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2-8-8-2 STEAM ENGINE
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.
BASIC OPERATION
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.
OPERATION BUTTONS
MANUAL VOLUME CONTROL
To adjust the volume of all sounds made by this
engine, turn the master volume control knob
located under the tender clockwise to increase
the volume and counter-clockwise to decrease
the volume.
(see Figure 1)
Volume Adjust switch
Figure 1 - Proto-Sound 2.0 Volume Adjustment Knob
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