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Adding fluid to your locomotive’s smoke generators
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our steam locomotive is equipped with two smoke units that produce safe, clean, white
smoke during operation. Like a prototypical steam locomotive, the main stack emits smoke,
and a blast of “steam” is emitted from the whistle when the whistle is sounded. The smoke unit
switches must be in the ON position for the smoke effects to operate.
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o prevent damage to the heating elements,
never
operate your locomotive’s smoke
units without smoke fluid.
When adding fluid,
DO NOT EXCEED 20 DROPS per smoke unit as this
can cause your smoke units to become oversaturated
and allow leakage onto the electronics. Add 20
drops initially to the main stack (see Figure 5)
and to the whistle steam fill location (see Figure
6). Add 10 to 20 drops thereafter.
If you prefer to operate your locomotive without
smoke, locate the smoke unit switches on the top of
the locomotive and slide them to the OFF position.
Refer to Figure 7 for the location of the switches.
The main stack smoke and the Whistle Steam effect
are controlled independently.
To prevent the Whistle Steam smoke
from leaking around the dome, place
a drop of smoke fluid around rubber
grommet on the brass fitting in the
boiler. Blow the smoke fluid down into
the hole, and be sure that the dome is
seated properly on the boiler.
Figure 5. Adding smoke fluid to the main stack
Figure 6. Whistle Steam (auxiliary) smoke fluid
fill location (dome shown removed)
Whistle Steam fill
location under dome
Figure 7. Smoke switch locations (under the removable dome cover)
Hint!
Locomotive basics
Switches located
under the removable
dome cover
PGM RUN
NO ODY ODY
NO SMK SMK
NO SMK SMK
MAIN
AUX
