Wow to Operate I r VP's and I. I M ENT • P .3 a COMPLETE LIST OF LIONEL APPROVED SERVICE STATIONS FOR 1956-57 IMPORTANT-READ THIS FIRST Never Connect Your Layout Directly to a Household current, but there are a number of exceptions. In areas where Electric Outlet. Always Use a Transformer. special conditions exist special transformers for these are Most Lionel train outfits are designed for use with Lionel available from your Lionel dealer. If you are in doubt about "Multi-Control" transformers. These transformers change the the rating of your household supply, consult your electric line voltage available in your house to low voltage suitable for company. Lionel trains and accessories. "Multi-Control" transformers are If You Happen to equipped with built-in controls for regulating train speed, stop- Have Direct Current (D.C.), a ping and reversing locomotives, and blowing the train whistle. Transformer Cannot Be Used. All "027" outfits include a transformer which is suitable for Low voltage direct current such as is available from auto- operating the train plus a few lights or signals. mobile storage batteries, or from d.c. generators used in some "0" outfits DO NOT include a transformer. A transformer rural areas can be used with special control units instead of to fit the requirements of your model railroad must be pur- transformers. chased separately from your dealer. High voltage direct current such as is used in some lower Manhattan areas in New York City requires the use of an Make Sure That Your Transformer Rating (Volts and INVERTER in addition to the transformer. See the section Cycles) Corresponds to Your House Electric Supply. "Your Power Supply." For more information about d.c. opera- Most places in the United States use 1 10-115 volt, 60-cycle tion write to Lionel Engineering Department. HOW TO USE THIS BOOKLET We know that most people don't like to read instruction You can glance over the rest of the book just to see what books, but model railroading can become pretty compli- it contains so that you can refer to it if you run into trouble cated unless you know something about it. This booklet is or want further information. designed both for the beginner and for the advanced model If you want to know more about this fascinating hobby, railroader. read "Model Railroading" written by Lionel editorial staff If you are a beginner we suggest you read the first part and published by Bantam Books. You can get it for 50 cents of the book carefully. It will tell you step by step how to at most local hobby shops or from Bantam Books—Dept. L, set up and operate a simple one-train layout. 657 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago 1 1, Ill. for 55 cents. All Contents Copyrighted 1956 by THE LIONEL CORPORATION Printed in U. S. of America 15 cast 26th Street, New York 10, N. Y. Form 926-56 TABLE OF CONTENTS PART ONE SWITCHES AND CROSSINGS Page 26 No. 022 Switches -- Other Uses of Non-Derailing Mechanism — How to Operate Your First Lionel Outfit Controlling Signals with Non -Derailing Mechanism — No. 1122 HOW TO ASSEMBLE YOUR LAYOUT Page 2 Switches for "027" Track — Use of Crossings Check Your Equipment — Join the Track Sections Attach MULTIPLE TRAIN OPERATION Page 29 Lockon to Track — Connect Lockon to Transformer --- Which One Loop with Insulated Blocks — Preserving Reversing with Transformer Posts to Use — Short Circuits — Checking Trouble Insulated Blocks — Separate Insulated Loops — Typical Lay- Spots outs for Multiple Train Operation — Use of Relays HOW TO OPERATE THE TRAIN Page 6 WORKING WITH LIONEL TRACK Page 36 Regulating Train Speed — Reversing the Locomotive — How Lionel Track Sizes — How to Make Shorter Sections — Lionel to Disconnect Reversing Mechanism — No. 50 Gang Car, Track Pliers — Insulated Track Sections -- Automatic Control No. 60 Trolley and No. 3360 "Burro" — Sounding the Whistle of Accessories — Automatic Control of Trains or Horn -- "Magne-Traction" Locomotives — Lionel "Smoke" Locomotives — How to Take Care of Smoke Locomotives — SPECIAL INSTALLATIONS AND CONTROLS Page 40 Coupling and Uncoupling Fixed Voltage for Remote Control Sections — Use of No. 167 Whistle Controller AUTOMATIC OPERATING CARS Page 9 ABOUT YOUR POWER SUPPLY Page 41 Cars Using Contact Sliders — Plunger-Operated Cars — OTC Contactor No. 3356 Operating Horse Car — No. 3424 Brake- Alternating and Direct Current — What a Transformer Does man Car — No. 3927 Track Cleaning Car — No. 3359 Twin-Bin - - What Causes Voltage Drop -- Using Auxiliary Lockons — Dump Car Circuits with Common "Ground" — Transformer Rating — About Wattage — Power Requirements of Lionel Equipment — How to Estimate Available Power — How to Connect PART TWO Transformers in "Parallel" Model Railroad Accessory Equipment PART THREE TABLE OF ACCESSORY CONNECTIONS Page 12 How to Build a Model Railroad What Voltages to Use - - How to Connect Accessories in "Parallel" HOW TO PLAN AND BUILD A MODEL RAILROAD Page 46 Planning the Layout — How to Build Platforms - Building AUTOMATIC SIGNALING Page 14 Grades Achieving Realism by Landscaping — No. 110 and I 1 1 Trestle Sets — Additional L shaped Layouts Installing 145C and 153C Contactors — No. 140 Banjo Signal — No. 155 Ringing Signal — No. 252 Crossing Gate — No. 151 Semaphone — No. 145 Gateman — No. 445 Switch Tower — PART FOUR No. 450 Signal Bridge — No. 153 Block Signal — No. 154 Equipment Crossing Signal — No. 257 Horn Station — No. 253 Auto- How to Take Care of Lionel matic Block Control WHAT YOU CAN DO YOURSELF Page 52 Cleaning Your Equipment — Lubricating Lionel Trains — Where OPERATING ACCESSORIES Page 20 Not to Lubricate — Where to Use Lionel Lubricant — Where to Lubricant No. 356 Freight Station — No. 415 Fueling Station — No. 460 Not to Lubricate — Where to Use Oil and — -- Replacing "Piggy-Back" Loader — No. 352 Icing Station — No. 364 Lubricating Car Trucks — The Train Whistle Clean Motors — Motor Trouble Lumber Leader — No. 397 Coal Loader -- No. 362 Barrel Headlight Lamps — How to Loader — No. 282 Gantry Crane — No. 465 Dispatching Station Shooting - - No. 464 Lumber Mill — No. 497 Coaling Station — No. 342 Culvert Loader LIONEL AUTHORIZED SERVICE STATIONS Page 55 HOW TO ASSEMBLE AND OPERATE YOUR FIRST LIONEL OUTFIT Check Your Equipment By the time you read this you have probably already unpacked and examined your Lionel outfit. It's a good idea to save the boxes and the corrugated board packing. They have been carefully designed to protect the equipment and will come in handy for storing or transporting your outfit. Check your equipment to see that nothing is missing. Push the pins of one track section tightly into the rail openings of the next section. A standard Lionel train outfit includes the following: Locomotive (either steam-type or diesel) Locomotive tender (with steam-type locomotives) Join the Track Sections 3 to 5 cars (either freight or passenger) The track should fit together tightly for good electrical 8 sections of curved track contact. If the rail openings have been distorted or enlarged 1 remote control track set either through long use or accident they should be reshaped 1 to 7 sections of straight track by using Lionel Track Pliers, as described on page 37. Bottle of Smoke Pellets (with smoke locomotives) One Remote Control Track Set, used for uncoupling and Tube of Lionel lubricant operating cars, is supplied with each outfit. As many addi- 1 track lockon tional sets as you like can be used in a layout. Remote In addition, all "027" outfits include a transformer which Control Track sections are assembled like any ordinary is packed with the necessary connecting wires. straight section. Examine the equipment to see that it is in good condition. Spin all the car wheels to see that they turn freely. Put a CONTROL RAILS ELECTRO-MAGNET very small dab of Lionel lubricant on the ends of the axles. If your locomotive is one of those where the motor can be seen from the side (see sketch on page 52), you should lubricate the ends of the armature shaft before you run the locomotive. Your outfit may have been stored on the dealer's No. 6019 FOR "027" TRACK shelves for several months and the lubricant put on in the factory may have been absorbed by the wrapping paper. CONTROLLER UCS FOR "0" TRACK Those Lionel locomotives where the motor is concealed have a large lubricant reservoir which is filled at the factory and does not require any attention for a long time. Page 2 "Clean and Lubricate Your Equipment" use LTC Illuminated Lockons available at your dealer. Insulated connecting wires, or leads, are supplied coiled for convenience. You can straighten them out if you like. Before making connections remove the insulating covering. The amount of track supplied with a stand- oval ard Lionel outfit will make a simple Trick here is not to cut layout. The Remote Control Section goes the wire. Wrap the wire on the side of the oval, preferably be- around your index finger. tween two ordinary straight sections. Rest the wire on a solid surface. Place a dull knife blade firmly on the wire. Pull the wire toward you. 0 4 REMOTE CONTROL Connect Lockon to Transformer TRACK SET The two lockon clips are now connected to a pair of trans- former binding posts. See next page for the correct posts. Attach the Lockon to Track Push the springy upper half of the clip down until the After track is assembled, attach a lockon to one of the metal loop in the lower part projects through the slot in straight track sections. Lockons are used for connecting the top. Insert the bare wire end through the loop and wires from the track to the transformer.