Lionel H16-44 User manual

Lionel H16-44
Die el Locomotive
Owner’ Manual
71-8385-250
3/07

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You purchased a tough, durable locomotive—the H16-44 diesel locomotive built by Lionel. From the crisp detail and expert decoration on the outside to the brute power under the hood,
the Lionel H16-44 is ready for duty on your model railroad. Experience the superiority of today’s
Lionel.
Congratulation !
Features of this locomotive
• Transformer controlled forward, neutral and reverse operation
• Operating diesel horn
• Directional lighting including LED headlights
• Operating marker lights
• Dual operating couplers
• Dual powerful maintenance-free motors with momentum flywheels
• Traction tires
• Fan-driven smoke unit
• Lighted number boards
• Lighted cab interior
• Engineer figures
• Minimum Curve: 0-31
The following Lionel marks may be used throughout this instruction manual and are protected under
law. All rights reserved.
Lione ®, TrainMaster®, Odyssey®, Rai Sounds®, CrewTa k™, TowerCom™, DynaChuff™,
StationSounds™, Pu mor®, E ectroCoup er™, Magne-Traction®, CAB-1®Remote Contro er,
PowerMaster®, Lione ZW®, ZW®, PowerHouse®, TMCC®, Lione vi e™, Lockon®, Wire ess Tether™,
LionMaster®, FatBoy™, American F yer®, TrainSounds™, PowerMax™
The name FasTrack®is used with permission from Pitsco, Inc.

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Table of content
Tran former operation
Running your locomotive with a Lionel transformer 4
Locking your locomotive into a single operational state 5
Sounding your locomotive’s horn 6
Using your locomotive’s magnetic couplers 7
Maintaining and ervicing your locomotive
Adding fluid to your locomotive’s smoke generator 8
Lubricating your locomotive 9
Replacing your locomotive’s LEDs and lamps 10
Replacing the traction tires 10
Notes 11
Limited Warranty/Lionel Service 12

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3Move ‘em out!
Get our locomotive moving. Press the DIRECTION button on your Lionel
transformer. This sequences the reverse unit to the next operating state in the
repeating sequence: forward, neutral, reverse, and neutral.
Adjust track voltage until your locomotive moves at your desired speed. To
increase speed, increase track voltage. To decrease speed, reduce voltage. To stop the
locomotive, turn-off track power.
See page 5 for information on locking our locomotive into a single
operational state.
Place your locomotive on Lionel or Lionel-compatible
O gauge track.
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2Power up your locomotive with your transformer.
Your locomotive is designed to operate on 8-18 volts alternating
current. Virtually all Lionel and Lionel-compatible alternating-current
transformers are suitable.
Do not power our locomotive with direct current (DC). Damage to
sensitive electronic components may occur.
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Running your locomotive with a Lionel transformer
Tran former operation
Caution!

To select a single operational state for your Lionel locomotive (for example, forward only), you can deactivate the reverse unit’s sequencing function with the reverse unit switch.
Get your locomotive moving in the desired direction, then s ow it down without stopping.
Set the reverse unit switch to LOCK. Refer to Figure 1 for the location of the switch. The
locomotive is now “locked” into your chosen direction.
When you no longer want single-direction operation, just slide the switch back to RUN.
Your locomotive’s reverse unit will “reset” to forward after any power interruption
lasting five seconds or longer, regardless of the original locked-out direction.
Locking your locomotive into a single operational state
Tran former operation
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Note!
Figure 1. Switch locations
SND NO SND
NO SMKSMKRUN LOCK
Horn switch
Turn truck
for switches
RUN
LOCK
SMK
NO SMK SND
NO SND
Smoke unit switch
(see page 8 for
etails)
Reverse unit
switch