Lionel Trains 71-8340-250 - Manual (Page 7)

Conventional transformer operations
Locking your powered locomotives into a single direction
W hen the Command reverse unit switch is in the RUN position, your locomotives sequence
through a repeating pattern of operations: forward, neutral, reverse, neutral, and so on.
To “lock” your locomotives into a single direction (for example, to operate in forward only),
you can deactivate the Command reverse units’ sequencing function. Refer to Figure 1 for the
location of the Command reverse unit switch on each unit.
If you will be running the locomotives together, perform this procedure on both units
simultaneously.
1. Use your transformer’s DIRECTION button or interruptions in track power to get your
locomotive moving in the desired direction or into neutral.
2. Slow the locomotive down without stopping (reduce the throttle without turning off track
power).
3. Slide the Command reverse unit switch to the PGM position. At this point, the locomotive is
“locked” into your chosen direction.
To restore the forward-neutral-reverse sequence, just slide the Command reverse unit
switches back to the RUN position.
Your locomotives will “reset” to forward after any power interruption lasting five
seconds or longer, regardless of the direction you set.
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SMK NO SMK RUN PGM
SND NO SND ODY NO ODY
Figure 1. Switch locations
Smoke unit switch
(see page 25 for details)
Command reverse
unit switch
RailSounds sound
system switch
(see pages 9-13 for details)
Odyssey system switch
(see pages 14-16 for details)
FRONT
Note!
Note!