I took out my LGB #25251 D&RGW Forney yesterday to run on my track powered indoor track. It made it around the track about 5 times and then suddenly stopped running. The lights come on when power is applied but no movement. This Forney I purchased brand new many years ago from Eastside Trains here in the Seattle area and it never ran right. I posted about this Forney a number of years ago on this forum as i needed to replace the brushes (which didn’t make any difference). I brought this loco to TOC later last year or early this year, can’t remember and he worked his magic on it and it ran perfectly after. I contacted Dave earlier this week to see if he could take a look at it and he replied that he is not doing very well and would let me know. Still waiting to hear back. I looked on Train Li to see if I could find an exploded diagram for this loco but they don’t have one.
I then took out one of my other LGB Forneys (#20251 SANDY RVER & RANGELEY LAKES) which has always run really great. It was running very erratically jerking and stopping. I put it on the bench and discovered that only the front 2 drivers and the pickup skids were getting power. The rear 2 drivers on the motor block do nothing when I apply power to those drivers. Also, when I apply power to the rear wheels of the tender that have the brushes nothing happens. I found an exploded diagram on Train Li for this particular loco but it’s pretty much greek to me.