Pre war Lionel engine

Can you post pictures of the underside of the locomotive showing the motor and chassis.

Larry

I've seen the 1684 with both fiber bottom plates and plastic bottom plates(which look like the "scout" type motor at quick glance). Here are pictures of each:

It is a metal plate and looks somewhat like the bottom photo. I compared it to two different Scout locos I have. It is identical to the 1101  EXCEPT the 1101 has a silver rivet in the middle of the plastic motor bottom. The back floor on the 1684 is straight with a pin to hook the tender drawbar to. The Scout floor is curved. I read somewhere that Lionel in the rush to et the trains out as "Scouts" used some prewar tooling. I looked at an 1110 I have and it is different.  The plastic motor bottom surprised and puzzled me.  I will have to teach myself how to download photos but my problem is I do e-mails & searches on a 10-11 yr. old Toshiba laptop. It won't recognize my Canon 60D camera. I have a newer  Toshiba for pictures but it has Windows 8 which I hate. 

Jim,

  You may be able to get an inexpensive USB Flash card reader that would allow you to read and download photos from the Flash memory card onto an older computer. I have one for mine, and it works perfectly. No need to download the camera software into an older operating system.

Larry