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My LHS had a post holiday/blizzard sale yesterday. I purchased a Bachmann "Old time 4-4-0" for next years Christmas layout.I got it home and decided to give it a test run. I put 3 small passenger car, a small hopper, cattle car and caboose together for the test run. After about 20mins. it started to slip on the rail so I though maybe the Loco may have been over lub'ed, so I though I'd wipe it down and see what happened. I could see a lot of oil on the bottom of the tender. So I started to take it apart to clean it up a little. This is my first small loco so I was surprised to find there is no motor in the loco but it's in the tender and coupled to the drive wheels in the loco by a drive shaft.While I had the loco apart I found that one of the drive rods was hanging down (luckly I found the tiny screw that holds the rod to the wheel.) To make the story short the hole for the tiny screw is stripped out. Guess I'll have to something about that, but not sure what.Another case of Bachmann trash.Dewayne
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