Nice work on the project. I to am from IL. north central . Been there and done this with thanks to 8N.
What I did was get two 200 series engine on the cheap. You will need the frames and motors. I have a PW 218 A with E-unit with a 8020 shell, powering a 8021 B unit with two 200 series motors. I measured the B unit and cut the back half's off both A-units to fit the B unit. Welded then together and this held both motors and also fit the B unit shell as a stock unit would. I tied all of them to the 218 frame with the 8020 shell's E unit with a connector wire I got on line. I would post pictures but I will need to retake them because they got trashed when my PC died I did post pictures on the forum over on the toy train site and you could go there and look or give me a PM and some time and I can re-shot the pictures and show you how I did it. . So anyway I have a A-B set with three pulmor motors, A hog of a pulling dog. All running off the A unit E-unit.
