Lionel Hudson Jr. User manual

Hudson Jr.
Steam Locomotive
Owner’s Manual
SignalSounds/Conventional RailSounds
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Table of Contents
Transformer operations
Running your locomotive with a Lionel transformer 3
Installing the Lionel no. 610-5906-001 sound activation button 4
Your locomotive’s 103-1 reverse unit operation 5
Using your locomotive’s magnetic coupler 6
Experiencing the range of your locomotive’s Signalsounds 6
Tire-Traction™ 6
Operating your SignalSounds™/Conventional RailSounds™ locomotive
Experiencing the SignalSounds/Conventional Railsounds system 7
Enhanced TowerCom™ 8
Automatic CrewTalk™ 8
Train Brakes 8
Wheel Flange Squeal 8
Notes on Railsounds™ 8
Maintaining and servicing your locomotive
Adding fluid to your locomotives smoke generator 9
Replacing your locomotive’s lamps 10
Lubricating your locomotive 11
Lionel Service 12
Congratulations!
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• Powerful flywheel equipped can
motor
• Die-cast cab
• SignalSounds horn and bell
• Lionel electronic reversing unit
• Die-cast magnetic coupler (rear of
tender)
• Smoke generator that produces clean,
safe, and realistic smoke
• Brilliant headlight
Features found on both locomotives
You purchased a tough, durable leg- endary locomotive—the Lionel Hudson
Jr. steam locomotive. From the crisp die-cast
detail and the authentic decoration outside
to the advanced technology and brute power
within the boiler, your steam locomotive is
ready for duty on your model railroad.
Experience the superiority of today’s Lionel.

Transformer operations
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Note!
Move ‘em out!
Place your steam locomotive on Lionel or
Lionel-compatible O gauge track.
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Running your steam locomotive with a Lionel transformer
Power up your steam locomotive with your transformer.
•Your locomotive is designed to operate on 8-16 volts alternating
current. Virtually all Lionel and Lionel-compatible alternating-current trans-
formers are suitable.
•Do not power your locomotive with direct current (DC). Damage to
sensitive electronic components may occur.
•When you first power up your track, your locomotive’s headlights will
illuminate. At this point, the locomotive is in neutral. When your train is first
powered up, the default state will be neutral and the default direction is forward.
This means whenever you power up your engine the engine will remain in neu-
tral, and when the power is removed and again applied, the train will move for-
ward. This condition holds true if the engine is being powered up for the first time
or if the engine has been powered down longer than five seconds.
• Get your locomotive moving. Press the DIR button on your CAB-1 remote or
Lionel transformer. This sequences the Lionel 103-1 reverse unit to the next oper-
ating state. The 103-1 unit alternates between three states: forward, neutral, and
reverse.
• 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, cut track power.
• See page 5 for information on locking your locomotive in a single
operating state
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Add smoke fluid to the engine or switch the smoke genera-
tor off.
• See page 9 for more information.
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Installing the Lionel sound activation button
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LIONEL
SOUND
ACTIVATION
BUTTON
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LIONEL
SOUND
ACTIVATION
BUTTON
LIONEL
SOUND
ACTIVATION
BUTTON
For AC transformers with a horn/whistle button
For AC transformers lacking a horn/whistle button
Attach to ground terminal
Attach to power terminal
Black wire
Red wire
Lionel no. 610-5906-001
sound activation button for
activating the bell
To your transformer
Lionel no.
610-5906-001
sound activation
button for
whistle
Lionel no. 610-5906-001
sound activation button
for bell
Black wire
Red wire
Red wire
Attach to
ground terminal
Attach to
power terminal
To your transformer
The no. 610-5906-001 button works with any Lionel AC transformer except no.
6-4690 Type MW. Transformers made by other manufacturers may not be
compatible with Signalsounds.
Note!
To operate the bell and whistle sounds when operating your steam locomotive
with conventional transformers, you’ll need to
install the Lionel no. 610-5906-001 sound
activation button (available separately).
Connect the button(s) as shown below.
Customer’s wire
Note! All track power must feed
through “Sound
Activation Button”
Do not bypass button
Transformer operations

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Transformer operations
Your locomotive’s 103-1 Reverse unit
The reverse unit inside your Lionel loco- motive is an electronic device that acts
like the transmission in your car. When you
apply power to the track, the locomotive
moves in the direction specified by the
reverse unit—or it
sits in neutral,
awaiting another
power interruption.
Power interrup-
tions are the signal
that tells the
reverse unit to
sequence to the
next operational
state.
To interrupt
power and
sequence the loco-
motive’s reverse
unit, press the
direction control button or turn the throttle
to the OFF position and ON again. The
reverse unit alternates between three states:
forward, neutral, and reverse.
Also, the locomotive can be “locked” into a
certain mode of operation by throwing the
switch located on the underside of the frame
(see illustration above). When the switch is
thrown to the OFF position, the locomotive
will be locked in the next mode of operation
in the sequence. For instance, if the locomo-
tive is moving forward, then is stopped and
the switch is thrown back, the locomotive
will be “locked” in neutral. If the switch is
thrown back while the locomotive is under
power, the locomotive will remain in the
mode it was in when the switch was thrown.
The controller direction control will then
have no affect on the direction of the loco-
motive.
Additionally, this reverse unit has a
“power-up reset” feature, which means that
should the locomotive sit without power for a
short period of time,
the reverse unit will
automatically reset
and start in the for-
ward direction when
the transformer is
turned on or “pow-
ered up,” regardless
of the locking switch
position. If the lock-
ing switch is in the
Off position, the loco-
motive will start in
the forward direction
and be “locked”
there.
Pressing the whistle button on your con-
troller will produce a realistic whistle sound
from the tender. If the whistle fails to oper-
ate, remove the wires from the lockon and
reinsert each one into the opposite clip to
reverse polarity.
If your controller doesn’t have a whistle
button, you may use the Lionel Sound
Activation Button #10-5906-001, available
separately.
Direction
control
button
Whistle control button
With your 103-1 reversing unit, positioning the
switch in the ON position locks your engine into its
last moving direction. Positioning the switch in the
OFF position resumes normal sequencing operation.
OFF ON Reverse
unit lockout
Smoke on/off
switch
OFF ON
Rear of locomotive

Transformer operations
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The rear of your Lionel locomotive’s ten- der is equipped with an operating mag-
netic knuckle cou-
pler, a revolutionary
design first intro-
duced by Lionel in
1945.
Lionel magnetic
couplers react to the
magnetic field gener-
ated by a Lionel
remote-control track
section (available
separately).
Place your lo-
comotive’s coupler
trigger disc over the
central coil of a remote-control track section
and press Uncouple on the controller. The
magnetic field pulls the disc downward, and
the knuckle opens. One operating
technique favored by
Lionel railroaders is
the “moving uncou-
ple.” Press the
Uncouple button as
the locomotive passes
over a remote-control
section. The magnetic
field will open the
coupler; the consist
remains behind as
the locomotive moves
on. But be careful—
the speed of a newly
uncoupled and moving locomotive can
increase dramatically.
Position your locomotive’s trigger disc over the
remote-control section, then press “uncouple.”
The coupler opens.
With SignalSounds, you experience the sounds of real railroading like never
before. Simply put, it delivers realistic, and
authentic sounds to your model railroad.
Turn the volume set screw clockwise or
counter clockwise to adjust sound output.
(located on the bottom/side of the tender
frame in the middle.
• Steam Whistle. Press whistle to pro-
duce an authentic steam whistle blast.
• Mechanical bell. Press BELL on your
CAB-1 or transformer to begin the effect;
again to discontinue.
Experiencing the range of your locomotive’s SignalSounds system
Using your locomotive’s magnetic coupler
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 loco-
motive can pull many cars at once.
Lionel locomotives with Tire-Traction
grip the track, enabling them to pull heavy
loads at higher speeds.
To replace the traction tires, 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 back up. You’re
ready to pull that long freight back to the
yard.

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With SignalSounds and Conventional RailSounds, you experience the sounds
of real railroading like never before. Simply
put, it’s the most sophisticated, authentic
model railroad sound system in the world.
The following is available in both
SignalSound and Conventional
RailSound versions
• MultiWhistle™. Different whistles
every time—a RailSounds exclusive.
• Authentic bell. Press BELL on your
CAB-1 or transformer to begin the effect,
again to discontinue. Even the final “hit”
is muted like the real thing.
The following is only available in
Conventional RailSound versions
• Variable chuff rate. Your
Locomotive’s speed determines the steam
chuff rate.
• Shutdown sequence. No other model
railroad sound system shuts down like
RailSounds. Turn off track power, and
after the air-release reset sound, you have
two seconds to restart your Locomotive. If
you’re done with operations, RailSounds
will commence with an authentic steam
locomotive shutdown sequence about two
seconds after the air-release reset occurs.
Turn to page 8 for additional sounds
available with Conventional RailSounds.
NOTE: Battery must be installed for shut-
down sequence. See below.
• Enhanced TowerCom. Receive and
respond to messages from the yard master.
• Automatic Crewtalk. Listen to ran-
dom call and response messages.
• Train Brakes. Authentic brake sounds
during quick stops.
• Wheel Flange. Squeal. Authentic wheel
flange squeal when passing through tight
curves.
Experiencing the SignalSounds/Conventional Railsounds system
Operating your SignalSounds™/
Conventional RailSounds™
Front End
Snap in
Slide in
Remove Screw

Operating your Conventional RailSounds™
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Enhanced TowerCom™
Enhanced “TowerCom” is a two part mes- sage involving a “stand-by” or “clear for
departure” announcement from the dis-
patcher followed by an acknowledgement
from the engineer. There are several mes-
sages and each time TowerCom is triggered,
a random call/response will be played.
The TowerCom™ message, selected ran-
domly for play-back, is triggered by a short
horn blast only when the train is stopped. A
long horn blast will not trigger the effect,
and it is disabled when the engine is in
motion.
If the trigger (i.e., short horn blast)
occurs within 15 seconds of the train stop-
ping, a “stand by” message is played; if the
trigger occurs more than 15 seconds after the
train has stopped, a “clear for departure”
message is played. The 15-second interval is
marked by the first instance of crewtalk after
the engine stops.
Example
• User brings the engine to a stop and sounds a
short horn blast.
• TowerCom message says, “Please stand by”
• User waits until first crewtalk plays, user
sounds another short horn blast.
• TowerCom message says “You are clear for
departure”
Notes on Railsounds
• The volume control is located on the side
of the tender frame in the middle. Turn
the volume set screw clockwise or counter
clockwise to adjust the volume.
• Listen for incidental locomotive sounds
during Railsounds operation. They’re
automatic and, of course, authentic.
• The 9-volt alkaline battery you installed
ensures continuous steam locomotive
sounds. (Note: use Alkaline batteries
only.)
• Longer track-power interruptions
(including locomotive derailments)
cause Railsounds to shut down after
about 7 seconds.
Automatic CrewTalk™
There are “call” messages and “response” messages that are selected randomly for
playback. The crewtalk messages are trig-
gered at random intervals, from 30 seconds
to 3 minutes, only when the train is stopped.
Train Brakes
For the ultimate in realism, the sound of squealing train brakes can be played dur-
ing heavy stops. The engine must be moving
at a medium speed then slowed quickly to
trigger the sounds. With practice, you will be
able to control the sound at any time.
Wheel Flange Squeal
The brake sounds may also be used to simu- late the sound of wheel flange squeal when
traveling through tight curves. Depending on
your track layout, this sound may occasionally
play when entering a curve. You may also tirg-
ger this sound by quickly moving the power
supply control knob toward off, then quickly
moving it back to its original setting. Do not
move it completely to off or the engine’s E-unit
will shift to neutral.

Maintaining your locomotive
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Adding fluid to your Locomotive’s smoke generator
Your Locomotive is equipped with a smoke generator that produces safe,
clean white smoke during operation.
The smoke generator requires the periodic
addition of Lionel smoke 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 stack. Smoke production
will commence momentarily, faster if you
run your Locomotive at speed. When smoke
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 bot-
tom of the engine under the cab (see page 11
for location). Move the switch to off and your
locomotive will stop smoking.
When the smoke unit is on Always keep a
small amount of smoke fluid in the
Locomotive’s smoke generator; the genera-
tor’s element can become damaged if operat-
ed without fluid. Smoke production is greater
at higher voltages and when the Locomotive
is pulling a heavy load or long consist.

Maintaining your locomotive
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Your steam locomotive’s headlight is illu- minated by one lamp. During the course
of normal operation, the lamp may require
replacement.
Carefully remove the three cab screws
(see page 11 for location). Set the engine on
its side and carefully pull the front of the
frame away from the cab. Be careful you do
not bend the draw bar that connects the
engine to the tender. The lamp (600-2314-
300) is available from your Authorized
Lionel Service Center or Lionel Service. See
the Lionel Service section on page 12 for
more information. Remove the expired lamp
by unscrewing it, and replace it with a fresh
bulb. Reinstall the cab and the three screws
taking care to not pinch any wires during
reassembly.
Check to be sure the smoke stack is
aligned with the smoke generator.
Replacing your steam locomotive’s lamps
Lamp
Part No. 600-2314-300