There is no motor in the middle car, in fact the middle car is similar to a regular middle car except it has the infra red receiver dome on the roof with wires running through the coupling to the engine. Actually the one I have does not trigger the Automatic Points at all because there is no activation tab anywhere under any chassis (see picture) Glad you have brought this up because I have been in the process of removing all batteries from my trains not running on the layout and when I opened up this puppy one of the 3 AA's in the engine was just starting to leak so it was saved thank you. And it wasn't running at its best so before I put him away I will take him apart and give him a good what for.
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