converted. The first conversion was an early PS-1 Premier Blue Comet, that I gave to Marty Fitzhenry to convert. He did an outstanding job on it and it really improves the way it performs, especially the puffing smoke unit that PS-1 locos didn't have. The other MTH loco I have with DCS is an early PS-1 scale NYC Hudson. It was new-in-the-box when I bought it last winter, and I sent it to John Will for conversion, also an outstanding job. 

I have 3 other locos that started as conventional but now have DCS, but what makes these locos a bit different is they are all Williams Crown Edition brass locos (SP Daylight GS-4, NYC Niagara, and a PRR K4s). These locos had no sound, and their stock Seuthe smoke units barely worked at all. The only feature was an operating headlight. I gave all 3 of these locos to John Will for conversion, and when he was through with them, it was like getting 3 brand-new locos. 

Converting any loco to command control requires a lot of skill, but it seems converting a non-MTH loco to DCS raises the bar. Mixing 2 different brands increases the level of difficulty, primarily due to the difference in gear ratios between Williams and MTH. In spite of that, John got the job done and these locos perform very well. It's hard to say which one is my favorite, but if forced to choose, it would be my Blue Comet.

Here's a short video of the K4s. 


John


WilliamsK4sConversion.mp4 (4.4 MB)