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NYC Dreyfuss Operating Manual
WHISTLE OPERATION
Your Dreyfuss engine is equipped with a digital recording of an actual steam engine
whistle. The whistle sound can be activated anytime the engine is in forward or reverse by
pressing the whistle button on your transformer. The whistle will continue to blow as long as
the whistle button is depressed. The whistle will not function in Neutral or RESET. It can,
however, be configured to operate in Neutral by accessing and programming a RESET
option. See page 16 for information on whistle programming in the section entitled “Using
RESET To Program ProtoSounds" section of this manual.
BELL OPERATION
Your Dreyfuss engine is equipped with a digital recording of an actual steam engine bell.
The bell can be turned on or off when the engine is in Forward, Neutral or Reverse from
either of two procedures; using a bell activation button, like the Lionel® Railsounds™ No.
5906 Bell Button, or by pressing your transformer whistle button when your engine is in
neutral. The bell will never function continuously in RESET. Once the bell is turned on, it
will continue to ring when the engine is cycled into forward, neutral or reverse until you turn
the bell off by pressing the bell button or by re-entering NEUTRAL and pressing the whistle
button. In fact, because of ProtoSounds™ state-of-the-art design, the microprocessor
remembers its last command. Therefore, unless you turn the bell off before you quit
running your trains, the next time you run the engine, the bell will come on. No matter
whether you come back an hour later or a year later, the bell will begin chiming once the
engine enters one of the three directional states.
TO TURN THE BELL ON OR OFF WITH A BELL BUTTON
To turn the bell on, turn on power to the track and cycle the engine into Forward, Neutral
or Reverse. Press the bell button to activate the bell sounds. To turn off the bell sounds,
press the bell button a second time. If the bell button doesn’t activate the bell, check that it i s
correctly wired up to the track and transformer as indicated in Figure 8 on page 16.
TO TURN THE BELL ON OR OFF WITH A WHISTLE BUTTON
Turn on track power and cycle the engine into the Neutral state. Turn the throttle to 8 volts
or less (any higher voltage will arm the ProtoCoupler) and press the whistle button. The bell
should begin chiming. To turn the bell off, press the whistle button again. If you want to
keep the bell on while running the engine, simply interrupt the power with the transformer
throttle or the transformer directional switch and enter forward or reverse. To turn the bell
off, reenter Neutral, setting the transformer voltage at eight volts or less and press the
whistle button. The bell should stop ringing. Remember if you don’t have a separate bell
button controller, you must be in Neutral to turn the bell on or off.
DCRU MANUAL LOCKOUT
(Engines w/o ProtoSound)
Engines not equipped with ProtoSounds can be manually locked into Forward, Neutral or
Reverse by sliding the lockout switch to the “OFF” position after entering the desired
reverse unit state (See Figure 7 on page 14). To operate the engine in automatic mode
again, simply slide the switch back to the “ON” position. NOTE: Once the unit is locked out
and an hour or more of non-use has past, the reverse unit may cycle into any of the three
states. The on/off switch should be reset to the ON position to regain normal operation.
