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Hey folks. First time poster. I just received an HO scale trolley after my father’s passing. It’s a Pacific Electric livery streamline HO gauge. The only manufacturer mark is the brass plate on the undercarriage stamped JAPAN. It was working reasonably well but I tried to improve it by opening up the gearbox to clean it. Unfortunately the gears and bushings popped out when I did that and I cannot find all the parts. Looks like I’m missing one brass bushing and two outer bushings for each end of the box. I’ve done a lot of google image searching to try and match the train and gearbox with anything available but so far have turned up no results. I think it was probably purchased in the early 1980s. Does anybody know the manufacturer based on images? Does anybody know if I can find a compatible replacement undercarriage or specific parts to fix the existing gearbox? My goal is to make a small diorama of the PE line on a 3’ shelf around this train in order to honor my father and his love of this particular train system. He grew up in LA County in the 1940s and was nostalgic about it. Thank you!

I remember as a young child watching the little trolley going through the model neighborhood (it was actually my favorite part of the program). Anyway, an interesting take on change. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/daniel-tiger-is-secretly-teaching-kids-to-love-uber/486800/