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My BRAN NEW IHC Premier series consolidation loco recently fell 4 feet (real feet, not Ho scale) off of the edge of the layout and onto some hard concrete. I should have made sure my track nails were lower...but anyway, sometimes when I run it slowly backwards up the slight grade on my layout, it buzzes and grinds. A lot of my older engines do this, and some of the newer ones, but usually the newer ones only do it at areas with bad electrical contact. Did it knock a piece out of alignment when it fell? Or is it just the engine? The noise diminishes somewhat if I spin the flywheel in the cab with my finger before hand, but only for a few seconds. The flywheel is not ot of alignment because I checked it as I ran it and spun it and it's not buzzing or grinding. Any help here would be hot. Thanx.
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