Tire-Traction - GE VISION Line ES44AC Owner's Manual

Maintaining and servicing your locomotive

Tire-Traction

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our locomotive is equipped with traction tires. 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 four extra traction tires to replace the installed traction tires if
they ever wear out. The traction tires are replaced by slipping off the old traction tire and
replacing it with a new traction tire (Lionel part # 620-8815-206) on the wheel.
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