THE GILBERT HALL American Flyer, Инструкция по эксплуатации и сборке

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EQUIPMENT
American Flyer Trains can be coupled, uncoupled, reversed in direction,
stopped and started again in the same direction, switched from one track
to another, caused to operate on a Dead Block System with one or more
trains on the same layout; all this can be controlled from a central point
any distance from the tracks.
On the following pages you will find complete instructions for the hook-up
and use of all American Flyer equipment and operating cars.
NO. 720A REMOTE CONTROL AND NO. 722A
MANUAL CONTROL TRACK SWITCHES
After you have acquired a train set and ran it for a while, you soon
will want to do more than just run it around a circle or oval. You will want
to be a “dispatcher” and shunt your train onto sidings, have double layouts
and run trains from one layout to another, have double lanes of traffic and
switching yards. You will find after checking over the various track layouts
shown on pages
6
and 7, that most of them require switches. These are only
suggested layouts and most railroaders would rather design their own layouts
to fit their respective needs.
American Flyer switches are very simple to hook-up and operate. Just
set the switches in the track layout the same as a piece of straight or curved
track and hook up the wires from the control box as shown in Fig.
19
on Page
24.
For Use With Transformer
Hook the single
YELLOW
wire from the control box to the
15
VOLT
POST
on the transformer and the single
BLACK
wire to the
BASE
POST.
The two
4
wire cables go to the two switches and the various colored wires
are attached to the corresponding colored terminals. With this hook-up the
switch and control box lights are always lighted and you know at any time
which way the switch frog is set.
These new AMERICAN FLYER switches are really two kinds of
switches
in
one, that
is,
they can be used in the conventional manner or by
simply moving a button, two or more trains can be operated at the same time
without the use of special control buttons or block signals.
T o use the switches in the regular manner, move the button toward the
position marked regular operation as far as it will go.
To operate two or more trains on the same layout at the same
time,
move the button to position marked 2-train operation. With the button in
this position trains will operate only on the
loop the switch is set for. If the
switch is set for the inside loop, any train which happens to be on the outside
loop will stop. When the switch is reset for the outside loop, the train in this
loop will start and the train in the inside loop will stop.
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