I picked this Lionel FM today at an estate sale, it was in parts mixed in with a box of track. The shell is dirty and has some scratches the biggest problem is one window strut is broken but it is fifty nine years old.
I started cleaning up poking around to see what parts I will need. I came across a problem with one of the trucks as I was cleaning the grease off the gearbox. The drive gear was spinning on the axle, so I removed axle to see what was wrong. I found a cracked gear so a replacement is needed.
I wonder if the gear was cracked when it was made and the engine ran sluggish and the owner took it apart to fix it and it spent the rest of its life apart.
I will keep updating as I go along with this restore.
franktrain