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Reply to "Smoke Unit on Lionel 247 -- Replace/Repair"

Those Columbias are actually pretty easy to work on.  It just takes a little patience to get the chassis, rear truck, etc., settled inside the shell upon reassembly.  Wiggle everything around, and make sure the smoke unit chimney is lined up with the external smoke stack before tightening any screws.

Also- the 247 came two ways.  One variation has a full, round boiler front like the 250 and 249.  The other has some kind of radiator or air aftercooler molded into the body shell above the pilot deck.  The version with the radiator was continued into the 1970s / MPC era.  So if you're not concerned about keeping it original, I'm pretty sure that a smoke unit from an early MPC-era Columbia (like 8042, 8141, etc.), would be a bolt-in replacement.  Look in "junk boxes" at your next local train meet.  My $.02.

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