Lionel Trains 71-8340-250 - Manual (Page 5)

Conventional transformer operations
Conventional operations
Y our locomotive set is capable of operating in the conventional environment with nothing
more than a standard Lionel alternating-current (AC) transformer.
In the conventional environment, your locomotives cycle through a repeating pattern of
operations: forward, neutral, reverse, neutral, and so on. To advance to the next operation, press
the DIRECTION button on your transformer. Alternately, you could use the throttle to briefly
turn off track power so that the locomotives advance to the next operation when power is
restored.
Once you cycle the locomotives into forward or reverse, you control your locomotive set’s
speed by varying track voltage with the transformer’s throttle. To increase the speed of the
locomotive, you increase track voltage. To decrease the speed, you decrease track voltage. To
stop the locomotive and to change directions (or to enter neutral), track voltage is turned off or
interrupted.
Use the HORN and BELL buttons on your transformer (or separate buttons if your
transformer is not equipped with these controls) to activate these features.
To experience all of your locomotive set’s features, we recommend operating in the
TrainMaster Command Control environment. With a simple one-wire connection, you can use
the CAB-1 Remote Controller to access all of the functions of your locomotive set. Refer to
pages 17 to 24 to see how to operate your locomotive set in the TrainMaster Command Control
environment.
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