Does anyone out there have a Thomas Shawnee Express or Branch line special that they run? Do your e units stick?
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I had experience…long ago…still current on All Nation switchers that is3-rail came with the horizontal Thomas e-unit, sliders and couplers.
Sliders were bad enough…e-units horrible.
You said sticking. Hard to discern what you meant, but you can start out going forward, voltage finally overcomes spring pressure, and WHAM! you’re in neutral.
I just put electronic reversers in mine. Dallee now, but I had a drawer fill of NOS QSI units I used initially.
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Cute video but like all roundy rounds, kinda boring.
Did not realize that the reverse unit in the General Models/All Nation NW2 was also Thomas (ie, like the pickup shoes). I have an incomplete loco, and yeah that reverse is an interesting design choice. I think if it used a solenoid instead of an electromagnet, it would have worked a lot better. Takes too much current to throw the thing promptly!
-El
I fit a set of Lionel rollers to the NW’s and electronic reverser. I do keep the Thomas couplers.
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The Thomas reverser killed most interest in the NW’s.An electronic unit may cost more than the loco did, but well worth it. Critical lube point is oil bottom bearing in vertical motor armature and grease the gears! I have several with shot lower bearings and gears in a box.
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Thank you @Curmudgeon and @El_Fixes_Things for the comments
From the link you posted, “In 1951 Thomas acquired Scale-Craft and Company’s line of ‘O’ gauge cars and moved to a new facility in Shawnee, OK at 1125 E. Independence Street”
I live near Shawnee, OK and still cruise occasionally antique stores there with the faint hope of finding a piece of Thomas rolling stock. And btw, the company’s location while based in Shawnee, 1125 E Independence, is now either a gas station/convenience store or apartment complex, depending on the vagaries of modern day real estate parcels in Shawnee…
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