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If you want to be really clever you can build a cassette so you can roll your train on and
off the layout without uncoupling it or trying to pick it up. Your cassette should be four feet
long to fit the entire APT-E. (Canada went metric back in the 1970s but Canadians ignore
that when convenient. You Brits should too. You’re not fooling anyone, you know. We all
know that when you say your baseboard is 600mm x 1200mm you really mean it’s two
by four feet.)
We have included a handful of spare components in case you break some of the articula-
tion parts. But with due care and attention, you won’t need to use them.
2. The nose overhang of the APT-E is
ENORMOUS.
The real APT-E was limited as to what
tracks it could travel on due to its gargantuan schnoz. We have not compromised on proto-
type fidelity in order for the APT-E to go around train set curves. Making the nose “bendy”
or casting it in cheese were not realistic options. Please take great care the first time you
run your APT-E as it may contact tunnel portals, platform edges, lineside details, or oncom-
ing trains. Make sure that your chosen routes for the APT-E during operating sessions and
exhibitions have enough clearance for its stupendous snout.
Your APT-E warranty does not cover contact with foreign objects such as platform edges. None of
the APT-E models has been delivered from the factory with long gouges or scrapes along the sides
at platform height. So please don’t tell us “it came that way.”
IF YOU ARE ALREADY UPSET WITH US...
Despite our warning on the previous page we are sure some of you decided to give this page a
try and are now regretting your decision. Please bear in mind that all the silly parts in this manual
were written by the naughty Canadians at Rapido. It’s us wot dunnit, guv. Honest. Please direct
all complaints to: Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London, SW1. Please do not send any com-
plaints to the NRM, Locomotionmodels.com or the Foreign & Commonwealth Office.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Read This Bit First .............................................................................................................2
Checking and Assembling Your APT-E .................................................................................4
Running In .......................................................................................................................7
Missing or Damaged Parts ................................................................................................7
Opening Up Your APT-E ....................................................................................................8
Operation – DC (Silent) ....................................................................................................8
Installing a Silent DCC Decoder .........................................................................................9
Operation – DC (Sound) ...................................................................................................9
Operation – DCC (Sound) ...............................................................................................10
Train Address ...............................................................................................................10
Turbine Startup Delay ....................................................................................................10
DCC Functions ..............................................................................................................11
Prototypical Operation ...................................................................................................11
Sound Volume Settings ....................................................................................................13
• Factory Reset ...................................................................................................14
• Awesome Slow Speed Thingy ............................................................................14
Limited Lifetime Warranty ...............................................................................................14
Acknowledgements .......................................................................................................15
Summary of Contents for british rail APT-E
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