Parts availability for 0-4-0 switcher

Hopefully this will help.

http://www.lionel.com/Customer...;submitButton=Search

Thanks, Gerry !

That may be just what I am looking for. I had gone to the Lionel site yesterday however just "didn't hold my mouth right" as the saying goes !!

If the reverse circuit board looks bad, also check the locomotive motor with a DC power source. It is usually a bad motor that takes out the circuit board.

Thanks to Gerry and Chuck. Will take your advice.

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If the reverse circuit board looks bad, also check the locomotive motor with a DC power source. It is usually a bad motor that takes out the circuit board.

There is a dead 0-6-0 switcher sitting in my shop with this very problem: a bad motor and a bad reversing board. I found the parts, but their cost is more than the engine is worth. The owner doesn't want the repair done, even with free labor.

If I may: I just finished an upgrade on one of these - actually the SP version offered

for a very low price by the LCCA a year or so ago. They are well-made versions of

an old PW design, with modern can motors, etc.

- I put in command control using an ERR DC Commander (not Cruise Commander) from Modern Toy Train Parts. It was $60, my labor. Simple; I'll add sound later.

- Or: Dallee Electronics has plain reversing units for about $40; your labor, simple.

- There are instructions with everything; just read them. Much simpler than using a cell

phone.

- Not everything needs to be "sent back". This Lionel 0-4-0 has its origins in scale

tooling, and has a very realistic air about it, to me - shortcomings and all.

I re-lettered it (M&O), added Electrocouplers and a Dullcote overspray, and it lives among my more "scaly" locos just fine.