I thought about posting over there but figured there’d be more of a chance here with the tinplate folks like me.
I looked on the MTH site but didn’t find anything close in Ives. They reproduced the Lionel 9E which is close but, I was afraid the Lionel design motor wouldn’t fit. I have a Lionel Super Motor that is a Prewar unit and it wouldn’t fit. The mounting ears I can deal with, the problem was the wheels hitting the mounting brackets. I didn’t want to cut the Ives frame if at all possible.
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