Tire-Traction™
Your locomotive is equipped with
Tire-Traction. This means that
two of the drive wheels are fitted with
rubber traction tires to enhance
tractive effort so your locomotive can
pull many cars at once.
Lionel locomotives with Tire-
Traction grip the trac , enabling them
to pull heavy loads at higher speeds.
Lionel has provided an extra set of
traction tires to replace the installed
traction tires if they wear out. Simply
unscrew the drive rod nut from the
wheel and slip off the old traction tire
and remove it from under the drive
rod. Place the new one on the wheel in
the reverse of this step and tighten the
drive rod nut bac up and your ready
to pull that long freight bac to the
yard.
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Transformer operations
Using your tenders Electrocoupler in the non-Command environment
The rear of your Lionel locomotive’s
tender is equipped with an
Electrocoupler, when in the non-
Command environment, you must first
couple a piece of rolling stoc equipped
with Lionel magnetic couplers directly
to your tender. The magnetic coupler on
the rolling stoc will then react to the
magnetic field generated by a Lionel
remote-control trac section (available
separately). Place your rolling stoc ’s
coupler “trigger disc” over the central
coil of a remote-control trac section and
press uncouple on the controller. The
magnetic field pulls the disc downward,
and the coupler opens.
Your locomotive’s tender mounted
Electrocoupler will NOT open manually
or by using a remote-control track section
Magnetic coupler on the rolling
stoc coupled to your tender
Note!
Remote-control trac section
Adding fluid to your Locomotive’s smoke generator
Your Locomotive is equipped with a
smo e generator that produces
safe, clean white smo e during opera-
tion.
The smo e generator requires the
periodic addition of Lionel smo e fluid
in order to function. Pierce the tube end
with a pin, then add four to eight drops
of fluid directly into the Locomotive’s
stac . Smo e production will com-
mence momentarily, faster if you run
your Locomotive at speed. When
smo e production wanes, add more
fluid (four to eight drops).
If you prefer to have a smoke free loco-
motive, there is a switch located on the
bottom of the engine under the cab
mar ed SMOKE ON OFF (see page 5
for location). Move the switch to off
and your locomotive will stop smo -
ing. (Without a prescription or hypno-
sis.)
An idle locomotive will not smo e;
press AUX1 and 9 (press for a maxi-
mum of 10 seconds) to engage the
smo e generator at idle/in neutral.
When the smo e unit is on always
eep a small amount of smo e fluid in
the Locomotive’s smo e generator; the
generator’s element can become dam-
aged if operated without fluid. Smo e
production is greater at higher volt-
ages and when the Locomotive is
pulling a heavy load or long consist.
