Anyone ever seen a model rolling stock car with a red light under the truck area and a smoke unit of some sort to stimulate a hot bearing? I just saw you it on an older episode of " I Love Toy Trains ".
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Lionel Hot Box Reefers.
Put a Electric RR kit into it so you can turn it on/off via remote. It gets old when left on all the time.
Jim
I got the original hot box that Lionel made. Talk to Gunrunnerjohn about the upgrade he has done one and he might be able to point you in the right direction.
What Jim said. Just pick up the ERR kit and you can convert it to command. I have three of them with various road names, one is going to go into a scale body to disguise it. I've had to rebuild the smoke in a couple of them for maximum effect.
From the comments about the "Hot Box" reefer over the years, I think I'm in the minority, but I find that running the car with the sound off is a good way to go. The overheating journal effect with the blinking light and the smoke is "convincing". (On the other hand, the sound is both unintelligible and annoying.) Running it behind a Lion Chief loco also will keep 18v in the rails to maximize the smoke.
X2000
The good thing about the Hot Box Reefer is it has a voltage regulator for the smoke unit, so you get good smoke at 10-12 volts on the track. It obviously works fine on 18 volts as well.
I'm not in the market, not my style. Neat nonetheless and something I've never seen.
It's a big hit at modular shows.
