QUICK VIDEO LIONEL CENTURY CLUB NIAGARA

Alex,

First of all I think I owe you a medal for figuring out how to get the shell off. LOL!

Thank you very much!! That is exactly what that engine needed!! That is one of my favorite engines. I can't wait to get it back and actually run it like that.

That engine never smoked well since I got it. That is smoking awesome.

Thanks Again,

Mike R

Nice engine!

Gunny

Thanks gunny,

Alex also did both the smoke and 4 chuff upgrades on my Lionel #606 N&W Scale J.

Thanks Again,

Mike R

Alex,

nice job on that niagara, I had that engine some time ago and it was a very nice engine. Really smokes now. 

Dave

Geez, everyone's gettin' new pictures of themselves here on the forum, now you too huh Alex...?

Oh yea, great job on the Niagara!

Best,

Dave

Yea i did that a few months ago i love this engine now to.. I can get the shell off in 15 mins not joking ... Its not hard ..I done it twice

Alex, are you mounting your reed switch and magnets on the driver or on a trailing truck wheel?

Thanks to all of you guys.

Mike your welcome, it took a while to figure out how to get the shell off, but it was well worth it.

Gunny your right it's a beautiful engine.

Thanks Dave1 it's some engine

Hi Dave I was tired of our picture, so I thought I would put a new one.

Jojofry this is a beautiful engine, I really like it. When I first started to dismantle it I removed many more screws than I had to. After a close inspection it was only necessary to remove about eight screws.

Alex

Hi Peter, I mount my reed switch on the trailing truck and two magnets on the trailing wheel. I've tried in the past mounting the reed switch and magnets on the bottom chassis and the drive wheels, but the reed switch is very very close too the track and it looked like it will get caught on something. Also mounting the magnets on the drive wheels you will have too use four of them and they will have too be perfectly spaced

to achieve 4 chuffs. Another issue with mounting the magnets on the drive wheels is they can get knocked off by the edge of the chassis as the drive wheels shift. I'm sure plenty of the guys did it that way, and it worked well for them,  but it hasn't worked out for me.

Alex

Jojofry did you rebuild your smoke unit. If you did I wanted to know something.

When I opened the smoke unit I noticed a very large resistor in size. When looking up the parts on the Lionel site it shows a very thin 27ohm resistor, but like I said the resistor that was in there didn't look like a 27ohm, it looked like a 6 or 8 ohm

resistor. But I replaced it with the thin 27ohm one. Did yours look the same as this one.

Alex

I put a mth one in mine it was 20 ohm.. But i did put 8 ohms in my nyc f3s that had 27s in them and they smoke as good as any legacy/ mth engines i have ..So i bought (10)  8ohms at lionels open house they where 50% off... To answer your question its a 27 for sure ...Heres mine smoking 

Thanks very much, looks awesome.

Alex

Another great job Alex! I really like these niagaras, however the 2 chuffs along numerous issues with them posted here made me shy away. Your mod has rekindled some interest.

I love mine its a great runner and love the horn and whistle it has ..

Thanks Rick, this engine belongs to  a friend of mine, and it's been with me for a few weeks

and I really like it. I was hoping he would forget that I have it LOL LOL.

I could only hope.  Wait until he see's this.

Also what jojofry said it has a horn and and whistle, and they sound awesome.

Thanks again, Alex

Alex,

I have a brand new CCII engine, do you / would you upgrade my engine?

Feel free to email me at kbmkam@aol.com

Would like to discuss this with you.

Kevin

Another great job.