8
Basic Operation
Throttle
Throttle up the power to your track. Give enough power so that the engine’s headlight
shines brightly. Then put the engine in to motion by either firmly pressing the
Direction button on your transformer or remote once or dropping and advancing to
throttle to put the engine in forward.
Operating Buttons
Use the operation buttons on your transformer as described below.
Horn/Whistle
- To sound the whistle, firmly press the Horn/ Whistle button. The
whistle will sound for as long as you continue to depress the button. It will stop when
you release the button. the whistle has four different endings, depending on whether
you hold the button for less than three seconds, three seconds, four seconds, five
seconds or longer.
Bell
- To sound the bell, firmly press and release the Bell button. To turn the bell off,
press and release the Bell button again. The bell will continue to ring from the time
your turn it on until you press the release the button again to turn it off.
Direction
- Your train is programmed to start in neutral. To put the engine into forward
and then to change the direction of the train or to put it into neutral, firmly press and
release the Direction button on your transformer. Just as you must stop your car
between forward and reverse, this engine will not go directly from forward to reverse;
it goes into neutral between directions. If the train has been moving forward, the first
press of the Direction button will put the train from forward into neutral, the second
press into reverse, the third press back into neutral, and the fourth back into forward.
To prevent accidental high-speed start-ups, this engine is programmed to restart in
neutral each time the track voltage is turned off or 10 seconds or more.
Manual Volume Control
To adjust the volume of all sounds
made by this engine, turn the master
volume control knob located under the
water hatch on the tender deck
clockwise to increase the volume and
counter-clockwise to decrease the
volume.
Proto-Sound 2.0 Volume Adjustment Knob
Premier Shay Steam Locomotive
