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RailKing F-3 Diesel Engine
Basic Operation
Operation Buttons
Use the operation buttons on your remote as described below.
• Throttle –
To increase or decrease track voltage, and therefore train speed,
press the throttle control rocker switch. Pressing the top end of the throttle
will increase voltage and speed. Pressing the bottom end of the throttle will
decrease voltage and speed. The engine will maintain the speed you set after
you release the throttle until you press it again to change the voltage and
speed.
• Horn/Whistle
- To sound the horn, firmly press the Horn/Whistle button.
The horn will sound for as long as you continue to depress the button. It will
stop when you release the button.
• 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 and 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 remote. 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 for 25 seconds or more.
• Emergency Stop
– To drop track voltage instantly to 0, firmly press the
Emergency Stop button. All trains on the track controlled by the remote will
stop until you reapply voltage.
