Talked with Jerry quite a while this morning. Here are pictures of his set. As I suspected, it is a Std Gauge 3930.
If this were mine, working on it would be a no brainer, but it is not mine and a 3930 with this nice of a casting is pretty rare, so I may be a bit reluctant to tackle it. One wrong move and a gear mounting post will snap off.
The loco only needs the one driver to be slid over to put in great display condition. A tiny dab of crazy glue to keep it from sliding around. I gave him Midges phone number to try MTH for repro trucks on the cars, although if the final decision is to only display it, I'd think an epoxy repair of the original truck would be best, keeping it all original parts.
I only recall one of these coming across e-bay, but I have not really been following Dorfan faithfully for very long. That one had the insides filled with epoxy.
For Jerry's insurance purposes, what is a SWAG at the value of one in this nice of condition?
Anyone know of someone with experience repairing them?
Steve