Locking Your Locomotive Into A Single Direction - Lionel Keystone Super Freight Owner's Manual

Conventional transformer operations

Locking your locomotive into a single direction

W hen the Command reverse unit switch is in the RUN position, your locomotive sequences
through a repeating pattern of operations: forward, neutral, reverse, neutral, and so on.
To "lock" your locomotive into a single direction (for example, to operate in forward
only), you can deactivate the Command reverse unit's sequencing function. Refer to Figure 7
for the location of the Command reverse unit switch.
1. Use your transformer's DIRECTION button or interruptions in track power to get your
locomotive moving in the desired direction.
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 switch back to the RUN position.
Your locomotive will "reset" to forward after any power interruption lasting five sec-
Note!
onds or longer, regardless of the direction you set.
Smoke
ON/OFF switch
Figure 7. Switch locations
E R S
O F F
R E V
O N
E
O K
O F F
S M
O N
RUN
OFF
ON
12
E
PGM
Command reverse
unit switch