I had a Lionel # 235 scout engine from the 1960's and the motor went bad in it. A friend of mine gave me an engine with a badly warped shell(I bought a few Lionel items from him as well) and so I found the donor motor for my 235 scout engine. The motor was a newer DC 3 rail Lionel engine from a starter set and I converted the 235 to a 2-4-0 instead of a 2-4-2.
The other project I did was to modify an older 027 switch that was nearly ruined, it's housing was beyond normal repair and no solenoid was in it, most people would have trashed it. I stripped it down to just the tracks and base and then put a DZ-1000 switch motor on it, now I have an 027 switch that has better curve capability as the switch housing is gone from it. This was not hard to do as the 027 switch base throw piece mated up to the DZ-1000 with just one of the switch motor pieces.
Lee Fritz
