thanks everyone for your replies. so am i to infer that the power blade should make contact with the 3469 cars truck contact in order to dump?
my power blade seems to be significantly lower than the installed 65500 track which makes me think it was purchased with a o27 blade (no regular o gauge blade in the box (original box) so the power blade appears to be riveted in place how to go about doing this?
does anyone have a link for the original 497 manual, or a source for the proper power blade? will start my search now.
Thanks for the advice!
Dan