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Locomotive getting Hot.
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When my dad and I started building out first layout in about 20 years, I got some old AHM locos out of their boxes that I last used when I was a young tike back in the 80's... <br />My son was running the DC throttle on this one particular C&NW diesel. He jacked the throttle up about 1/2 way to get it started rolling, and but the time that loco had run about 8 linear feet of track, it was smoking like crazy. We stopped the loco and took it off the track, looked it over and didn't lube it or anything, put it back on and ran it. All of the sudden it started running real nice - must have just been "locked up" a bit from sitting so long. We lubed it up and it is now the fastest loco in our fleet, by a bunch. Never gets hot, barely warm... I burned out a lightbuld in it and popped the shell off of it after a fairly long run-time, some at very high speed. Motor was just slightly warm to the touch.
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