Locking Your Locomotive Into A Single Direction - Lionel Canadian Pacific 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 5
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 or into neutral.
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.
Command reverse unit
switch
Smoke unit switch
(see page 29 for details)
Figure 5. Switch locations
RUN
PGM
SMK
NO SMK
ODY
NO ODY
SND
NO SND
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Odyssey System switch
RailSounds sound
system switch