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I just picked up this NYC Hudson and cannot find any way to activate the whistle steam feature.There are no instructions in the pamphlet that came with the engine.There is a small hole drilled in the top of the boiler under the whistle where I put smoke fluid but when I hit thw whistle nonthing happens.I run my trains with the MTH remote and I checked through the menus but could not find anything to activate this smoke unit.Does anyone have experience with this engine and how to activate this feature.Thank you for any help.

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Thank you for the quick reply.I found the answer by looking on youtube and saw a video.I tried to access the manual on the MTH website by clicking on the correct item # and then support but i was unable to download the manual.It is pretty disappointing that MTH sells a locomotive for more than $1000 and cannot print and include a full manual or even the small tube of smoke fluid that came with locomotives.

@joe woods posted:

.It is pretty disappointing that MTH sells a locomotive for more than $1000 and cannot print and include a full manual or even the small tube of smoke fluid that came with locomotives.

Joe,

I hear ya, but ...

If you bought this new from a dealer then it's time to go complain to the dealer.  If you bought it used from someone else then you have nothing to complain about.  Buyer beware.

Since you already tried downloading and that apparently didn't work, there's literally nothing we on the forum can do about this.  Take your experience directly to MTH instead.

Have you wasted your $1,000?  I'd say not at all.  But then again, more than anything else this hobby is about patience.  You may need to find some about now.

Mike

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@joe woods posted:

I just picked up this NYC Hudson and cannot find any way to activate the whistle steam feature.There are no instructions in the pamphlet that came with the engine.There is a small hole drilled in the top of the boiler under the whistle where I put smoke fluid but when I hit thw whistle nonthing happens.I run my trains with the MTH remote and I checked through the menus but could not find anything to activate this smoke unit.Does anyone have experience with this engine and how to activate this feature.Thank you for any help.

Which MTH Hudson?   Yes, all the new MTH engines now all come with the same generic manual that is not specific to the engines.  MTH no longer makes engine specific manuals.  The last 3 engines I bought this year all came with generic manuals, of only a few pages.  But MTH manuals were never really the greatest to be honest.

MTH makes you figure it out now, lol.

My J1 was the same way.  Had to find out from MTH where the whistle steam fluid was loaded (I would have never found it).

You do have to turn on Whistle steam in the menu soft keys in order for it to work.  Unfortunately, you have to turn it on every time you run the engine as it does not stick. That's the one thing I don't care for about MTH's whistle steam.

You have to activate a 2nd soft key for the quillable whistle feature too.   

Are you sure that model has a separate smoke unit and its not fed from the main stack?  Only reason I ask is previous Proto 3 versions do not show it in the parts diagrams as having 2 smoke units.  So, it would make sense nothing is removable.  But these latest models could be different.

On the J1's released in Feb the little trough the brass whistle sits in comes off and has a magnet underneath but when you look at it, it does not look removable and is pretty tight, so it doesn't look like it comes off.

Are you sure that model has a separate smoke unit and its not fed from the main stack?  Only reason I ask is previous Proto 3 versions do not show it in the parts diagrams as having 2 smoke units.  So, it would make sense nothing is removable.  But these latest models could be different.

All of the MTH locos, O and G gauge with smoking whistle use a separate smoke unit.  I believe Lionel has a dual smoke unit to feed both the smoke and whistle, but JDS was toying with the idea of building one.
The smoking whistle feature can only be activated in DCS.

@Jon G posted:

All of the MTH locos, O and G gauge with smoking whistle use a separate smoke unit.  I believe Lionel has a dual smoke unit to feed both the smoke and whistle, but JDS was toying with the idea of building one.
The smoking whistle feature can only be activated in DCS.

That is really good information to confirm because I did not know if MTH did what Lionel did sometimes and used the main stack for both.  Sometimes I wonder if the hole for the whistle on some MTH models is just for the smoke to exit or if it's a fill hole too, like in Joes case. 

That is really good information to confirm because I did not know if MTH did what Lionel did sometimes and used the main stack for both.  Sometimes I wonder if the hole for the whistle on some MTH models is just for the smoke to exit or if it's a fill hole too, like in Joes case.

A hole in the standard MTH single chamber smoke unit wouldn't work for whistle steam, you need a separate fan and controls in order to run them independently.

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