purchase parts for Lionel 6-18043 engine from Marty F

Here is what I have left.  This is what came from the tender.  I used the motor for parts and the smoke unit parts.   If you need any of this, hit my email.  FWIW, Lionel has these parts new.  Everything here tested good before I did my conversion.  It was a new engine.

Hi Marty:

Thank you for taking the time to respond.  I purchased a new sound card from Lionel and it works.  Looked at the LCRU board using a bright light and magnifying glass and found one of the components had melted and the board was burnt in a couple of places.  I think it is dead :-).    What I am looking for is a replacement LCRU board and the smoke unit parts.  The board is available from Lionel the smoke units have to be searched for.   In summary the parts you have left are not the ones I need for the repair.  

I will post a message on the forum and hopefully someone will have the parts.

Once again thank you for all you assistance, it was greatly appreciated.

I am glad you had some luck.  That was one beautiful looking locomotive.  The motor  and electronics not so good.   

I want to keep it looking and operating in its original glory.   That is why I am searching for replacement parts and not upgrade parts.   Told my wife and kids if I wanted an engine with advanced features I would buy one, like this one just they way is it (correction was -- before the electrical short and fire :-)  )

Best wishes.

Now this would make a nice legacy loco for Lionel to repop.

Ryan Kunkle will be our hope.  He is the man who gets the high end locomotives produced.  He has done a great job with some good issues.   I recently purchased the 21 inch C&O cars hoping that we may see the engine some day.  The Yellowbelly as it is is very well made.  It would make a great Legacy engine with whistle smoke.  I would love to see the blowdown like the Milwaukee S-3 has.   I have my current Yellowbelly converted to PS-2 and an MTH smoke unit.  Green LED markers front and red in the rear.

Ryan, we are hoping you do this.  It will be a good timing thing with the 21 inch cars.  

E-UNIT-79 posted:

Now this would make a nice legacy loco for Lionel to repop.

Unless it's retooled, a repop won't happen.

TRW

Well I hope Ryan is listening. That is a beautiful loco and if they have the cars for it out already, you never know. 

papertrw, what do you think needs to be re tooled?  Do you own one?

I  was guessing he means for the blowdown steam effect and the whistle smoke I know that otherwise they could do that perfect as a regular Legacy loco. 

Marty Fitzhenry posted:

papertrw, what do you think needs to be re tooled?  Do you own one?

The main tooling for both the locomotive and tender went missing a few years after it was produced.

Yes, I own one, but I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.

TRW