Threatening to jump on a lionmaster steam loco due to its proportion and good looks. However, I run conventional and my legacy diesel units are not impressive smokers. Is there any reason to think this lionmaster will be different at 12-15 volts instead of 18+?
A steamer needs to smoke! What is your experience?
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Many Lionel locomotives will only smoke decent in conventional if you use a chopped sine wave transformer.
Marty, that may be my issue. I changed over a few months ago from Z1000s to a Z4000. I don't run smoke all the time (or all locos all the time either for that matter). There seemed to be a noticeable drop in smoke when I ran the legacy locos- nothing appeared to change on MTH or lionchief plus. I did not connect the dots.
I don't have a legacy steamer, is it reasonable to assume the lionmaster uses the same smoke system as a legacy diesel? I may need to dig up some lionel parts lists.
hokie71 posted:, I run conventional and my legacy diesel units are not impressive smokers.
certain lionel diesels smoke less after getting the load moving just like the real ones.
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