I'm glad you resolved your problem with some repair because you shouldn't have any problem with double
heading in DC or DCC with a 16 car train plus track cleaner.  I double head like that all the time.  I do have one pair of engines (Stewart AS-616s) that will run 20+ cars fine for about 2 hours and then they will just slow down and quit.  It's a temperature problem...the motor/electronics just crowd all the space such that air cannot circulate naturally.  After a cool down (20 minutes or so) they run just fine again.  I plan to (hah) open up some of the air fan moldings to let a little air circulation occur and maybe solve this (little) problem. 

ok..thanks..so I will "assume" that the number 8 is next to the red wire pin on the plug...

The plug has an "8" adjacent to one corner.  Is that the orange wire connection??

I have an old version (non-spectrum) Pennsy 4-4-0 with very brittle plastic valve guides..and one snapped.  Is there any way I can get the metal guides that I have on my other Bman 4-4-0 and then install in place of the plastic ones?

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A fellow club member has an "old" BMAN diesel with an "Athearn Like Motor" that has two flywheels.  I cannot "twist off" the flywheels as I can easily do on Athearn motors.  We need to take the motor apart to try and tune up this engine.  Does Bachman use an adhesive on their flywheels that I will have to "break" to take off the flywheels? 

I think the motor is unbalanced as it vibrates a bit much for my liking.  So we need to either fix that or try another motor.