O Gauge Engine Repair

If not there are plenty of places you can mail to for repair. Shipping costs these days are very reasonable and if out of state you may save sales tax. Sometimes I find it cheaper and easier to just send them out. I still use my LHS heavily but I am fortunate to have a great one nearby. 

is this a Lionel engine?  just send it back to them.

What loco do you need serviced and what problem(s) are you having?  Many an engine has been repaired through the knowledge of some of our experts here. 

Lionel is doing out of warranty repairs on engines

I inherited 3 engines. 2 with dummy's and one with a tender. I believe they all are from the early 1950's. They have not been run for years and I have no way of testing them to see if they work. In addition, if they do work I'm sure they would need some kind of cleaning.

Thanks, John

Unless you have personal issues with Sommerfelds, I'd use them. Dick Teal does the repairs for them and he is an excellent repairman.  Joe

The only issue I have is he does not do the repairs on site. I didn't want to wait 2 weeks to get an estimate. I guess the train hobby is a dying art when you can only find one guy in a 3 state area that does this kind of work. I went to a stamp collection show and there were 6 vendors and no one under 80 was there loking at stamps. So Sad.

In most cases, it can be tough to find guys who do post war service and repairs. There are quite a few on this forum who can do it for you if you don't mind shipping them out. But if you are in Milwaukee you could go down to Chicago. There are some good places in that area to get post war service. Service work can be anywhere from reasonable to way too high depending on who does it. Be sure to ask up front about rates.

If you are game to try it yourself this may help-

http://www.justtrains.com/Service/maint-main.asp

Rob

Thanks

Appleton- Wisconsin

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The only issue I have is he does not do the repairs on site. 

In my area, it is very common for a shop's service person to work offsite.

Yes I do. I live in Sturtevant, Wisconsin.  Items can be droped off at my house, droped off at the Swap meet in Racine at Roma Lodge in the fall.  I use to work at Gary's Hobby Center in Racine Wisconsin for almost 20 years.  My father purchased the remaining Lionel parts from Casanova's in the mid 80's.  My email is in my profile

Do you have a phone number where I can call you?

here is my work cell phone, 262-515-3623, Please leave a message if I dont awnser and I will return the call latter in the evening.