Rapido Trains F40PH-2D Operating Instructions Manual - Functions

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from our web site. It’s called the “Prime Mover Startup Delay” and at the time of writing 

it was on page 35.

If you press F8 when the locomotive is already moving, it will skip the startup and the 

sound will just turn on. Press F8 again to turn the sound off. 

Note that if you are listening to your F40PH-2D idling nicely and then you select another 

engine, your locomotive still thinks F8 is pressed so it will keep idling along. However, 

if someone else selects your locomotive’s number and F8 isn’t pressed on his or her 

controller, the F40PH-2D will promptly shut down. He or she will need to press F8 again. 

Ah, bless... We’re being gender neutral by saying “he or she” when 99.999% of model 

railroaders are male. We hope that all three women who have bought this model ap-

preciate that.

FUNCTIONS

F0 Headlights

F1 Bell 

F2  Horn (and Bell)

F3  Doppler Horn

F4  Go Into/Out of “Standby”

F5  Go Into/Out of “Run”

F6  Ditch Lights

F7  Dim the Headlights

F8 Startup/Mute/Shutdown

F9  Dynamic Brake

F10  Red Classification Lights

F11 Brake

F12  Hostler (Switching) Lighting

F16  Sarco Valve (Spitter) – Slow

F17  Sarco Valve (Spitter) – Fast

F18  Brake Set/Release 

F19  Air Release

F20  Sarco After Shutdown

FUNCTIONS: MORE INFORMATION

F1 Bell

Your F40PH-2D is programmed with an accurate VIA E-Bell. VIA’s F40PH-2D fleet was 

retrofitted with E-Bells in 1998. To replace the E-Bell with an air bell, use a programming 

track (or LokProgrammer) and input the following (in order):

CV48=64, CV31=16, CV32=1, CV331= 0, CV31=16, CV32=2, CV290=0