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I helped a friend of mine install 3 of them on his layout. They are installed as per the directions and are powered by the ACC. terminals of his MRC power pack. They work flawlessly. The dual coil , under the tie set up sounds interesting though. Let me know how that works out when...

The worm is the plastic spiral looking thing inside the gearbox on the end of the motor shaft. Here's a photo of a brass Athearn worm. I wish I could have gotten Thomas and friends in HO 15 years ago when my son was interested in them.

After looking at the photos again and remembering the one I had, there should have been a weight sitting on the frame behind the motor. These are a slightly upgraded version of the old AHM C-liner drive. In fact the idler gears, axles and wheels will interchange. The worm from an early (single...

You know me to well Bob.:rolleyes: Been there , done that.:D

A bigger one. http://www.the-gauge.com/showthread.php?t=6398

An Athearn #41034 4 prong coupling from an F7 or SW will work as a replacement for the MDC coupling. It may be a little easier to find.

Math.:rolleyes:

Glen, The trucks may be mounted that way so the tender is electrically neutral. I have a few locos that I should do that to to prevent arcing between the tender and loco on sharp radius turns. I used JB weld to repair a truck on one of my Aristo craft tenders. I am not sure it will work on...

This is a Varney Casey Jones I am rebuilding. I've added a can motor, regeared it and added extra electrical pickups. That was going to be the extent of the modifications (besides painting it) until I saw a photo of South Simcoe's #1057. I noticed it was similar to the Varney model and had a...

After seeing this page that discribes the Arbour Models 4-6-0s I am not sure it is an Arbour Models http://railroad.union.rpi.edu/rolling-stock/Steam/Steam-models-Arbor.php It doesn't look like the Aristo craft either...

What a beauty. You got me on this one. Arbour Models is a possibility. Aristo craft Maybe? I found an add for a United Scale Models V&T 4-6-0 that looks like it, but I thought the United Models were brass. could be wrong. Could you post a photo of the bottom of the tender (and truck)?

Was the Lionel slope back tender from the JE dies? I've been drooling over the JE Mike tender on Dan's site. I just need to save a few bucks and put an order together.

Nice work Bob.:thumb: There is a photo of one of the Coke cars on the TYCO Trains Resource site. http://tycotrain.tripod.com/freightcars/id21.html I hear there are more than one version of this car.

My plans for 2007 are to build a larger trainroom to house a larger workshop and all the layouts I am working on and complete most of the loco and rolling stock projects I have going. Realisticly, I will be lucky if I get half of my current projects done.

What parts do you need for the 4-6-2? Yardbird Classic Trains has some parts. http://yardbirdtrains.com/index.htm

The only train related gift was the Faller bridge kit I need to finish this section of the 4 piece N scale layout I am restoring. :thumb: I did get some cash to spend at the LHS.:D

Yes I do. As Mikey said, The person who gives or does a selfless deed from the heart expecting nothing in return.

Good to hear you are doing better Michael. Take care.

I have a few of those drives. A couple F-9s and a GP-40. They are great runners when tuned propperly. I put a larger can motor in one(with some modification to the chassis) and it out preforms the Bachmann plus locos I have. Gem used those same chassis in their brass F-9s.

Although I've been sidetracked on it's progress by other projects. Here is a link to a thread on my HO layout. I'll get back to it sooner or later. http://www.the-gauge.com/showthread.php?t=11976