I am surprised that someone hasn't filed a class action law suite against Bachmann for producing an inferior product that self destructs in an hour and basically has been engineered into a Lemon.  Bachmann has always been known as trash and the Spectrum Line was a giant leap out of that lable, but it was more like a feeble hop.  They should be taken to court and either come up with a satisfactory repair or be made to buy all the defectively produced locomotives back.

I just sent in 4 Bachmann Specturm Climax's and two Spectrum Shays for the second time.  They were returned non repaired as I was told they will continue to self destruct in the gear system within 1 hours of operating.  This does not sound like a satisfactory answer to me to just ignore the problem.  The Bachmann Company in the USA is but a puppet of the Kader Company in China and basically we have an egg roll in our hands.  There is no fix so it is really a defective product, a lemon so to say.  They are all well beyond the 1 year warantee but I thought they had a life time repair capability, I was wrong.  There are no repair parts and even if they did put them in they would still self destruct in an hour or running.  So what's the answer besides leaving them as expensive but good looking scenery?  Can anyone help with where the gears are that supposedly self destruct and does NWSL sell replacement gears for this locomotive.  I can do the repair work if I know it will actually work.