I have a couple of Lionel locomotives with electro-couplers. An NW-2 and a 2332 GG1. What a pleasure it is to operate these two locos over RCS tracks. They are so much more reliable than the thumbtack variety. Just as operating cars with sliding shoe contacts are easier on my nerves when compared to the plunger type operators.
Just some thoughts as I continue on with life.....LOL
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I figured this would be the best place to continue the subject of Electro-Couplers.
The Lionel 2332 GG1 has them. If the contact shoe is missing but the coupler is still in place I would need at the least, a new contact shoe. However, it seems to me that it would be better to replace the entire coupler assembly. Not the entire truck, just the coupler plate and sliding shoe.
In the Greenbergs Repair & Operating Manual for Lionel Trains, on page 169 there is the "End truck complete", part #2332-75. I wish it were only $3.00, as the page indicates.....LOL But shouldn't I be able to get just the bottom plate and coil coupler assembly, including the sliding shoe ?
On the pages beginning with page 651, numerous coupler/truck assemblies are shown, but not anything indicating it would fit a 2332.
Replacing the flying shoe is probably the easiest repair since the 2332's couplers are mounted permanently to the pony trucks. Henning's has the repair parts for those with working electro mechanisms and spring buss bar intact. Coincidentally, my 2332 is missing both axle mount plates....one of those little repairs that keeps getting ignored.
Bruce
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