I recently put a Z-Stuff Semaphore on my layout. Real neat little sucker, love the "boom" swinging up and down and the lights. While I was running trains, I noticed the semaphore began to slow down dramatically over the hour or so I was running, in some cases, not being able to raise from Green, to Yellow, and so on. The loop it is on is rather small, so it gets activated very frequently. I'm hoping the motor isn't starting to totally wear out but am curious how long the motor life in something like this is? If the motor life isn't very long, I'll move it to "protect" a siding that doesn't see much action so I can still enjoy it but not wear it out so fast.
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