David, I live in a relatively small town, and even we have a Lionel
retailer. I bet you could get it repaired. I imagine replacing it would be
costly! I remember the price tags! Seems they always go up a tad this time
of year.

Grim

"David Fontaine" <dav### [at] faricynet> wrote in message
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> "Rick [Kitty5]" wrote:
>
> > dont know about anyone else, but i always found the linkages on steam
trains
> > facinating - the more comples the better :) - very nice anim!!
>
> I pity the fool who don't like steam engines!
>
> We have a realllly old Lionel one, very heavy, only a 0-2-0, runs like
crap now
> (full power it accelerates pretty slow and goes tops ~8 ft/s, makes a
grating
> sound), but it has a really cool linkage, missing on one side tho :(
>
> Bar from first wheel to second wheel, second bar from second wheel to
large
> piston, third bar from second wheel (offset a few degrees from the second
bar)
> to a small lever which doubles the motion from small piston.
>
> It's a 4-stroke locomotive; the offset from the second bar to the third
bar on
> the wheel is 90 degrees and the phase offset from the big piston to the
little
> piston is one fourth of the period. Goes big (lower) piston, upper piston,
> opposite lower piston, opposite upper piston.
>
> Would be sweet if it ran decent and could pull any cars, and if it didn't
tip
> over on every curve.
>
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