Bought mikado smoke unit failure one hour usage sent for repairs same problem ten minutes later. I owned for six mounths they have been fixing it most of this time.
Is this the Scale or O-27 Mikado?, Lionel has both out currently, and in the recent past. I have the O-27 model in the Union Pacific version, no TMCC, and it has not given me any trouble at all. I have not had any trouble with the smoke unit, though they do not smoke as heavily as MTH Locomotives usually do.
Sorry to hear that your experience has not been as Good as mine,
Doug