Hello, I know this is an old post . The other day I was running one of my 6 month old MTH F-3's the front motor started making a grinding sound. I cut power and took the truck off of the motor, noticing the truck was a little off kilter. I put it back together making sure the two pieces were flush as possible at the mating surfaces. No more than 2 min later as it was going around the layout it stopped dead and emmited a puff of burnt electronic smoke. Dead. I have operated mostly Lionel and Atlas engines and never ever ever had anything like this happen. I found a repair shop to replace the board. I am reading many many stories of PS2 and 3 boards just randomly burning out. With MTH's warranty now from date of manufacture? (Would be nice if this was relayed to customers before purchase) Not purchase? Makes me wish someone would come up with a tmcc/legacy replacement for DCs engines. I'm not keen on $450 paperweights.
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