Scooped a couple of these this weekend at 25% off. Got a pair of Southern Pacific's for my new Southern California shelf layout. I noticed in the manual they mention that installing a DCC decoder that on these Southern Pacific's have extra lights on the rear and I will have to solder them to the rear most pair of the tabs on the right hand side of the circuit board. I plan on using RailPro with these locos and not DCC at all. I'm starting out new and have decided that RailPro will be much easier for my layout.

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I had a deal on a pair of Athearn rtr Canadian Pacific gp35. At first I thought that
a good weathering job and a few details here and there was all they
need. But when I started to look for some prototype reference picture
it doesn't take long to realize that those cp model are all wrong.

Fist the Bell and headlight are not at the right place.

Fine, that's an easy job. Let's do it and they will run again in a week.  

If anyone repairs their N scale diesel locos, where do you find parts. I'm referring to older stock, not something listed on the Mfr's website.  For example, I have an Atlas that was made in Austria, that I believe has a bad motor (it hums but won't run) . It's too old for Atlas to stock, and e-bay has none listed.  So my question is where do I find one?

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