I have several post-war locos that I have converted from Santa Fe (2343) to other liveries. All are dual pullman horizontal motors. Yesterday, I started smelling a burning smell coming from my media room, where my dual shelf track is. I had a dual motor engine running, pulling (seemed to be effortlessly) a string of freight cars, maybe 17. I powered everything off and today when I opened the engine up, both motor casings have shown signs of overheating (melting) and the wiring is a mess. The motors still turn. I "think" they are salvageable for use as a daily runner, but not to sell. Is there any way to add a thermal cutoff or a thermal auto-resettable breaker to the locomotive to prevent this from happening again. It had been running for quite some time before it began to stink up the room.
Any thoughts on what I might could add to prevent overheating like this? By the way, it did not overheat to the point of deforming the shell. That is still in pristine condition. Just both motors.
Thoughts anyone?
Scott
