Locking Your Locomotive Into A Single Direction - Lionel Amtrak Acela Owner's Manual

Conventional transformer operations
Locking your powered 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 powered 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 3 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 PROG position. This switch is located under
the roof-top hatch on the powered locomotive. At this point, the locomotive is "locked" into
your chosen direction.
To restore the forward-neutral-reverse sequence, turn off track power and slide the
Command reverse unit switch back to the RUN position.
2026 Powered Unit
2029 Non-Powered Unit
Figure 3. Locomotive switch locations
Command reverse unit switch
Odyssey switch
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Pantograph control
Cantenary 3rd Rail
power
power
Lock Run
Down Run
SS RS
Pantograph control
Cantenary 3rd Rail
power
power
Lock Run
Down Run
SS RS
Volume
control knob
Volume
control knob