Reply to "American Flyer Y3: Two Right Feet"

Rusty TraqueOGR Forum Member

@Chuck K posted:
OK Rusty, now you have spread the disease and I can't unsee it either. Mine is the same.
However, I checked my Challenger and it is correct.

Sorry! eek It only took me almost a decade to notice it! shake

I did find a YouTuber whose Y3 rear engine is correct:

So, the issue isn't on all of the models. But, now that I see that mine isn't a one-off, my guess is the assembler was issued a bin of the wrong part at one time (or they got mixed up from the vendor. I worked in a manufacturing plant for 16 years, such things do happen.) Most likely it would a 50/50 shot a replacement would also be incorrect.

It's a chink in the armor of what is probably Lionel's best Flyer locomotive.

Rusty

12/23/218:27 AM

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