Looking for traction tires for my diesel locomotives - very frustrated

Jeffrey,

Both of your topics have been discussed in this Forum at length -- many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many times in the past, including quite recently.

Search is your friend.  If you type either 'traction tires' or 'bullfrog snot' in the exact phrase box on the Forum Search page (go to the search tab) you will get plenty of relevant feedback.

Mike

I use MTH traction tires, they work fine wherever I've needed them.   For most diesels, the DE-0000018 size tires are good.

As for Bullfrog Snot, I think that should be outlawed.  IMO it's worthless crap!  First off, if you have traction tires, you need something that fills the groove in the wheel anyway.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

I use MTH traction tires, they work fine wherever I've needed them.   For most diesels, the DE-0000018 size tires are good.

THIS.

I use this particular tire as the replacement on my Legacy diesels. Readily available and - in my view - much better than the OEM spare tires that come from Lionel.

No need to be frustrated, the boys above have laid out the right path for you, ….

tire # DE-0000018 is available at mthpartsandsales.com. You can buy them individually, or in convenient multi-packs. See below,…

Pat

I can appreciate OP Jeffrey’s frustration. Until I locked on to using MTH’s traction tires shown in Pat’s post above, I was bewildered, too.

I run only Lionel locomotives, but MTH’s tires fit well and last and last. 👍

@Yellowstone Special posted:

I can appreciate OP Jerry’s frustration. Until I locked on to using MTH’s traction tires shown in Pat’s post, I was bewildered, too.

I run only Lionel locomotives, but MTH’s tires fit well and last a long time. 👍

If you guys take a moment to peruse through the improved mthpartsandsales.com traction tire list Mike Reagan has prepared, you’ll find out that 99.9% of all MTH tires can be used to service other brands…..If you guys would like, I’d be happy to point out what works with what, on another thread, however, it’s pretty much common sense,…..just match locomotive to locomotive, ….chances are it’ll match,….

Pat

I can vouch for the mth diesel traction tires as well. My first legacy diesel  had a horrible death wobble to it. Pulled the over sized , thick, and gummy like oem tires off. Put the mth ones on, that happen to fit  in the groove much better imo. She's as smooth as silk with no wobble. It does get frustratimg, especially when you over look  the obvious. But, these guys and this forum are a great value to us.

@harmonyards posted:

If you guys take a moment to peruse through the improved mthpartsandsales.com traction tire list Mike Reagan has prepared, you’ll find out that 99.9% of all MTH tires can be used to service other brands…..If you guys would like, I’d be happy to point out what works with what, on another thread, however, it’s pretty much common sense,…..just match locomotive to locomotive, ….chances are it’ll match,….

Pat

The MTH chart also gives you wheel diameters so you can pick out tires for most any engine.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

The MTH chart also gives you wheel diameters so you can pick out tires for most any engine.

Yes, there sure is, but, if enough folks don’t understand the cross compatibility of the MTH tires, then a short tutorial can be done, ……

Pat

@harmonyards posted:

No need to be frustrated, the boys above have laid out the right path for you, ….

tire # DE-0000018 is available at mthpartsandsales.com. You can buy them individually, or in convenient multi-packs. See below,…

Pat

If these are installed in pairs why a 5-pack?

Thanks,

John

@Craftech posted:

If these are installed in pairs why a 5-pack?

Thanks,

John

In case you break one

Pat

thanks everybody. In the future, I will better avail myself of the search capability. That said, in my experience, when you search for something on a site, you often times get so much data and it's almost impossible to go through. Not sure that's the case here, but I will try the search on this site to see what it comes up with - just for future reference.

At least there is a simple Traction Tire Chart on MTH's website whereas - to the best of my knowledge - there is no such equivalent on Lionel's website or anywhere else.

@JEFFREY RUCKGABER 050219 posted:

thanks everybody. In the future, I will better avail myself of the search capability. That said, in my experience, when you search for something on a site, you often times get so much data and it's almost impossible to go through. Not sure that's the case here, but I will try the search on this site to see what it comes up with - just for future reference.

Even to the more seasoned parts searchers, the limited capability of the search engines are a major issue, I wouldn't feel bad.  Sometimes you just need to experiment with various keywords until you hit on a winner.

@JEFFREY RUCKGABER 050219 posted:

thanks everybody. In the future, I will better avail myself of the search capability. That said, in my experience, when you search for something on a site, you often times get so much data and it's almost impossible to go through. Not sure that's the case here, but I will try the search on this site to see what it comes up with - just for future reference.

That’s OK, Jeffrey and my bad for calling you Jerry in my previous post, which was corrected. Getting old, you know. 😉