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Vern, beautiful set, thanks for putting up the photos of the whole ABA F7's. I have two SF F3 sets, one AA Warbonnet #18 from 2004 and one ABA Warbonnet #19 from 2005. Beautiful sets both, but I have two complaints about these decade 2000 units: 1) If you have ever taken the body off the powered unit the wiring is a nightmare!! 2) On the powered units the motor/truck assembly has to be removed to change the rubber tires because the screws for the side frames are on top of the truck! Lucky you, your 2007 model the side frame screws are on the bottom of the truck!

On the 2004 AA powered unit I had to replace the DCDS board, and while I was in there I replaced the stock sound board, as it had the standard diesel sound and not the F3. I replaced it with ERR F3 sound board. Now it has that F3 growl/whine. Runs great!

My pleasure, Scott. The #s 18 & 19 are the Fs sets I had before getting the F7s. I know what you mean about the F7 wiring though. Awhile back I had to have the MARS light replaced on the powered F7A. So while my guy (Jim Sandman, the Authorized Lionel service tech up in Ogden), worked on it, he sent me a photo of the messed up wiring inside which was  scraped and frayed. So I had him replace the wiring and have never had any trouble since.

Thanks and happy trainin'.

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