I don’t know if any of the O gauge units use glycol. It may only be the Garden Scale trains (and some accessories). I think some of the Dept 56 building that have smoke units may use glycol based fluid.
My gas bill at the end of the month just might have that effect on me! [:O]
Smoke dosnt give me a headache but it does make me cough alot, do other people have this problem?
Nope, but the cigaretts I smoke while watching my Railking go around the track with lots of smoke billowing out the smokestack sure does, I figure it’s either one or the other, so after I finish my carton of cigaretts, I will just bite the bullet and quit smoking.
Paul
Might be the cause of my allergic cough. ???
The Ford Modular layout was on display in Livonia a few years back and one of the members had a Premier Dreyfus Hudson pulling a set of K-Line 21 inch scale aluminum cars. The smoke unit was pushing out tons of smoke and people were oohing and ahhing. A young mother had two little kids in a stoller. They wanted to see the trains. As she got near the display (aka within range of the smoke cloud) the kids started coughing like they had TB. Mom got seriously PO’d, glared first at the operator (they were using a CAB-1 and TPC’s to run the trains) then at dad who had thought this would a fun family outing then she did a 180 out of the hall.
When I was a kid in the 70s, my brothers set ran out of smoke fluid. We were 20 miles from a city with Lionel trains. Being on a dairy farm my parents were too busy and too cheap to buy smoke fluid. So my mom had me put drops of water in. It worked but I think not as long. Is glycol a type of alcohol? That might cause a fire in a Lionel engine.
Glycol’s are alcohol related/derivatives. re use of water. Water and electrcity gerenally don’t play well. I would not recommend dropping water down a toy train smoke stack or any other orfice either.[;)]