Absolutely.

Thanks

@@SMTMainline your welcome

Thanks!

Thanks 👍

@@SMTMainline Yeah! No problem! Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

Same onto you!

Nice

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@@sethandotts3763 no one cares bro

Something like that, yeah.

@I hate black People Marci?

Thank you!

Also mine....came from italian LIMA

Thank you!

It's not a bad loco, It's nice that this style had five pole motors instead of the three poles found on power torques.

@@SMTMainline yes very true. I really wish they could make them again it would make the model railroad market come alive with variety

Thanks, you too!

Haha, thanks!

@@SMTMainline you welcome congrats on 20K

I’m struggling to see what anyone would do with this information

@@smoothcriminal9698 ya know, I am to lol.

Maybe 2021?

@@SMTMainline yeah sure it would take a long time to get all of them out

Funny coincidence.

I don't know about that but thanks!

They might be power torque models which aren't very reliable but are fairly easy to fix.

@@SMTMainline alrighty thanks it'll give me something to do

Yeah!

That's nice, what kind did you get?

The yellow & blue color scheme was one used by Santa Fe for their switchers & road freight engines. I think Santa Fe painted its very first diesel switchers black.

Doesn't seem like a bad deal if it was a runner.

That's too bad. Do you plan to get it working?

I dont know.

I think this one needs a bit of oil and grease although I have yet to find out how to access the gear box.

@@SMTMainline If memory serves me right since I haven't needed to open up mine for a couple months ago, It should open up from the bottom, or on the motor casing, I can tell you once I manage or remember how to open it, for lubrication on mine, I used a brand called Goo-Gone, which works really well and the Railroad Club I'm in has a bottle of it, which is how I found out about it. I'm glad if I helped you out with this dilemma.

Interesting history. I recently purchased the transformers loco also included in that article although it has a power torque drive instead of the MU2.

Very nice.

Merry Christmas. I'm sorry to hear about what happened, I hope you get better soon.

Yep, super heathy and certainly *not* in need of oil. I will drink the Quebec Maple, they make it best!

@@SMTMainline Quebec Maple Coke, that is...

I still have them but I haven't installed them on any other locos. They are ready if I need to though.

Yeah!

If it's a power torque that would make sense.

Victory.

@@SMTMainline thanks i just could not figure out how to get the engine off

Have you tried cleaning the wheels?

@@SMTMainline so. I tried that as well as cleaning my testing track and adding oil to the locomotive and now it runs very smoothly.

Not that I'm aware of but the Santa fe had a lot of different locos and paint schemes throughout the years so they might have had something similar.

The Tyco is a fictional locomotive design. The Santa Fe though did have small numbers of industrial sized switchers including several GE 44 tonners, some Whitcombs and Plymouths, etc. Some of their oddballs though were just for working things like tie plants and weren't even standard gauge.

I think similar locomotives exist but I don't think these were made to scale.

Of corse!

Have you tested it?

@@SMTMainline no i haven't found it yet sadly but its a bachmann not a tyco.

Yeah, I was happy to discover that. The power torques aren't too hard to fix but they also aren't reliable.

It's getting redone.

Rubbing alcohol and Q-tips usually get the job done unless you have a track cleaner.

Ok thank you

I agree 👍

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Actually it’s one 8 letter word and 1 3 letter word

I like that.

He gets them from a train store, hobby shop & ebay

What the other guy said but also antique stores and train shows.

It might have a different problem though.

Yeah like the light turns on and the engine sounds like it is running but it doesn’t

Life Like Proto trains were great. Regular life like trains were low quality although not the worst out there and they also were fairly cheap so I wouldn't expect too much of them. Good sets to get started with if you didn't have a ton to spend.

Pretty dumb on my part, I will have to stick it on a shelf for 20 years to get it back lol.

@@SMTMainline It is possible that Santa Fe ran their switchers through the washer once in a while.

Not much work for the motor plus most of them have 3 poles which are quicker then 5 poles.

I've had one since 1978 runs like hell

Not many.

That's the best part, people don't want junked engines so they can be found really cheap.

My bad.

Np