Another successful story of stuffing a MTH TIU in a boxcar. It's been sometime since I got the boxcar done to match the AFT MTH Set, but last night I finally finished getting everything back together and today it left the maintence shop for a trial run. I followed the others plans posted here on getting the board into the boxcar but changed a little of the design. I used two Aristo 21.6 Li-io for 4 amps but for when the batteries cut out I kept the sliders. I wired a mini DPDT toggle switch with the battery car on which side and the connection to the sliders on the other. That way I can keep running the train after the batteries stop especially when it's some distance from the shop, realized that value today as it was at the farthest point from the shop when they died. Here's a few pictures.
Here's a picture of what's stuffed in the boxcar:
http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/tmmhead/American Freedom Train/CIMG2214r1.jpg
Here's a picture after everything is closed up:
Here's a picture of the finished car from earlier in the year:
http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/tmmhead/American Freedom Train/P1010040r2.JPG
Here's a picture of the train from the run today:
Thanks to all those who have posted here with their ideas as this has really worked well with getting all the benefits of DCS 2.0 Protosound.
Tim
Here's a picture of what's stuffed in the boxcar:

http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/tmmhead/American Freedom Train/CIMG2214r1.jpg
Here's a picture after everything is closed up:

Here's a picture of the finished car from earlier in the year:
http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/tmmhead/American Freedom Train/P1010040r2.JPG
Here's a picture of the train from the run today:

Thanks to all those who have posted here with their ideas as this has really worked well with getting all the benefits of DCS 2.0 Protosound.
Tim