Andrew here at the lake house. Tonight, I lubricated/oiled (in railroad terms) a few of my pre-war and post-war steamers from the Lionel and American Flyer loco works (minus my Marx engines), and my two 2-6-4 steamers by Lionel, numbers #2026 and #2018 have this awful grinding noise in their motors.
I had oiled #2018 in its gears and armature with my Labelle #108 lubrication kit at my mother's house (where my second train layout is) last weekend and brought it here as a test subject for this weekend. (The engine works best on tinplate track, based on a seller's recommendation for my pre-war AF 2-4-4 engine at the Royal Oak Farmer's Market.) But still, they still make that dreaded grinding sound, and it bugs me. Any ideas for this 26-year old toy train railroader in train-ing?
