I was at a toy show last weekend and picked up an old Atlas/Rivarossi N scale Fairbanks Morse "c" loco.

Long story short, it doesn't run. The motor is toast. All three of the wires from the windings are broke off from the area where the brushes make contact. 

I dont think I can fix the wires so I was going to look for a replacement motor for it.

Who do you guys recommend for a new motor?? Any advise would be helpful.

Brake Line Help

I am trying to detail a Walthers TTX four truck depressed flat car by adding the brake lines using wire.  However, I have been unable to find a diagram or a good enough picture to see where the pipes need to go.  Does any one have any suggestions or diagrams of what this might look like.  The specific car number is QTTX 130556.  I found drawings and a article about them in the July 1994 RMC but the drawings don't seem to match the pictures.  Thanks for any help you could provide.

Some 30 years ago I bought a dozen MDC 26' ore cars (HO).  I did not care about prototypical correctness nor was I discriminating wrt roadname or car color: I bought whatever the LHS had in stock, brown black, silver, blue...  I recently received another dozen of these from a friend who was clearing out his standard-gauge inventory.  I have tuned these up so they roll again (a bit of rust on the axle points is an effective brake).  Now, I'd  like to repaint all 2 dozen and apply new lettering.

I have ordered a Baldwin HO VO-1000 Ph.2 loco from Bowser/Stewart.   After looking closely at the drawings and

prototype photo's of these units, I don't see any air horns.  Did they not have them?