Locking Your Locomotive Into A Single Direction; Uncoupling In The Conventional Environment - Lionel GP30 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.
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 1 on page 10 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.
Uncoupling your locomotive in the conventional environment
Y
our locomotive features two ElectroCouplers that are released by remote control at any
point around your layout in the TrainMaster Command Control environment.
In the conventional environment, the ElectroCouplers will not open manually or by using a
Remote-Control Track section. To couple your locomotive in the conventional environment, you
must rely on a piece of rolling stock equipped with a magnetic coupler. Simply release the magnetic
coupler and couple the rolling stock to the locomotive, even if the ElectroCoupler is closed.
Keep in mind that you may still make use of Lionel Remote-Control Track sections (6-65530
for O gauge; 6-12746 and 6-65149 for O-27 gauge; and 6-12020 and 6-12054 for FasTrack layouts)
with the magnetic couplers on the rolling stock. Place the trigger disc on the magnetic coupler over
the central coil on the Remote-Control Track section, then press UNCOUPLE on the track section's
controller. As illustrated in Figure 2, the magnetic field pulls the disc downward, releasing the coupler.
Remote-Control
Track Section
Figure 2. Magnetic coupler operation
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