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palallin posted:

My 8020 still has the original motor and gears (new brushes), runs like a champ, and has more hours on it than the real one probably did.

MPC's revision of the postwar 200 series motor was one the best things they ever did. I have one MPC Alco, and a few GPs, with this motor, and they run beautifully. Although it's not considered the "better" motor, it's hard to find fault with something that works so well.

I, too, could never understand what was so wrong with plastic gears. At least not plastic idler gears. They are quiet, and I have never had one strip on me. And Lionel Corp used them, too - we have a 2245 Texas Special F3 with a plastic idler gear in the horizontal motor housing. And it, too, works just fine.

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