I am working on a Williams by Williams NYC PA diesel. Powered by 2 motors with Road # 4205. Does anyone know of a Data Base that lists all Williams engines. Looking to find Catalog # and year it was manufactured. Thank You
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I am not aware of any data base of Williams locomotives. As for the year it was manufactured, that is a tough question as well. They were made for many years starting in the late 1980's to best of my knowledge all the way through ownership by Bachmann. There isn't a lot of difference between the models. Some of the earlier ones had Ott sound systems, but otherwise the parts are pretty universal. I don't recall if the PA goes far enough back to have the motors without flywheels like the early FP45s, the SD45 and a few others.
Not sure I was helpful, but hopefully a little?
I was a dealer when Williams introduced the PA's and I think they were the first 3 rail O PA's to hit the market. R.O.W. had announced some and perhaps Lionel as well but I think Williams was first to get them out to the public. They had flywheels and were very smooth. Beautiful graphics too. Only issue was visual in that the trucks were undersized leaving a lot of 'air' around them giving these mighty beats what we jokingly called 'the high-water look'. A scale PA had huge trucks that looked like the big feet on a puppy!
A seldom seen set of the handsome North Coast Ltd
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