@Kenneth Klemmer posted:I don't know what kind of budget you are trying to stay in, but an original mechanism is probably much more robust with a little maintenance and would likely outlast a modern mechanism... seems like something could be done for around $50-75. Of course, time is not on your side.
The main problem with that is that maintenance parts for the original mechanisms that go in these earlier locomotives are quite difficult to come by. They're not as readily available as the parts for the stuff produced from 1924 and beyond.