Australian Model Railway Magazine

Split Chassis and a Splitting Headache: Austrains 36

A number of years ago, my father purchased an Austrains NSWGR 36 class 4-6-0 steam locomotive out of the ‘specials’ box at an exhibition. It was one of the later run models with a ‘DCC Ready’ plug in the tender. During a recent visit, he brought over his entire model fleet to my layout for conversion to DCC so he could run it on my layout (and other friends’ DCC layouts).

The conversion

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