@Landsteiner posted:Strange that both motors were burned out. Makes one wonder what happened to this loco, no? These motors, as others have mentioned, are ubiquitous in hobby products. I've seen many of them in airplanes and other R/C toys.
$50 R/C toys at Walmart maybe, but if you spend $399.00 on an hobby shop grade R/C toy you get better motor (s)
You cannot build a product that some consumer won't manage to destroy, for one thing
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This is true, but this is by far one of Lionels worst/cheapest efforts at a "durable" product. There are plenty of examples of their better efforts.
Its hard to believe, but at some point. A poorly made product, just "might" actually be Lionels fault.
