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@RickO posted:

Fwiw, In the early days of Legacy. Lionels back drivable gearbox was still achieved via the traditional worm and axle gear setup.

They started using those intermediate gears around 2011.

Maybe the gear reduction helps the Canon perform like a Pittman😉

There have been a few locos in between that have back driveability and no extra gears. I believe the Legacy ESE hudsons and VL Niagra to name a couple.

Hopefully folks will get lucky with these 2 -10-4's

If Lionel just changed the pitch on the worm wheel and worm shaft to make the gearbox back driveable that would be fine. The gearbox would still be rugged. It's those intermediate gears that worry me slightly.

Gearbox or not I'm pretty sure my MTH version I turned into a 5001 class with a rare earth magnet, 6mm ball bearing Pittman motor will drastically out pull the current Lionel version 😉.

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