Thinking about buying a command control steam engine since the MTH diesel is such a blast. Which engines/lines of engines have the most smoke and steam? By most I mean most places it comes out of:stack, whistle, steam chest, blow down etc.
Just have a 6x10 right now but if I can get the basement emptied I will have quite a bit more, so 36" curves for now.
Frank
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mth and lionel legacy. The lionel legacy K4 has great whistle smoke besides stack smoke/ Non lionel legacy do not smoke all that well. mth smokes the bes of all and 3rd rail smokes the poorest.
Although I don't allow smoke use on my home layout (messes up the scenery big time), ANY product from MTH will out perform anything from any other manufacturer! However, the MTH models do NOT have all that extra smoke out of whistles, blowdowns, and what ever else trips your trigger.
MTH has a rep for being the best, and my MTH engines sure do live up to it. I don't run the smoke at home unless I am demonstrating for a visitor but when our club is set up at a show I pour it on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...;feature=c4-overview This out smokes my mth engines and my vl hudson does to
The upcoming Lionel Vision Line Big Boy. It has two smoke units for the stack, whistle smoke, and blowdown smoke, all triggered from the remote.
John nailed it.
While MT smoke units do outperform most others, they only put one in each engine. No Steam Chest, Blowdown or whistle smoke there yet.
I am considering how some of this can be done by tapping off the existing smoke unit.
Russell, Harry Henning and I are working on a project to add whistle and blowdown smoke to a couple of brass engines. They would be triggered by the TMCC remote, just like the Big Boy.
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