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Fixing a C-Liner (was 'Dollar Tank Car' = A1G Vinegar Tank Car)

G.J. Irwin All Messages By This Member #1159 Mike asked, A1G FM CPA 24-5 Loco Pennsy. (needs new motor - any suggestions) Your list-owner replies... I don't mean to be cheeky here but perhaps the best option if you want the original motor is to find another copy of the loco.? There was a seller on eBay once, I believe his handle was "Bob11156" or something like that, who must have bought the entire remnants of the Rivarossi factory!? He was putting up lots of dozens of "doesn't work" A1G locos.? He probably sold thousands of them over the course of several years.? I dimly recall that he sold pieces, parts and wholes at train shows as well before going to eBay.?? These days I hardly see any A1G parts.? The eBay seller "soo-much-stuff" has a lot of Atlas parts but nothing that old. I believe it's possible to remotor these units with something far better than the original-- perhaps Doug Gosha will along to comment on this point.?? Cheers, George
Martin Landry All Messages By This Member #1160 开云体育 About a decade ago I remember reading an article about rebuilding the original motor using the armature from a Bachmann HO scale slot car. The article said that they’d used that same armature in some of their early N scale trains but I can’t remember which ones. I had a printout of it for the longest time as I have a trio of unpowered/undecorated C-Liners and thought to one day do them up as CN CPA 16-5s, but that project was shelved when I thought TrueLineTrains was going to ship their version and discarded the article. I think it might have come from the web, but it was a poor copy and the pictures weren’t very legible. I think I may still have the c-liners though. Cheers, Martin? Sent from a mobile device, may contain typos toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Apr 13, 2020, at 6:39 PM, G.J. Irwin <groups@...> wrote: ?Mike asked, A1G FM CPA 24-5 Loco Pennsy. (needs new motor - any suggestions) Your list-owner replies... I don't mean to be cheeky here but perhaps the best option if you want the original motor is to find another copy of the loco.? There was a seller on eBay once, I believe his handle was "Bob11156" or something like that, who must have bought the entire remnants of the Rivarossi factory!? He was putting up lots of dozens of "doesn't work" A1G locos.? He probably sold thousands of them over the course of several years.? I dimly recall that he sold pieces, parts and wholes at train shows as well before going to eBay.?? These days I hardly see any A1G parts.? The eBay seller "soo-much-stuff" has a lot of Atlas parts but nothing that old. I believe it's possible to remotor these units with something far better than the original-- perhaps Doug Gosha will along to comment on this point.?? Cheers, George
Mike Gloss All Messages By This Member #1161 Hi George, Were you able to put a manu date on the #3011 Vinegar car? did you like my pictures? Mike toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 6:39 AM G.J. Irwin <groups@...> wrote: Mike asked, A1G FM CPA 24-5 Loco Pennsy. (needs new motor - any suggestions) Your list-owner replies... I don't mean to be cheeky here but perhaps the best option if you want the original motor is to find another copy of the loco.? There was a seller on eBay once, I believe his handle was "Bob11156" or something like that, who must have bought the entire remnants of the Rivarossi factory!? He was putting up lots of dozens of "doesn't work" A1G locos.? He probably sold thousands of them over the course of several years.? I dimly recall that he sold pieces, parts and wholes at train shows as well before going to eBay.?? These days I hardly see any A1G parts.? The eBay seller "soo-much-stuff" has a lot of Atlas parts but nothing that old. I believe it's possible to remotor these units with something far better than the original-- perhaps Doug Gosha will along to comment on this point.?? Cheers, George

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