Hi Tom, on the broken side rod, what I could not under stand is that there is a piece missing. It must have gone flying. George, the fiber gear was probably used because they run quieter. Spur gears can be quite noisy. The early F3s were a good example of noisy spur gears. There were a lot of fiber gears used in tinplate trains. It was something GE promoted at one time. I always assumed that the binder was a resin that GE had invented. I worked in a shop years ago that had a very old wheel press with a fiber gear driving the hydraulic pump. It was a 20 horse power motor. Another interesting thing about that press was the power transmission fluid was water. When the pressure was released the water was just drained into the sewer. The cylinders were cast iron with copper sleeves rolled in. Not sure what I am going to do about the bent cross head guides. I was hoping somebody here might have a good suggesting.
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