Broadway Limited Paragon 3 User manual

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Paragon 3 with Rolling Thunder
Operator’s Manual
Paragon 3
with Rolling Thunder
Steam Locomotives
07/13/17
Important Notice:
This product is not recommended for children
under 14 years of age.
Broadway Limited locomotives
manufactured under US Patent No.
7,749,040 and 7,634,411. Other
patents pending.

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Table of Contents:
DC Operation..............................................................................4
DCC Operation ........................................................................ 11
DCC Programming Quick Reference & Tips..................... 24
Throughout the manual we will use “DC” to refer to
operation using a traditional DC power supply and “DCC”
to refer to operation with a NMRA compliant Digital
Command Control system. Almost every operational
feature of this locomotive can be congured to suit your
personal taste by setting conguration variables (CV’s).
Many of these apply to DC and to DCC operation. See
the list of conguration variables in this manual and the
Paragon 3 Technical Reference Manual available at www.
broadway-limited.com for more information.
Rolling Thunder
Your Paragon 3 locomotive is equipped with Broadway
Limited’s new Rolling Thunder transmitter. This system
sends the low frequency sounds to a reciever and sub
woofer that greatly enhance the locomotive’s built in
sound system. The reciever and subwoofer are part
#1698. To use, install the receiver and subwoofer beneath
your layout as described in the receiver manual, then
operate the locomotive as you normally would in DC or
DCC. The model can be operated without the subwoofer
or receiver. The volume of low frequency sound played by
the subwoofer can be adjusted using CV 214. The default
is 128. O is off, 255 is the loudest.
Operation with a DC Power Pack
Your Paragon 3 Steam locomotive is ready-to-run. Simply
place the locomotive on a track powered by any DC
power pack with a variable output up to 16 volts DC. As
you increase the track voltage, the sound system will
begin functioning at around 7 volts DC. If you increase
track power slowly, you will hear the sound of a steam
locomotive starting. As you slowly increase track voltage,
the engine will start to move. There are a number of

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sounds the locomotive will produce automatically to
simulate the sound of a full-size steam locomotive.
If you do not use DCC, the DC Master Analog Control
Module (BLI stk# 1011 or PCM stk# 1001), is required for
activation of the whistle, bell and some other sounds, and
to control the volume. It can also program CV’s without
a DCC system. The DC Master is shown in gure 1,
connected between the power pack and the track.

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Figure 1.

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Manually Activated Sounds
Whistle Plays when the “horn” button on the
DC Master is pressed. The Paragon
3 whistle is highly playable. A
quick press and release plays a
short whistle blast. Holding down
longer and releasing produces a
long whistle blast. Holding the horn
active for a long blast, releasing
quickly and pressing again, then
releasing, plays an alternative
whistle ending. This ending is
unique for each locomotive. There
are 3 whistles, selected by setting
CV224 to 0, 1, or 2. The whistle can
be set to automatically play warning
blasts when the loco starts and
stops by setting CV 227 to 6. Set CV
227 back to 2 to turn off.
Bell The bell turns on when the “bell”
button on the DC Master is pressed.
It turns off when the “bell” button on
the DC Master is pressed a second
time. The interval between bell rings
can be adjusted by setting CV180. A
lower number is faster. Set CV 223
to 1 to select an alternate bell. 0 is
default.
Air Pump Press the “AUX” button on the
DCMaster while the locomotive is
stopped.

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Automatically Activated Sounds
Startup The sound of a steam locomotive
starting is heard when the track
power is turned on.
Shutdown The sound of a steam locomotive
being turned off is heard when track
power is lowered to about 5 volts.
Brake Set Plays automatically when the
locomotive shuts down.
Brake Release Plays automatically when the
locomotive starts up.
Brake Squeal Plays automatically when the
locomotive is slowed quickly.
Steam Chuff The sound of steam chuffs is
automatically played when the
engine moves. The intensity of the
steam chuff is related to how hard
the engine is working. When the
engine is under a heavy load, the
chuff sound will be much sharper,
and the smoke output will increase.
When the load is reduced, the chuff
sound will be softer and the smoke
output reduced.
Randomly Activated Sounds
The following sounds will be heard when the locomotive
is running or sitting at idle. Various other random sounds
may play if appropriate for each locomotive.
Air Pump
Blower
Coal shovel or auger
Injector
Steam Cock
Blow Down
Pop-off Valve

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Volume/Mute
To mute the sounds, press the “Vol” button once. To turn
the sounds back on, press the “Vol” button once. Horn
and bell still work when the other sounds are muted.
Your Paragon 3 locomotive’s sound system has 8 volume
levels that can be set from the DCMaster. At startup, it
is at the loudest setting. To lower the volume, press the
“Vol” button on the DCMaster two times quickly (like
double-clicking a mouse button on a PC). The volume will
decrease 1 level each time you do this. When the lowest
level is reached the volume will start to increase with
subsequent double-clicks of the button until the highest
volume level is reached, at which point the locomotive
brake sound will play to signal maximum volume.
Tip: To make the locomotive always start at a lower
volume, set CV 133 to some number lower than 128. 0 is
off, 128 is max.
Tip: The volume of many sound features can be set
independent of the overall volume by setting CV’s 135
through 158 with the DC Master. See the next section.
Setting Conguration Variables (CV’s) without
DCC
Your Paragon 3 locomotive’s sound system is highly
congurable even without DCC by using the DCMaster.
Most of the locomotive’s functions are controlled by
setting Conguration Variables (CV’s). To change a CV:
1. Place the locomotive on the track with track
power off. Hold down both the “Aux” and Vol”
buttons on the DCMaster while turning track
power on to maximum voltage. The locomotive
will not move. The display on the DCMaster will
read “E01.”
2. Press the bell(-) button or horn(+) button to scroll
past E15, then to the CV numbers which range
from 1-255 (There is no ‘E’ in front of the CV
numbers.) Stop at the one you want to change
and press the “Vol” button.

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3. Use the bell(-) button or horn(+) button to scroll
to the new value, then press “Vol” to accept.
The locomotive will make a ‘beep’ sound to
acknowledge. It will not beep if the CV was
already set to the number entered.
4. Turn off track power to nish programming.
Tip: The locomotive you are setting should be the only DC
Master compatible locomotive on the track. Otherwise all
locomotives on the track will have their CV’s reset.
Changing the function of the AUX button.
The AUX button can be made to do other functions by
changing CV222 with the DC Master. Select the desired
function from the table on pages 17-18 and enter it into
CV222. See page 11 for a listing of the functions and their
descriptions.
Commonly used DC settings are shown below:
# Name Description Usual
values
Factory
Setting
CV8 Master Reset Setting CV8 to 8 resets everything to
factory settings. 8 38
CV131
Sound Unit
Startup
voltage
A lower number causes the sounds
to start at a lower track voltage. 0-255 178
CV132
Sound Unit
Shutdown
voltage
A lower number causes the sounds
to shut down at a lower track
voltage.
0-255 62
CV135 Whistle
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV136 Bell Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV137
Steam
Background
Volume
higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV138 Whistle 2
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV139 Coupler Slack
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV140 Coupler
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV141 Uncouple
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV142 Wheel Flange
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV143 Air Pump
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV144 Blow Down
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV145 Steam Cock
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV146 Brake Set
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV147
Brake
Release
Volume
higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV148 Pop Off Valve
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV149 Blower
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV150 Dynamo
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128

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CV151 Brake Squeal
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV152
Coal Auger/
Shovel
Volume
higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV153 Water Fill
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV154 Water Injector
Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV155 Chuff Volume higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV156
Passenger
/Freight
Volume
higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV157
Maintenance/
Radio comm.
volume
higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV158
City/Farm/
Industrial/
Lumber
Volume
higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV180 Bell Ring
Interval
Increasing increases the time
between bell rings 0-255 40 (varies)
CV184 DC Brake
Control
Increase to play the brake sound
more frequently 0-255 20
CV214 Subwoofer
Volume Higher number is louder. 0-255 128
CV222
Analog AUX
Select for
DCMaster
Selects which function is controlled
by the Aux button. see p. 23 5
CV223 Bell Select Selects of of 2 bells. 0,1 0
CV224 Horn Select Selects one of 3 horns 0,1,2 0
CV227
Forward/
Reverse
Warning
Set to 6 to turn on automatic horn
toot when starting. Set to 2 to
turn off.
2,6 2
CV230 DC Easy
Consist
Set consist position as front, middle
or rear locomotive. Rear locomotive
is facing rear. 0=single locomotive
1=front locomotive 2=middle eng.
3=rear locomotive
0-3 0
CV236
Smoke unit
heat level
when moving
Set to higher level to increase smoke
while moving. 0-90 80
Cv237
Smoke unit
heat level
when stopped
Set to higher level to increase smoke
while stopped. 0-50 50
CV245
Enable
Alternate
Horn Ending
16=disable
17=enable 16,17 17
CV248 Start Up
Delay
Delays motor start to let engine start
up sounds nish before moving.
Each number is 0.1 seconds.
0-255 20
CV251
Enhanced DC
Motor Control
Vmax
Voltage at which 100% of track
power is sent to motor. (Must be
greater than Vmin)
0-255 120
CV252
Enhanced DC
Motor Control
Vmin
Track voltage at which motor will
start moving.
A Lower Value = Lower Start Voltage
0-255 92
Consists
Paragon 3 locomotives can be set to run in a DC consist with
each other by setting CV 230 to 1,2, or 3, which designates
the locomotive as front, middle or rear facing rear
locomotive, respectively. The rear loco facing backwards
since railroads commonly run the rear loco in reverse. This
automatically sets the lights, bell and horn to respond
appropriately. To break the consist, simply program zero
into CV230. (To make the rear facing loco forward facing,
Set CV230 to 3, then change CV229 to 1 to enable the
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BLI’s Paragon 3 Locomotives are programmed from the
factory to start-up just like the prototype, utilizing a realistic
motor start-up delay that lets the steam engine starting
sounds nish before the train moves. To minimize this
delay and allow the locomotive to start moving instantly,
decrease CV 248 to a value of 0 using the DC Master (See
Page 6 of this manual).
Paragon 3 locomotives start moving at a higher track
voltage than non-sound locomotives. This is done to allow
the sound system to start working before the locomotives
moves. As a result, it is difcult to consist a sound
locomotive with a non sound locomotive in DC operation.
DCC Operation
Paragon 3 Locomotives come equipped with an integral
DCC decoder. It automatically detects if you are using a
DCC system and responds appropriately.
FACTORY DEFAULT ADDRESS = 3.
To Reset, set CV8 = 8.
When programming on the main line in Operations Mode,
the locomotive will beep to indicate when a CV is changed.
It will not beep if the same number is programmed into a
CV. It will not beep on the program track.
DCC Programming
To change the engine ID, rst, make sure you can run
the locomotive as engine #3 and blow the horn. Then,
reprogram the engine ID on the main track or the program
track following the procedure for your DCC system. (Note:
Lenz systems do not allow changing address on the main
line. Use the program track. See page 24.)
Steam Engine Function Key Denitions
Paragon 3 locomotives have the ability to use dozens of
functions. If your DCC system does not support this many