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Most (not all) earlier brass with open frame motors had a very simple drive train with a worm gear soldered directly to the OFM motor shaft, directly driving a nylon or delron plastic gear mounted on a driver axle. The only practical way to re-motor these is to also re-gear them - quite doable but not for the faint of heart and requiring investment in a gear puller and a quarterer. Having given that caution, in my experience re-motoring is usually the only practical way to convert an old-style OFM brass model to DCC.
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