Gee Carl I am sorry you are that upset. Mine works well and I am satisfied. Lionel didn't design it to puff it is to be prototypical and be a wisp of smoke.
Glad you make your own and you are satisfied with that.
Hi Bill! Sorry, I sounded so upset about my AF smoking caboose. But when Lionel says their going to make a smoking caboose, and you wait a couple of years before its for sale with all it's problems suppositly corrected and you finally receive yours and right out of the box the wheels won't move and running it around the track at normal speed produces no smoke at all, and the voltage regulator circuit just blows after a few rounds around the layout, then I guess you can say I was a little upset.....Anyway I had to call Charles Ro Supply today to get a aurthorization number to send my caboose back today. The person I talked to said they had a lot of the same complaints me and others forum members were talking about. I decided to send mind back and I exchanged it for the 1956 CATALOG BOX CAR..The rep. was very nice and understood my dissapointment about the caboose and said he was sending me my new box car, and thanked me for my business. While where on the subject of smoking cabooses, thought I'd throw out a maybe little know fact to all American Flyer guys out there that in 1958 American Flyer was going to come out with their own Smoking Caboose numbered 25055 in a bay window configuration, the ad read "The ultimate in railroad realism! When smoke curls out of the chimmney, you know that Shanty Sam is inside cooking up a mess of corned willy, black beans or steaming a pot of joe. Now, with this newest American Flyer rolling stock, you can have smoke coming out of BOTH ends of your train set - white, puffing smoke from the steam locomotive and from Shanty Sam's pot beillied stove at the tail end. Don't miss it, is all we can say. It will be one of 1958's hotter (and smoking) items in ANY train line!!" The cost was only $9.95 suggested retail, if anybody would like to have a copy of this old advertisement please let me know, or e-mail me at BIRD66AF@AOL.COM . The AF Smoking caboose was never produced due to Lionel beating them to bunch coming out with their own smoking caboose in 1957. ( Lionel Cried Patient Infringment).. Thought I'd throw out another American Flyer secret, did all you flyer guys known that the original formula for American Flyer Smoke Fluid is the same formula they used for American Flyer Track Cleaning Fluid. If you have some original AF Track Cleaning Fluid laying around, just try it in one of your good smoking AF Engines, I did and it smoked like bandit.. This information was stated in July/August 1999 issue or " S GUAUGIAN MAGAZINE"PAGE 31...Again if somebody wants a copy of this page, please let me know!!
Carl G.
Guys, I took this picture of the stove in a real caboose at the Galveston Texas train museum. Note that it couldn't put out smoke like an engine and Lionel's smoking caboose is prototypical. Scale guys should love it.
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You may also like to try some of our "SMOKE CLOUD" brand fluid in your smoking caboose units.
