HE WANTED SMOKE, I GAVE HIM SMOKE

Alex smoke looks great on the up and the conrail sounds great.  

These new ERR RailSounds Commanders are excellent.  A big thanks to ERR for bringing them to market. 

Great job as usual!!

Brent

Alex

Great job!

 I might try to get the engine I want you to enhance the smoke this coming weekend. will shoot you an email

Steve

Always an expert job Alex!!....I am coughing as I watch the video..

Alan

Alex,  great job.  Are you using JTs? 

Hi guys, thank you all for the nice comments and input!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marty yes, the smoke fluid is JT's.

Thanks,

Alex

Another great and professional job Alex.  My Army locomotive is a hit with Veterans and they love the smoke also.

Steve, Lady and Tex

I have never understood the diesel smoke thing. While your smoke units are impressive, in the real world a diesel smoking like that would be sent to the shop to find out what's wrong with it.

Rich couldn't agree with you more, Any of my own Diesels I run on my layout, are run with the smoke unit off or on low. I'm really a steam guy and I run my steam engines with the smoke set on max.

 He said he wanted smoke and I gave him smoke, the customer is always right !!! LOL

Alex

Hi Steve,

Thanks,I'm glad the Veterans are enjoying the Army Locomotive !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alex

great job Alex.

nice video.

Alex, that Conrail is sounding good.

BNSF has units in service that smoke like that everyday. We are so short on power, they just run 'em til they blow up. 

There once was a time when diesels smoked just enough that you could tell that a unit back in the consist was at least running. Not any more. The new diesels hardly smoke at all, even in the 8th notch. Now, if you think a unit back in the consist has shut down, you can't determine which one it is by looking back to see which one isn't smoking. You have to go back and check them out.

Legacy diesel smoke units have low, medium, and high. Alex M diesel smoke units have: low, medium, high, and BLEW A TURBO!

If a Alco or a FM didn't smoke, you had a problem...

Looks good Alex, what did you do to the smoke units?

I keep waiting to see on the news that an EPA SWAT team have raided Alex's house. 

Alex, you are certainly the 'Smokemeister' of this forum. 

Now that's what I call good smokers. Beautiful job as always, Alex.

Very nice. 

They look great.

Amen.  I love my toy trains, and I love seeing the smoke.

Nice Job Alex.  I am posting today some info on my Williams Upgrade.   G

Hello everyone, I thank you all for the great comments, and input, I appreciate it very much.

There's honestly no secret that I have LOL. What I do is drill out the intake air hole

just like Mike Reagan does, I set the resistor a bit deeper into the batting, and I use

JT's Mega Steam. If the smoke unit is 6 or 8 OHMS I leave the resistor value the same, if the smoke unit is 27 OHM'S I drop the value of the resistor to 24 OHM's. That's exactly the way I do all my smoke units. I think I have the Smoke god's on my side. LOL . Also remember I learned everything from the pro's on this forum, and I put it to good use.

Thanks,

Alex

Alex has done quite a few of mine and now my train room is in a fog----I love it! 

Great job as always Alex.

My smoke detector just went off, and I hear fire sirens!!

Thanks George, I'm looking for your post on the Williams upgrade, but I can't find it

Let me know,I'd like to read it.

Thanks Dave, and Mark for the nice comment's

Alex

I bought a gas mask for Alex's locomotive smoke upgrade.

Here is a photo of my train room operation now

Nice one Eliot. Your room looks like my train room on a quiet day. 

It appears that Amtrak has entered into a contract with Alex to do some upgrades on its locomotives.

Eliot, and Bill

    Thanks for the pictures and great comment's!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alex

Bill,

That is what happens when you start a cold GE. I've seen much worse. So much smoke in fact that you would think it was a navy destroyer laying down a smoke screen! While Alex may be considered a smoke guru here, he definitely has nothing on a cold GE!!!

Who said diesels don't smoke like that