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Are they using the little motor or the one I just installed in this one?

ogaugeguy posted:

Morning, John,

Great news that you were able to have a larger motor put into your Hogwart's Express engine.

Quite a while ago there were posts here about a joint effort between Hallmark Cards and Lionel called Toymaker Santa Express, an 0-8-0 LionChief rtr starter set. If I recall correctly I believe you said it had the same small motor as the Hogwart's Express locomotive. If that's true, can the same larger motor put into your Hogwart's Express likewise be put into the Toymaker Express engine? Also, do all of Lionel's rtr conventional set 0-8-0 engines, such as the one in the Strasburg Railroad set have that same small engine, and if so, could that engine be retrofitted with the larger motor?

Additionally, how difficult is it is convert a LionChief engine to tmmc so it can have cruise conrtol? (Or would it be simpler to replace a LionChief innards with LionChief Plus innards?

Finally, how can Frank Timko be contacted regarding replacing a small motor with a larger like what he did for your Hogwart'sExpress engine?

 

Some of the locomotives have the larger motor, some use the small motor.  I don't know which models have which.  I know the Series II Polar Express set had the larger motor.

Forget about cruise with LC, go LC+ or just go with ERR and TMCC.

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