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Post by david1 on Apr 11, 2021 20:46:27 GMT
Only use smoke every now and then. I'm allergic to any kind of smoke and my layout is in the living room. I can tolerate it for a short time but that is it.
Dave
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Post by Country Joe on Apr 11, 2021 23:23:12 GMT
I only use smoke in steam engines when my wife is away. I don't like smoke in diesels. As some others have said the smoke fills the room pretty quickly and since my train room is what would have been the den it's near the living room and the scent fills the living area.
I use smoke in steam engines when running them at train shows. The halls are huge, the smoke dissipates quickly, and the folks attending the show enjoy the smoke.
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Post by JKP on Apr 11, 2021 23:35:30 GMT
If my trains aren't smoking and loud, I'm not having fun .
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Post by Traindiesel! on Apr 12, 2021 0:01:02 GMT
Now, if I were going to go for absolute realism (down to the air pollution, dirt, smell, and possible bad health outcomes) on the early 1950's version of the Panhandle, I'd replace the smoke units in my Lionel Industrial smokestacks with fan-driven ones. My Open Hearth would billow multi-colored clouds of particulate-laden filth and everything would have a coating of graphite.
We're not going to go there, but I will run smoke in steamers, diesels, steel mills, and other spots (campfires, buildings).
George
Grimy. Dirty. Filthy. Sooty. Dirt Encrusted. Polluted and Muck covered. That's fantastic!! That feels like a railroad!!
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Post by Traindiesel! on Apr 12, 2021 0:03:29 GMT
I will operate smoke units until I get tired of refilling the stacks, depending on how long I'm running.
I operate steam locomotives at full smoke power. Diesels I operate the smoke setting on 'Low", except for ALCo's I run them on 'High'.
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Post by dennym57 on Apr 12, 2021 6:48:40 GMT
JT's Mega Steam dissipates fairly quick.
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Post by josef on Apr 12, 2021 9:41:44 GMT
I only use smoke in steam engines when my wife is away. I don't like smoke in diesels. As some others have said the smoke fills the room pretty quickly and since my train room is what would have been the den it's near the living room and the scent fills the living area.
I use smoke in steam engines when running them at train shows. The halls are huge, the smoke dissipates quickly, and the folks attending the show enjoy the smoke. I'm of the same mindset. Only run smoke in steam engines and not Diesels and when the wife isn't home. As to not running in diesels, just felt that the output amount of smoke is unrealistic.
Did install exhaust fan in room to dissipate after running smoke, works great.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2021 11:20:43 GMT
I was thinking this very topic last night running the trains. I would add another option to the pole. "How many run smoke units for like 10 mins and then shut them off?" We spend a lot of money for engines with fancy smoke effects or upgrade older engines with better smoke. At least for me, only to run them until they begin to stink or fill up the room and then shut them off. Not to mention all the side effects of running them, fluid all over the engine, and deposits on the layout and track.
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Post by cnw1995 on Apr 12, 2021 12:53:06 GMT
I sure love watching smoking trains but haven't run them that way for years.
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