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General Discussion / Re: WTB Rail Pro Products ?
« Last post by gregeusa on December 08, 2025, 10:35:52 AM »
Some people can afford that, and also why hope he's not installing 100 units?

Buying 100 will help the hobby and Ring company and help keep our hobby alive.
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General Discussion / Re: WTB Rail Pro Products ?
« Last post by trainman605 on December 08, 2025, 07:48:04 AM »
Model railroad products are in many cases in limited supply, everyone who models in model railroading knows that, it's just the market and supply of low production products. Our G scale garden railway club is about 75% RailPro at this time with most running RailPro are only powering 3-5 engines with RailPro battery control, yes there are some exceptions, but at $300 per engine to add RailPro to engines many pick and choose which engines they equip with RailPro. I hope the original poster wasn't planning on installing RailPro in all his 100 engines, wouldn't that be $30,000. trainman
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General Discussion / Re: Which power wires do I use on an LGB F-7 Trucks
« Last post by trainman605 on December 07, 2025, 12:33:23 PM »
4 wires, I did put power to the terminals, and the two outside ones powered the trucks. That was a couple of days ago, I believe they were the Brown and Green ones, if I remember correctly. I will be running RailPro battery power, I could have just looked into my other LGB Diesels which are all running RailPro and battery power, but I would have to remove the body shells to see inside. Thanks, I will wait for your answer, trainman
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General Discussion / Re: LMS-21
« Last post by Mrpicks on December 07, 2025, 09:57:30 AM »
Absolutely no problems. Pretty much as advertised.Plug and play. I installed it on a Bachman Decapod loco like the run at Strasburg. Lights work directionally bell whistle etc. Just have to load in the proper steam sound. I'm 71 years old and some of those little parts and pieces are a little hard to handle so this becomes a good option.
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General Discussion / Re: LMS-21
« Last post by Espeelark on December 07, 2025, 08:44:08 AM »
Glad to hear that Mrpicks!
How did it work when you set about to assigning it to the locomotive?
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General Discussion / LMS-21
« Last post by Mrpicks on December 06, 2025, 01:33:09 PM »
Finally took the plunge and purchased a Lms-21 and oh my what an easy install. Took me longer to remove the tender cover than to install the module. I get that they are a little costly but no wiring no adapter harnesses etc.
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Finished RailPro Installation Examples / Re: Athearn SW1500 Install
« Last post by Espeelark on December 05, 2025, 07:33:56 PM »
Well, I knew it was to good to last.....
Even though my track work is really quite good, this short wheel-base switcher needs a Keep-Alive to get across my diamonds without dying. With a Scale Sound Systems speaker under the hood, there was no way a Ring PBM-2 was going to fit. I've read here on this site that others have employed TCS Keep-Alives successfully, so, that's the route I went. I picked their smallest option, the KA2.
The only place I think it could fit was within the dead space in the center of the cab's interior. Here's a shot of what I'm referring to. The cab shell has been removed leaving the interior. The spot I'm targeting is that space in the center of the green cab interior in between the walls.
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Next I removed the cab's interior. Here's a shot of that.
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So, you have to remove/cut-out a piece of the floor so that the KA2 can be slid in from inside the SW1500 shell. Here I popped off the wall assembly from the floor and you can also see what I cut out from the floor.
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Unfortunately the KA2 is a bit wider that the space between the walls, so I popped the glue joint on one of the walls. Here's that.
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Then I glued everything back together.
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Does it fit? Yes it most certainly does!
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Here's a shot of the cab's interior reinstalled with the KA2 stuffed up into that dead space.
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Then it was a "simple" matter of connecting the wires and tucking everything back into the shell. Obviously this would have been way easier if I installed the KA2 from the git-go, but, it worked! Runs like a champ across my long 19 degree diamond!

Now that I've shown it's possible, you can do it too!
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RailPro Specific Help & Discussion / Re: LM-2S vs. LM-3S
« Last post by KPack on December 02, 2025, 01:50:47 PM »
LM-3S has double the storage memory of the LM-2S.  As Tim said, it is much easier to install a keep-alive with an LM-3S because you don't need to use a bridge rectifier.  On that note, if you are installing a keep-alive I would highly recommend using Ring's PBM-2.  Yes it big but in my own experience it performs far better than normal DCC keep alives.  Far more stable.
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General Discussion / Re: Which power wires do I use on an LGB F-7 Trucks
« Last post by gregeusa on December 02, 2025, 12:04:27 PM »
Do your trucks have 3 wires or 4 wires?

Are you running from track or battery?

I can give you the answer if you answer these 2 questions.

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General Discussion / Which power wires do I use on an LGB F-7 Trucks
« Last post by trainman605 on December 02, 2025, 11:26:49 AM »
I'm going to install Rail Pro in an LGB F-7, which color wires on the power block do I use. I have done this before on my LGB Rio Grande diesel, I'm thinking I used the Brown and Yellow wires, is that correct or not. I think the Red wire is not used, but what is the Red wire used for. Please correct me on this, I could dissemble my LGB diesel to see what I did but would rather not do that just to look inside. Thanks for your help, trainman605
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