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    Advice on paint matching Rivarossi Empire State streamliner

    Hello I just recently purchased an old Rivarossi Empire State streamliner. It was sold with some gluing error above the front headlight I managed to clean it up and wanted to paint the loco. The paint work is pretty good across the whole body and my preference is to maintain the original paint...
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    Repairing a Life Like E8 Cow Catcher

    Thank you so much for the post, I live in Australia the term cow catcher was used in the early days it may well have changed since but pilot sounds much friendlier I can assure you. I really appreciate the suggestion I will certainly follow this up as having spares on hand will always be handy.
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    Repairing a Life Like E8 Cow Catcher

    Thanks for the post. You know a 3D printer may not be a bad investment. As it happens I own a few E8s and noticed I had a spare guard for some reason in one of the boxes. That was a stroke of luck. I will try and repair the old one now that emergency is over and I have a replacement. Thanks for...
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    Repairing a Life Like E8 Cow Catcher

    Hi All I just finishing converting a Life Like E8 Santa Fe Ho loco to DCC and I accidentally dropped the loco much to my disappointment. As a result I chipped the cow catcher (see image below). I don't know where the missing piece is unfortunately. Does anyone know a fix for this or where to...
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    High costs

    Hi Frank, I returned to MRR after a 20 year absence and found the same issue. Don't get me wrong the products available at the higher end price point are exceptional. I do run a DCC layout now but I intially built a DC layout. In order for me to get immediate satisfaction at my price point...
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    Life Like EMD E7 replacement parts

    Thanks for the post, I did contact Walthers but they don't have old stock of Life Like spares. I was advised that when Walthers took charge of the company they were given what ever spares were available at the time of purchase, but they have been sold out a long time ago.
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    Life Like EMD E7 replacement parts

    Thank you for your response. I will have a look, its actually a great website never visited before. Regards Chef
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    Life Like EMD E7 replacement parts

    Thanks for the post did Walthers take over?
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    Life Like EMD E7 replacement parts

    Good evening I have an Issue with one of my Life Like E7 Santa Fe locos. I lost one of the number plates that are located to the right and left of the nose and was wondering whether replacements were available? Thanks in advance Chef
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    I have a strange issue with of my locos.

    No not that I can tell. The P2000 shells come off pretty easy I couldn't see anything of that description.
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    I have a strange issue with of my locos.

    It's code 100 HO scale by Peco. The first layout I built, I had no idea that there were different gauges. So, it may have been the case that I had a mix and match track layout previously. It was so long ago (15 years plus) I can't remember for certain. I know this time around I planned more...
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    I have a strange issue with of my locos.

    Thats great, thanks for the info. its been very helpful.
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    I have a strange issue with of my locos.

    Thanks Greg, I will let you know how it goes. I am just in the process of purchasing the parts are the Athearn gears of better quality than the Life Like Proto 2000?
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    I have a strange issue with of my locos.

    Thanks for the post and for the advice. I looked at the loco today. I thought I would have a better look. I noticed the rear wheel of both bogies under the loco where slightly wider than the ones at the front. I decided to squeeze them together. After doing so it felt like I pushed them back in...
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    I have a strange issue with of my locos.

    Thanks for the post. I just had a chance to check the loco as you advised. I found that the front bogie rear wheel turned very easy for about a half turn. Would you say the gear is cracked? If so is it a difficult job replacing the gear?



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