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@Secarider  I assume you have an old Lionel HO Steam engine?  Can you show me how it is wired.  I know mine is wrong.

I had an epiphany moment.  The wire that came loose was shorting out somehow.  The reason the engine is working is because I just was wiring the leads (that went to the whistling tender) that are connected to each side of the motor.  By doing that I am bypassing how it works in reality.  It does not work on the track.  Still shorts out.  So I would like to rewire it.

Can someone show me or explain to me how this is supposed to be wired?  Attached are pics how it is currently wired.

On the front of the engine there are 3 wires...one to the light, and 2 to the smokestack--2 of those wires go to the wheel pickups--1 goes to the right side of the motor.  The left side of the motor came loose, but was connected to the pickups junction. I am assuming, the wire without insulation is the ground wire...it goes from the right side of the motor to the smokestack.  Does that all seem correct? 

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