First Test Of DCC With A F40PH 2016 ONP

After I got the track all wired last night, I had to do a test with DCC. When I first laid down the track I had done a test with DC, but this was going to be the first with DCC and my new decoder in the engine.

When I made my initial track purchase, I added the KATO 2016 Operation North Pole Christmas Train to my order, along with a DCC decoder from TCS (model K5D7). I grew up right next to the old C&NW West Line which then became the Metra West Line, so seeing and riding the Bi-Level passenger cars on an every day basis, I knew I had to have these for my layout.

KATO 2016 Operation North Pole Christmas Train

TCS K5D7

A few days ago I installed the DCC decoder and now it was time for the inital test with DCC power. I took a glance at the manual for my NCE Power Cab in advance, so I knew what I had to do in order to program the decoder to a 4 digit address. It is recommended to leave the 3 digit address at “3” and program the 4 digit address to match the engine number on the model, so that is what I did.

Here is a short video of the initial test run.

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