Industrial Rail Trolley 811

1) It will run on any Lionel AC transformer.  

2) Problems with these cars include bad gears.  Do you get motor sounds?  

3) Atlas makes the cars now, but they are not much on parts for these cars.  

Good luck!  

The original IR trolleys were known to go up in flames. I seen a friends do it and read about another. Also seen someone trying to sell one in ebay that was melted.

Mine trolley burned up a trace on the edge of the board front to back. Very easy to see it had burned.  I soldered in a jumper wire and it worked fine. 

I have a couple of new/old stock powered trucks if you need them. Cheap. Don

Thanks everyone for your answers. I am waiting for the trolley to come in the mail. Just getting ready when it arrives. So it sounds that this trolly has fire issues, hmm. Not to inspiring but I am going to try and bypass the board to make a continuous running one way trolley. Any more issues that anyone else has had let me know.

Thanks

I've had 50% success rate, bought 2 from a dealer 1st was great but the second did go up in smoke. Did get a refund on return though.

James 

scale rail posted:

I have a couple of new/old stock powered trucks if you need them. Cheap. Don

I'm interested.  How much?  

Mitch

How about $15 for both and $12 shipping. There are no side frames on them just the power trucks. They have never been on the rails. Don

scale rail posted:

How about $15 for both and $12 shipping. There are no side frames on them just the power trucks. They have never been on the rails. Don

Sounds like a plan!  Drop me an email; it's on my profile.  Thanks!  

Mitch 

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Just for everyone's information, I would imagine getting IR parts from Atlas is not going to get better. Atlas has recently redesigned their website, and there is NO category anymore for Industrial Rail outside of track, and probably because they still have a lot of it in stock. No other mention of the Industrial Rail line anywhere on the website. As nice as the track was, not having any switch tracks was certainly a detriment to the line, and probably why it didn't sell as well as it might have had switch tracks been available.

Everyone acknowledges Jim Weaver's contribution to Atlas O when he was in charge. In addition to driving forward the O scale product line, it was under his tenure that Atlas purchased the Industrial Rail tooling.

When Sanda Kan dropped Atlas (with many other companies) from their production, Paul Graf of Atlas made a statement here that much of their tooling was damaged during the transition process and needed quite a bit of refurbishing (ie: additional money). I think it's safe to say this probably included the IR tooling.

With Jim Weaver's passing, maybe there were differences of opinion at Atlas. Then, if the IR tooling has been damaged, maybe Atlas didn't feel it was worth it to them, or their future plans, to invest more money into refurbishing that tooling.

At any rate, it doesn't look too promising for any immediate future releases of Industrial Rail products from Atlas O.

I have one that ran well until it didn't.  As stated above bad gears.  It has been consigned to a flatcar as a load heading to the scrap heap somewhere down the line.  The trucks have been removed for one of those winter days when I feel like messing with then to see of I can make it work.  

I have three that were custom painted PRT by Pennsylvania Heritage Models about 15 years ago. Only one of the three will run but because of the fire hazard they are sitting outside the car barn in the dead line.

Hello everyone

I received the 811 trolley and there was oil every where. Needless to say it did not work. Will work fine as a lit ornament. To all thanks for the info. Thanks All!