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Maintaining and servicing your locomotive
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our locomotive is equipped with Tire-Traction. This means that four of the drive wheels
are fitted with rubber traction tires to enhance tractive effort so your locomotive can pull
many cars at once.
Lionel has provided extra traction tires to replace the installed traction tires if they ever wear
out. Simply unscrew the drive rod nut from the wheel using a 3/16” nut driver, slip off the old
traction tire and remove it from under the drive rod. Place the traction tire on the wheel and
re-tighten the drive rod nut. You’re now ready to pull that long freight back to the yard.
Tire-Traction