Information on Weaver Diesel

Could be a custom run Weaver engine. Have you tried going to the Weaver trains website to see any info about it?

 

Lee Fritz

HI

Not much maybe around $120.00 maybe less because those engine suffer from split gears.

my 2 cents

Andre.

Red box weaver locos had the plastic shaft drive system. It also had a good single Pittman can motor mounted horizontally but as stated above suffered from split gear shafts and not much die cast metal on the loco itself. There was weight on the inside but scale speed and lack of traction tires have low pulling power. They do make great pusher locos since the wheels can slip on the rails.

 

 For the 3 rail model max value-even mint-would be $120-130 range. Lack of tmcc and a sound system pushed the value down.

I have owned a couple of the early weavers (FA2).  Common problems I have found.
The third railpick up wires came lose.
The was the reverse unit was bad , easy fix replaced with williams 6 amp board.
The engine is too light and needs weight
The dive shaft from the motor to the transmission has come lose and is not turning the drive shaft. I will explain. Part of the driveshaft is connected to the motor like the worm gears on the can motors.  It comes lose the motor spins but is not turning the shaft. No real easy fix. I used a combination of shrink wrap and super glue.
Since it is chain driven you universal joints. On turns less then 042 they will bind and not rotate and break .
You will also notice that the pilot is fixed and also effects the turning radius.  In the differential s the gears are plastic and tend to break. Weaver had an upgrade kit but it is nolonger made. You best bet for replacement parts for the drivetrain is a Hobby shop in Michigan that sells replacement parts for red caboose engines. Weaver really won't beable to help as these kits were made in the around 1990 when they first got into the market.

Doug

These are probably the most accurate scale models of the RS-3 done in O but they are

also pretty poor from an operators stand point.  They are 2 rail models that were adapted

for three rail but they still have a lot of two rail characteristics.  They are light weight and

poor pullers.  They have relatively wide turning radii because of the horizontal chain drive.

There is little in the way of room "inside" to make changes in the electronics or to add

sound or anything else.  

 

You could try to salvage the shell, fuel tank and railings and use some other chassis to

kitbash an RS-3 that would be more accurate than what the other guys have offered in

three rail.