Lionel E-6 Owner's Manual

Lionel E-6 AA

Diesel Locomotive

Owner’s Manual

71-4521-250

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Table of contents

Features of your E-6 AA Diesel Locomotive Set

Transformer operations

Running your E-6 set with a Lionel transformer 3
Locking your E-6 into a single operational state 4
Using your E-6’s ElectroCouplers in the non-Command environment 5
Installing the Lionel no. 610-5906-001 Sound Activation Button 6

Maintaining and servicing your E-6

Lubricating your E-6 set 7-8
Adding fluid to your locomotive’s smoke generator 9
Servicing your E-6’s lamps 9

Odyssey System operations

Odyssey System operations 10

RailSounds operations

Your E-6’s RailSounds system—the basics 11
Experiencing the range of your E-6’s RailSounds system 12
Notes on RailSounds 12

TrainMaster Command operations

The Command Control environment 13
Running your E-6 set in the TrainMaster Command environment 14
CAB-1 commands for your E-6 14
CAB-1 numeric keypad commands for your E-6 15
Tuning your E-6’s performance 16
Assigning your Powered and Non-Powered E-6 units new ID#s 17
Reprogramming the Command reverse unit circuit board to restore features 17

Advanced TrainMaster operations

Building a Lash-Up 18-19
Lionel Service 20

• Odyssey System Speed Control

• Two powerful flywheel-equipped
can motors (in powered unit)

• Digital TrainMaster Command
Control system

• RailSounds digital sound system

• Tire-Traction

• Die-cast ElectroCouplers

• Illuminated headlights/interior light

• CrewTalk (in Command)

• TowerCom (in Command)

• Diesel smoke generator

• Directional lighting

Y

ou purchased a tough, durable loco-

motive—the E-6 diesel locomotive set
built by Lionel. From the crisp detail and
expert decoration on the outside, to the

brute power under the hood, the Lionel E-6
set is ready for duty on your model railroad.
Experience the superiority of today’s Lionel.

Congratulations!

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The following Lionel marks may be used throughout this instruction manual and are protected under
law. All rights reserved.

Lionel

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, TrainMaster®, Odyssey™, RailSounds™, CrewTalk™, TowerCom™, DynaChuff™,

StationSounds

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, Pullmor®, ElectroCoupler™, Magne-Traction®, CAB-1 Remote Controller®,

Powermaster

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, Lionel ZW®, ZW

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Move ‘em out!

Place your E-6 set on Lionel or
Lionel-compatible O gauge track.

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Power up your E-6 set with your transformer.

• Your E-6 set is designed to operate on 8-18 volts alternating cur­rent. Virtually all Lionel and Lionel-compatible alternating-current transform-

ers are suitable.

• Do not power your E-6 set with direct current (DC). Damage to sensi­tive electronic components may occur.

• When you first power up your track, the E-6 will pause between three and
eight seconds. After this pause, RailSounds in the powered E-6 unit will fire up,
the headlight of the powered E-6 unit will turn on, and the cab lights in both
units will illuminate. At this point, your E-6 set is in neutral. This occurs only
when placing your E-6 set on the track for the first time. Thereafter, they start in
forward after every three-second interruption of power.

Note!

Note!

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Transformer operations

• Get your E-6 set moving. Press the DIR button on your CAB-1 remote or
Lionel transformer. This sequences the Lionel reverse unit to the next operating
state.

• Adjust track voltage until your E-6 set moves at your desired speed. To
increase speed, increase track voltage. To decrease speed, reduce voltage. To stop
the locomotive, turn-off track power.

• See page 4 for information on locking your E-6 in a single operat-

ing state.

Running your Lionel E-6 set with a Lionel transformer

T

o select a single operational state for

your Lionel E-6 set (example: forward
only), you can deactivate the reverse unit’s
sequencing function with the reverse unit
control switch.

Get your locomotive moving in the
desired direction, then slow it down without
stopping. Set the reverse unit control switch
on the Powered E-6’s underside to PRG. The

E-6 is now “locked” into your chosen direc­tion.

When you no longer want single-direc­tion operation, just slide the reverse unit
control switch back to RUN.

Your locomotive’s reverse unit will

“reset” to forward after any five
second or longer power interruption, regard­less of original locked-out direction.

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Transformer operations

Locking your E-6 into a single operational state

SND

NO SND

NO SMKSMKRUN PRG

NO SMKSMKRUN PRG

RUN/ SMK/

PRG No SMK

RUN/ SMK/

PRG No SMK

SND No SND

Smoke Unit
(see page 9 for
details)

FRONT

FRONT

Note!

Powered Unit

Non-Powered Unit

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Transformer operations

Using your Powered and Non-Powered E-6 Set’s ElectroCouplers in the
non-Command environment

T

he front of each E-6 unit features an

ElectroCoupler that responds to com­mands from your CAB-1 remote in
Command Control.

To use the ElectroCoupler on your

Powered and Non-Powered E-6 set in the

non-Command environment, you must cou­ple a piece of rolling stock equipped with
Lionel magnetic couplers directly to your E­6 set’s ElectroCouplers. The magnetic cou­pler on the rolling stock–not the
ElectroCouplers on the engines–will then
react to the magnetic field generated by a
Lionel remote-control track section (avail­able separately). Place your rolling stock’s
coupler “trigger disc” over the central coil
of a remote-control track section (available
separately) and press UNCOUPLE on the
controller. The magnetic field pulls the disc
downward, and the coupler opens.

Your E-6’s ElectroCouplers
will NOT open manually or
by using a remote-control
track section.

Magnetic coupler on the rolling stock coupled
to your E-6

Note!

Remote-control
track section

Transformer operations

Installing the Lionel Sound Activation Button

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POWER
SUPPLY

A

POWER

SUPPLY

A

For AC transformers with a horn/whistle button

For AC transformers lacking a horn/whistle button

Existing wire

Black wire

Red wire

Lionel no. 610-5906-001
Sound Activation Button for
activating the bell

Lionel no.

610-5906-001

Sound Activation

Button for whistle

Lionel no. 610-5906-001
Sound Activation Button for bell

Black wire

Red wire

Red wire

The no. 610-5906-001 button works with any Lionel AC transformer except
no. 6-4690 Type MW. Transformers made by other manufacturers may not be
compatible with RailSounds.

Note!

T

o operate the bell and horn sounds when

operating your locomotive with conven­tional transformers, you’ll need to install the
Lionel no. 610-5906-001 Sound Activation
Button (available separately). Connect the

button(s) as shown below.

All track power must feed through
the Sound Activation Button. Do

not bypass the button.

Note!

Existing wire

Common/Ground/U

Power

Common/Ground/U

Power

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