I purchased a new Lionel Legacy steam engine—part # 1931120 back in March of this year. It has operated great up until a couple of days ago when it stopped smoking. The cab light started blinking twice, which means the “Smoke Unit 1” is problematic according to my manual (based upon what I’ve read on this forum, a bad fan motor is almost an inevitable occurrence). The whistle steam still works and so that unit is operational, but it is the main smoke fan motor that is no longer working.
I am running the train in command control and I did try to reprogram it per the Programming Guide on Lionel’s website, but that did not correct the problem.
I looked on Lionel’s website under parts and the only parts that come up for my engine are a couple of control boards. Hopefully that means they just haven’t gotten around to posting everything for that engine. I would assume that the same fan motors are used and have been used in other steamers in recent years, but I don’t have a part # so I can’t try to find it elsewhere. I am capable of repairing this myself, but I thought I would send it back to Lionel and let them do it on their dime since it is still under warranty, but it may be months before they can get to it based upon the current state of affairs. Any insight, or does anyone know exactly what fan motor this would take? Thank you.
