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Originally Posted by oldpa:

Was there ever a Santa Fe F3 that would run on O27 track?

 

Greg

Lionel's postwar F3s and the reproductions out there can run on O-27 track fine.  However, they were noted for having clearance problems on the older postwar O-27 1122 switch machine housings, resulting in the fuel tanks scraping against the housings that resulted in the paint on the tanks getting scraped/smudged, so a redesign of those switches were made to address that problem and are known as 1122(e)s. 

 

So if you have any of those early 1122 switches you may want to take all that into consideration.

Originally Posted by oldpa:

I was in my LHS and the PW F3's I saw were really big. didn't think they would run on O27. Thanks for the heads up.

 

Greg

 

They do Greg.  I have the 2245 Texas Special F3 from 1954, same size as the Santa Fe and it came in a set with 027 track.  That's the only track I ran it on when I was a kid.  But they will rub near the tanks on PW 027 switch housings.

 

Steve, Lady and Tex

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