@Gigabyte posted:Thanks, I contacted Nicolas Smith Trains and MTH, both were very helpful. MTH said they could possibly send me replacement parts, however, I don't have soldering gun to do the work. I'm going to send it back to NST for repair. Out of the 3 MTH diesel locomotives, 2 have bad gears. The first, with a total lock-up on one truck and piece of missing gear and the second, on one truck, one wheel set is completely locked, so the locomotive does burn-outs when it tries to move. The 3rd one so far, makes a weird tick tick tick sound in reverse at any speed, slow tick to fast tick depending on the locomotive speed, hoping it goes away or that will need to be repaired as well, ugh....
I had the same tick tick noise on my Long Island GP38. Drove me crazy..Tehnician couldn't figure it out either..did some deep research on line..The issue was a simple few drops of oil in the rollers. Give it a try.
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