05-16-2010, 07:37 PM
This is AC powered. Lionel did not use DC in their O gauge trains. There was a brief period after they changed hands (70s? 80s?) when some cheap ones were made with DC power, but they had a lot of plastic in 'em.
The big giveaway is that thing in the middle with the lever. That is the E-unit -- an electromagnetically operated DPDT switch for reversing. This switches the polarity of the field coils relative to the motor armature coils.
Is there a bulb in the headlight? Could the wire plug into the back of it somehow?
The big giveaway is that thing in the middle with the lever. That is the E-unit -- an electromagnetically operated DPDT switch for reversing. This switches the polarity of the field coils relative to the motor armature coils.
Is there a bulb in the headlight? Could the wire plug into the back of it somehow?
David
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.
Moderato ma non troppo
Perth & Exeter Railway Company
Esquesing & Chinguacousy Radial Railway
In model railroading, there are between six and two hundred ways of performing a given task.
Most modellers can get two of them to work.