LGB Decoder Fitting Guides - UP 2-4-0

Introduction

For the second of our tutorial fitting guides, the small american 2-4-0 loco was chosen. This loco has been availible in several liveries over the years, and the current ones include the one of the Union Pacific, code: 20232. This loco I believe is mechanically identical to the 21232, in the Southern livery.

NOTE: This loco requires two decoders, one for the loco and an additional one for the tender if you want the sound to work.

If you have read the Stainz fitting guide, you may have been put off fitting your own deocders due to the almost complete dissasembly of the loco required. The 2-4-0 is thankfully much simpler, although some parts are a tight fit. So, lets jump straight in.

Lets take a look at the loco:

A little dusty i'd admit, but when you are retro-fitting a decoder, a little use is expected!

So, we are going to use LGB's main decoder once again, the 55021 (not the small loco decoder, designed for the field railway locos).

As before, non of the extra bits are actually required, as we have a direct decoder socket to plug the decoder straight into. Personally I keep all the extra bits as you never know when they might come in useful.