Tire-Traction; Replacing The Traction Tires - Lionel Allegheny Steam Locomotive Owner's Manual

Maintaining and servicing your locomotive

Replacing the traction tires

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our locomotive is equipped with traction tires. This means that some of the drive wheels
are fitted with rubber traction tires to enhance tractive effort so your locomotive can pull
many cars at once.
Lionel has provided extra traction tires to replace the installed traction tires if they ever
wear out. The traction tires are replaced by unscrewing the drive rod screws using the supplied
wrench. See Figure 12. Slip off the old traction tire and remove it from under the drive rod.
Place the new traction tire on the wheel and re-tighten the drive rod screw.
Figure 12. Replacing traction tires
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