Tyco help

You mean like what was in the tender-drive Chattanooga 2-8-0?

Mark in Oregon

No parts,  ut it might be easiest to pick up ajunker or two off ebay for a few bucks.

@Dennis Holler posted:

No parts,  ut it might be easiest to pick up ajunker or two off ebay for a few bucks.

totally agree, Junker's are everywhere and cheep

@Strummer posted:

You mean like what was in the tender-drive Chattanooga 2-8-0?

Mark in Oregon

I'm no expert, but the pic he shows is not the tender drive from that 2-8-0.  That one was the same motor used in a number of the diesels and a royal PIT@ to work with.  The motor in the OP's pic looks downright user friendly, probably Mantua in origin.

That's not a Tyco PowerTorque motor. Looks like a Bachmann pancake to me. PowerTorques have big exposed gears on the side of them along with a shiny brass(or pot metal) pinion gear.

While that might be true, I recommend what others have said and purchase a similar engine on Ebay scrounge parts from. If this Tyco engine has some special meaning for you (which I assume it does), you can find parts there. A better/cheap option also might be a train show, when dealers seem to be "more reasonable" as to what used Tyco trains are really worth.

@Grampstrains posted:

The best fix for Tyco is the trash can.

Tyco trains were my first HO trains, and as basic as they might have been, to a little boy they were the best. I had the Atlantic Coast Line purple and silver F A and B units, the B&O chromed passenger train, and the 0-4-0 steam switcher, along with an assortment of freight cars. I spent many happy hours of train operation on the living room linoleum floor with Tyco.

I had and remember that beautiful TYCO Atlantic Coast Line purple and silver FA unit pulling a freight set on my living room floor, circa early 1960's.

Compared to my Gilbert Flyer S gauge, the detailing on the TYCO HO was wonderful. The smoothness of the mechanism was very apparent.