I own an unpowered Legacy WP F-3 6-38710. The unit is 9 years old but has very little run time maybe less than an hour. I ran it at Christmas and noticed it was not smoking. The fan was going but it wasn't hot enough to smoke so I turned the smoke off and set it aside intending to work on it later. Two days ago, I put it on the track and on the first loop everything was fine except the coupler would not fire . Then the headlight went out. Finally, it seemed to be smoking but that was because the electronics were fried. I then looked up the parts from big L. The parts are not available. I heard about this and now I am a victim. It seems to me that since Legacy locos are still being produced other engine parts would substitute. Does anyone have suggestions? Secondly, what caused this? I intend to pull off the body but it sounds that the mother board failed however the smoke unit is probably needs work. Your help is appreciated. Thanks Art
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