Comments on: Old Tyco Locomotives https://blog.model-train-help.com/2011/05/old-tyco-locomotives.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-tyco-locomotives Model railroads and model trains Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:35:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Br'er Shaygetz https://blog.model-train-help.com/2011/05/old-tyco-locomotives.html#comment-1043 Mon, 02 May 2011 02:15:45 +0000 http://68.171.208.138/~blogmode/2011/05/old-tyco-locomotives.html#comment-1043 Their motors are less than satisfactory…made for the toy market, even if you get them running, it won’t be long before they go south again.

Don’t lose hope though as many of us TYCO fans simply remotor them with CD-ROM motors…

http://s126.photobucket.com/albums/p96/1shaygetz/videos/?action=view&current=PA060189.mp4

…while for the Chattanooga, the blocks are the same. On this one, the small pinion gear cracked but I found that the large bull gear from another worked just fine by flipping it around and reducing the size of the gear.

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