Decided to do a video this weekend. I just repaired the 447 and it is now running great! I was having a problem with the armature overheating to the point that after a few minutes one could not touch the brush tubes without getting burned. I pulled a wheel and swapped armatures and that did the trick. After getting the original armature out, I discovered it was coated in grease/oil and was unlike the used one that I put in, which was clean and shiny. It ran great with the newly swapped armature, no overheating.
So here is a 1939 American Flyer 447 Hudson with 3 chrome streamline cars, a 1938 American Flyer 1680 Hudson with 4 red streamline cars, and a 1931 American Flyer 3109 engine with 3 freight cars. Unfortunately, I did not have a set on the Standard Gauge loop, so nothing is running on the outside loop.
NWL
