I would like the drawings (already have the parts list) for any of the 44 ton switchers Lionel produced - mine is the 627, but I'm guessing they would all be close to the same.
Olsen's has only parts lists as far as I could tell.
Anyone?
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If Olsen's does not have any drawings, the odds are that Lionel didn't do any.
Lionel didn't do drawing for every item. When drawings for a particular engine didn't exist, service stations had to choose a drawing for a similar locomotive.
Just this morning I was looking for #38 Operating water tower drawings. They do not seem to exist either.
Right, no drawings for the 44 ton engine, only a parts list. servicemen back in the day would use the drawings from the 600 series switchers. The 38 water tower didn't even have a parts list, much less a drawing! Not every engine or accessory was documented.
One that really was needed was for the 415 fueling station.
OK, I just thought I might have been missing something - Olsen's didn't have it and neither did Greenberg, so that was my first clue(s) 
I'm mostly through repairing/cleaning it, but wanted to be certain I was stacking washers in the right order on both the armature and the coupler centering assembly. This one suffered greatly from over-zealous oiling (esp the commutator) and what I guess must have been a "ooops, I dropped it" or a "step-on" moment to have put the very slight bend in the axle, but it sure caused some binding - fixed now!
Thanks for the feedback!
George
This should help (2 years late).
@ftauss, just so you know, the postwar 44 ton switcher and the one you linked above, are two different engines internally, and somewhat externally. For starters, the postwar one (the version mentioned in the original post) had an open frame AC motor, not truck mounted DC can motors. So the sheet metal frame is also very different to accommodate the AC motor.
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