Hello guys and gals..........
Did the MPC change the tooling to make gears out of plastic instead of metal from the postwar era. The gears are still made of plastic to this day on the lionel F-3's since the first early MPC F-3's came out in 1973 or 74 ? Early F-3's uses white color on the gears and later changed to black color gears but still plastic. My #18117 Santa Fe F-3's came with black plastic gears and I changed over to metal just like the postwar 2383's.
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Tiffany
