Feeling fairly pleased with myself tonight. My Farish (not Bachman) 159 has been in bad shape for some time, poor running and noisy with lots of cliking sounds. I have suspected split gears, as Farish was (?) prone too. Tonight I took the wheel sets off and took apart the gear stacks and to my surprise found not one but two split gears; one on each gear stack. So off to the parts bin (you never know what will come in handy) found two wheels sets with correct gears on them. Reasembled the gear stacks with new gears put the power car back together and onto the tracks. Blue sparks and a puff of smoke later it all came to a dramatic end.

Or so I thought.

The springs that take power from the wheels to the motor had shorted through, new wire and solder later it runs a treat. Took the additional step of cutting the big coupling off the outer ends and taking the skirting off. After cutting the coupler connection the skirting was reattached to the body not the bogie. Now when the bogies turn the lower skirt stays in place, it looks so much. Tomorrow will do some weathering and post some pictures.