Spares and repairs purchases

On the reviving "dead" motors point, I just revived the motor of a Proteus I got in a job lot. I was actually in the process of swapping it out entirely. Prior to tossing it, I opened up the motor "frame" and gave the motor itself a couple of hard whacks with the end of the screwdriver (I had already whacked it when it was still installed in the undercarriage to no avail). The final whack got it up and running. And man, did it hum. The old HiT toy's motors in the Proteus/Bertram/Bill/Ben line of trains were really nice. Some of them are grindy, but I think even the grindy ones sound nice.