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Running your Lionel B40-8 with a Lionel transformer
Place your B40-8 on Lionel or Lionel-
compatible
• Note the pull of Magne-Traction
between your B40-8 and the steel track.
Magnetized wheels and axles increase your pulling power (more than
25 cars on straight and level track) and keep your B40-8 on track while
passing swiftly through curves.
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Power up your B40-8 with your transformer.
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Move ‘em out!
• Get your B40-8 moving.
Press the DIR button on your CAB-1 remote or
Lionel transformer. This sequences the Liontech Command reverse unit
(LCRU) to the next operating state. The LCRU alternates between three
states: forward, neutral, and reverse.
• Adjust track voltage
until your B40-8 moves at your desired speed. To
increase speed, increase track voltage. To decrease speed, reduce volt-
age. To stop the locomotive, cut track power.
• To select a single operating state
(example: forward only), you can deac-
tivate the LCRU’s sequencing function. Get your B40-8 moving in the
desired direction, then slide the reverse unit control switch on the B40-
8’s underside to PROGRAM/LOCK. See page 4 for the switch location
and positioning.
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• Your B40-8 is designed to operate on 7-18 volts alternating current.
Virtually all Lionel and Lionel-compatible alternating-current trans-
formers are suitable; we recommend the TrainMaster Command model
railroad control system.
• Do not power your B40-8 with direct current
(DC). Damage to sensitive
electronic components may occur.
• When you first power up your track, the B40-8 will wait between 3 and 8
seconds as it “listens” for digital language from the TrainMaster
Command Base (available separately). When it’s determined that it’s on
a conventional (non Command) railroad, the B40-8’s headlights will
illuminate and Railsounds will fire up. At this point, the B40-8 is in neu-
tral. (This occurs when placing the B40-8 on your railroad for the first
time. Thereafter, it starts in forward after every three-second power
interrupt.)
Congratulations! Transformer operations
