12-29-2008, 11:13 AM
Russ Bellinis Wrote:One last recommendation, I would forgo smoke in an ho scale locomotive. The smoke is made by burning oil in an electric heater hidden in the front of the boiler. One of the guys in the modular club tried using the smoke generator in a BLI locomotive model and melted the smoke box. BLI replaced the locomotive for him, but he hasn't tried smoke since. We have also found in the club when we have set up at shows next to the large scale or the Lionel O-scalers that the smoke deposits oil all over our tracks and makes constant track cleaning a necessary chore to keep trains running on our ho scale modular layout. In addition the smoke doesn't even look realistic.
I second this. Being smoke equipped isn't a problem, but I wouldn't add the oil that you use to cause it to smoke!
Michael
My primary goal is a large Oahu Railway layout in On3
My secondary interests are modeling the Denver, South Park, & Pacific in On3 and NKP in HO
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My primary goal is a large Oahu Railway layout in On3
My secondary interests are modeling the Denver, South Park, & Pacific in On3 and NKP in HO
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