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Repair a Lionel train motor

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:00:46 +0000

If you want to fix a Lionel train, what you probably really need to do is repair a Lionel train motor. There isn’t much to the rest of the train. The motors tend to be pretty rugged and they’ve held

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How to disassemble a Marx 490 locomotive

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:00:02 +0000

Disassembling a Marx 490 locomotive isn’t too difficult, but it’s very different from other Marx locomotives. Once you take one apart, though, you’ll see why it was designed how it was. It was Marx’s lowest-cost locomotive, and it could be assembled

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How to disassemble a Marx 999 locomotive

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 12:00:48 +0000

Disassembling a Marx 999 locomotive isn’t too difficult, and it’s easier than the Marx 666, but it helps to have some instructions. The nice thing about the 999 is that if you can disassemble it, there’s a long, long list of

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How to disassemble a Marx 666 locomotive

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:00:26 +0000

Disassembling a postwar Marx 666 locomotive, or its plastic counterpart the 1666, isn’t too difficult, but it helps to have some instructions. Marx designed its trains so that a father or older brother could service them, so it comes apart

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How to disassemble a Lionel 2026 or 2037 locomotive

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:02:01 +0000

Years ago, I tried to take apart my dad’s Lionel 2026 to fix it, and I gave up trying to figure it out. Today I scored a similar 2037 locomotive at an estate sale in fixer-upper condition. To my knowledge,

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How to fix old Marx locomotives

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:11:06 +0000

I’ve been noticing that a post I made several years ago about my experiments fixing a Marx 490 train locomotive has been getting a disconcerting number of hits. Disconcerting, because I repeated some advice on how to fix old Marx

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