Activating Crewtalk And Towercom Announcements; Locking Your Locomotive Into A Single Direction - Lionel VISION 4-6-6-4 Challenger Owner's Manual

Conventional transformer operations
Activating the CrewTalk dialog and TowerCom announcements
I
n the conventional environment, CrewTalk dialog and TowerCom announcements are
triggered by short whistle blasts and vary with the state of the locomotive.
• If the locomotive has been stopped for less than 15 seconds, a short whistle blast
triggers a "please standby" dialog (a 9V battery is required for this sequence).
• If the locomotive has been stopped for longer than 15 seconds, a short whistle
blast triggers a "cleared outbound" dialog.
• If the locomotive is moving, a short whistle blast triggers an "all clear ahead"
dialog.

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.
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. See Figure 2 on page 8 for the
location of this switch.
To restore the forward-neutral-reverse sequence, just slide the Command reverse
unit switch back to the RUN position.
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