legacy Lionmaster Smoke

Here's my history with our LM BB:

From the factory, the whistle steam would frequently clog and required a blast of compressed air (Putting the tip of the "straw" right against the opening in the whistle) to get going.

Once going, the whistle steam would also "run dry" before the regular stack smoke would.

I noticed better performance if we added the smoke a whole day before running rather than refilling right before a run session.

Overall, the main stack volume was super thick and the whistle steam was slow to start and quick to run dry.

A few months in, we had to send it into Lionel for a smoke unit failure and it came back with none of the problems described above. The overall volume was a bit less from the main stack but the whistle steam never again showed signs of clogging and it would stay wet just as long as the main stack seemed to.

Graz thanks thats interesting. I have never had a cloggd whistle but I was hoping that with a new well soaked wick I would get better results from the stacks.

Mike