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The Peavine & Santa Fe Model Railroad

The Peavine & Santa Fe is a model Railroad inspired by the real Santa Fe branchline in Arizona from Ash Fork on the Santa Fe mainline, to Phoenix. The original name of this line was "The Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railway". The period is set around 1961 when this line still served Prescott and had to climb grades up to 3 per cent.

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Sound

Some weeks ago I did my first sound-decoder installation by fitting a Soundtraxx DSD-100LC generic diesel sound decoder in a Life Like Proto 1000 F3B unit.




To make this first installation simpler, I bought an enclosure for the 25mm speaker. There was not enough room over the speaker to use the extension tube.

I made solder pads from bits of PC-card, and even soldered connectors as I want to have jumper wires between the units inn the ABB. This way more wheels will pick up power from the tracks.

Eivind is the proad owner of this set. The chassis comes from LifeLike, but the bodies is Intermountain F7 in Santa Fe’s warbonnet paint scheeme. They looks nice.












Now there is more locos demanding sound. But first we have to lay down more tracks so they have a place to run. As you’ll se in this picture, the B-unit was put in service immediately.

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