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[quote]QUOTE: dingoix, <br />Do you rememeber those photo's I emailed you of some of the loco's that were in my collection cabinet? Some of them that you cannot see, because they are on my layout are P2K's. I have some of the first generation loco's in the IC road, some of the ones in the IC road in 2nd generation. They all run fine with no problems, They are GP7's, Gp9's and GP18's all IC roads. I did not pay more than $50 for any of them. the cheapest I paid for any of them is $23 off ebay for 2 of them, they both had cracked gears. The talk you and I had in an email awhile back about changing out the wheels and gears, and you asked me about it being the same as doing it on one of your BB Athearns, you are right, its the same. <br /> <br />Now on to the gears, P2K's some of them, develop cracked gears, which you can hear it click after it splits. I just got my order from Discount Trains Online. I ordered 6 packs of the Athearn gears DTO #140-60024, there are 6 gears in each pack. The total for the 36 gears was $10.56, I also bought some freight cars for cheap they had on sale to absorb the cost of shipping, which is $6.95. Allot of people make a big deal about the split gears, its a nothing and easy to fix. Two packs of the gears from DTO is about $3.25, enough gears to fix 3, 8 wheel loco's, this is cheap! Shipping the loco off to the factory, cost you more in the long run. I have 12 P2K's now and really like them, I like the BB Athearn to. Look for the sales and deals on the P2K line, the first 2 GP7's I bought came from my LHS for $50 each. Look around there out there, you just got to find the deals on them.[/quote] I can see why most of the P2K's are on the layout. Are the Athearn gears the wheels, axle, bearings ,and everything? I'm going to try to get an IC GP7 or 9 in a month or so. I sure hope the GP7 at trainworld for $39.99 is available in IC.
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