Liberty Bell Limited

[RyansPaPa]

I purchased a used Bachmann Liberty Bell Limted for my grandson as a display in his bedroom. He wants to run it, so I hooked it up and have found that I can't get some of the functions to work.
Does anyone have a copy of the instruction manual that they could email to me?

[Jon D. Miller]

The Liberty Bell was first cataloged in 1995.  It will have the Version 4 drive train.

The only instructions that came with a Big Hauler was an owner's manual. You might be able to get one from Bachmann Industries.

You will find information on the Big Hauler at George Schreyer's web site.

http://www.girr.org/girr/tips/tips.html

George's site should answer some of your questions.  There's not much to do to get the locomotive's functions to work.  It only has chuff and a smoke generator.  A 9 volt battery is used to power the chuff.  It goes under the water hatch on the tender.  Smoke off-on switch is behind the smoke box door on the front of the smoke box.  Don't count on getting much if any smoke from this unit.

Do a complete lubrication of the engine.  George's site will help you understand what is required.

Good luck.

[RyansPaPa]

Thanks for the info. I was having trouble with the sound, but took the drive train cover off the bottom and found a wire off of a switch at one of the wheels. Fixed it and now it works again.  Train seems pretty simple over all, however I have an Aristo-craft caboose that won't couple with the Bachmann knuckles. Guess I may have to get new knuckle couplers?

[grumpy]

If you close up both couplers you can slide one on to the other. You can also open up the the moveable part of the Aristocraft coupler with a round file to make it work.
Don

[RyansPaPa]

Thanks for the info. I did make the two connect by closing both and sliding them together as you said, but that is a royal pain in the butt. I will look on eBay and try to find matching couplers that I can adapt to the cars.

[grumpy]

Go to Kadee couplers they will fix you up . If you get frustrated by the website give them a call they will be glad to help. Replace ment costs about 6 -$7.00