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Good morning every one, looking for some advice, after a long time sitting on the shelf, i started running my Lionel standard gauge 402 engine with 4 cars, it Runs around the layout fine, but every so often it makes a grinding noise and slows down a little but the lights don`t dim,  i pulled it apart to see if the wheels would lock if i try  turning them by hand but they turned with no binding or anything else happening, there is plenty of grease on the gears so i don`t think that`s a problem, any suggestions and help would be greatly apriciated, thank you all in advance,have a great day, Phil 

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I would put ONE drop of oil on each of the drive axle bearings.  Also on each end of the armature shaft, and the intermediate gear shafts.  Rock the wheels back and forth by hand if possible to work the oil into the bearings.  Hopefully that will get your venerable loco running smoothly again!

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Good morning  Ted S and to everyone who helped,  it turns out i missed putting grease on one gear where three of them work together, i did that, ran it around the layout slowly for ten minutes, now, at higher speeds, she runs like a champ pulling her 4 cars with no trouble at all, with no grinding  noise at all, thank you all so much for your help, Phil 

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