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Having modelled American models for many years it doesn't take long to find out that some couplers are not compatible with others, there are Accumates, McHenry, Kadee and Bachmann Dummy couplers that when put into a consist cause havoc by not coupling or uncoupling while in motion, this situation oc...

The Bogies or as the Americans say Trucks should just pull straight out of the loco, the gears can be inspected that way, to replace just push them back into the loco but make sure they are the same way round as when you pulled them out, your problem could also be as simple as a piece of fluff that ...

As an Aussie I can say that anyone modelling Victorian Railways would give their left leg for one of those babies, that is the non rivet counter type modellers.

I have owned several American HO and N scale locos and found many of their non Spectrum models have problems with split gears, as a matter of fact last month I bought two brand new N scale Bachmann Trams that had the same problem as yours, on close inspection I found they both had split gears straig...