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After 7 long months of slow on off work, my TYCO Milwaukee Road E7 finally rides the rails again! Story behind it was back in January I won it off eBay, it was the perfect listing, In original box which was in good shape, Free shipping, described very poorly and or it was very poorly listed but because of that it made it a perfect listing for me , was in my state of California, and was for only $15 with one day left. Was considering some other things at the time but figured if I bid on this, I'm about 99% sure I'll be getting it, love the Milwaukee Road, love the color orange, love the shine it had on it so I decided, heck I would love to own it! So checked the next day and I owned it! It arrived within a couple days but unfortunately, the engine itself was a wreck. Filthy wheels, and whoever had it last, ran it hard and put it away wet, worse part was that it was rode hard on carpet...Found a lot of carpet fiber throughout the powertorque truck. Before finding all this out I cleaned all the wheels, lubricate the mechanical parts and tried to see if it would work, after it put on a smoke show I knew it would need a truck overhaul, similar to what I did last year with my Spirit of 76 Alco C430. So I took apart the bad front truck, started organizing the replacement parts and progressed gradually. The powertorque truck itself would be replaced along with the PT plate, springs, and brushes, and after today the front wheels to the truck. However I used bad springs and an incorrect style PT plate for that type of truck. So when reassembled it didn't work at all. Causing me to have to take apart the front truck AGAIN. Being I did not wish to sink more time into one engine I left it assembled and moved onto other projects for 5 months. Finally got back to it last month when I decided to take it apart and redo it properly having gathered all the parts I needed. Yesterday I soldered on the proper replacement PT plate and I spent this morning, installing the new springs, the replacement brushes, and screwing down the PT plate. Put it on the tracks and was so relieved to see it run again! However because the wheels it had on it's front truck were missing the traction tires, it wasn't running 100% so I replaced the front trucks wheels with ones that had the traction tires and now the E7 works like a charm! This is the 3rd ground up truck rebuild I've done to a TYCO engine and when done properly they always work like a charm when finished! Really glad this unique engine is finished and operating once more! Got me 6 AHM Milwaukee Road coaches for it to pull once I get couplers for those. Didn't exactly document the truck rebuild like I did with the C430 but I have some general shots. main listing photo shortly after being taken apart here is the replacement truck on the left, and the old one on the right. Here's the beaut out on a test run with my Milwaukee Road observation car! out on the curve Originally posted by SCVR66 - September 01 2013 :  9:14:09 PM