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Lionel O gauge 4-4-2 Hiawatha locomotive
why doesn’t lionel design a new smoke system for its locos? the lack of smoke on lionel’s products seems to be very common, unfortunately.
I’m with Ike from New Jersey I have 5 Lionel TMCC engines and I only run one with the smoke unit on because the smoke fluid is every were but in the unit. I don’t care if I put 2 drops or 5 drops it comes out of the bottom of my engines. You thing that the price you pay for these engines that Lionel would put a better smoke unit in there engines.
I couldn’t agree more with Ike and Robert. Lionel installed a new smoke unit in my B&M Mogul under warranty; it smoked fine for a while, but is back to a non smoker. I heard that MTH smoke units have been installed in Lionel locos. If anyone knows someone that can do this, please let me know! In the meantime, I’ll be an MTH customer.
this loco and the cars impress as everything one would expect a Lionel Train set to be . Those that have this set should be thrilled to own it,
nice loco sounds great!