4-6-2 union pacific engine

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i have a 4-6-2 union pacific engine with a loose wire that is connected to motor.  Would anyone know where that wire hooks up to provide power and make it run???  It is sticking out the back of the engine where the coal car connects, but placing it on that connection doesn't work.  I assume there is a screw somewhere that makes a connection and enable train to move???

[Randall_Roberts]

From what you've said it sounds like it should go to the wheels possibly on one side of the tender (what you call a coal car). Without knowing the manufacturer and scale it's hard to tell exactly what the pickup mechanism is and how it connects. If you could post pictures that would be some help.

[xdford]

Sight Unseen from Australia, it sounds like a Mantua Engine (Model Power engines are mostly self contained). The wire should be connected to the "coal car"-as-you-call-it/"tender"-to-me by a screw that holds the drawbar (piece of material that joins tender to engine onto the tender.

Turn your engine upside down, place the connecting drawbar over a spigot with a screw thread in to centre, find the retaining screw and place it in the thread. Wrap the wire around CLOCKWISE around the thread and tighten the screw. See if it works and if you are not sure, email me off list and I will take a photo of my own and resend it!

Regards

 

Trevor