@BillYo414 posted:It seems odd that the motor would get that hot. Are you running it under heavy load or as fast as possible?
I have the engine pulling 7 cars, 2 of them are the metal heavyweight cars. I did not think that that would be an issue because I have the U.P. starter set (1923040) and I have that locomotive pulling 14 cars, none metal heavyweight. I also have it set to slow/medium speed.