Electric smell | O Gauge Railroading On Line Forum

MerlinOGR Forum Member

Last night I couldn’t sleep so I decided to run some of my early nineties trains. I noticed a electric smell on one of them and don’t know if this is normal. The train runs great but was wondering if that’s a early warning something isn’t right. Maybe this weekend I will take the shell off and check the wires. I don’t know if these trains had boards in them or not. One mistake I made when I ran it last year was I filled up the smoking fluid and put it away(They lay on their side in the box)and when I took it out of the bag there was smoke fluid on it. Wondering if that might be the smell.

2/25/217:16 PM

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gunrunnerjohnOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Perhaps if you shared the actual make & model in question we could be of more help.

MartyEOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBERMEMORIAL SUPPORTER

@Merlin posted:
One mistake I made when I ran it last year was I filled up the smoking fluid and put it away(They lay on their side in the box)and when I took it out of the bag there was smoke fluid on it. Wondering if that might be the smell.

I mark all my engine boxes as to which way the locomotive is sitting upright and that is the only way they are stored. This way the fluid stays where it is supposed to, in the smoke unit.

CraftechOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

If the smoke fluid leaked out you would see it all over the bottom of the engine including on the trucks. It would look like oil.

John

Jim R.OGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

Not sure what you mean by “electric smell.” Ozone? Something burning?

if there’s trouble brewing, the best indication would be excess heat or performance changes.

2/27/2112:39 PM

RickOOGR Forum Member

Isn't that the smell you get riding the bumper cars at the carnival?

2/27/2112:41 PM

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