http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcW9ZGwRqV0&NR=1
Smoking diesels! COOL!!![8D]
Loathar:
Wow, ‘scale’ CO2!! Actually, that’s kind of cool, but I didn’t think that thing was EVER going to start rolling, LOL! Actually, one of my 3-cylinder 4-8-2’s would have had that train around the layout TWICE by then. [:-^]
Seriously, though, a smoking O-scale diesel is pretty neat.
Tom[:D]
WOW.
What will they think of next?
I don’t care for the smoke in my smoking steamers as I’m asthmatic, but neato.
Pretty good hauler too.
Nice! - but there are 2 things wrong![:O]
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A UP caboose on a CN train?[%-)]
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Only Alcos are supposed to smoke!![swg]
You’d have to use black smoke fluid for an Alco.[:-^]
I was getting annoyed listening to the long start up cycle that sounded like a can of pennies rattling. Then that smoke caught me by surprise! The “puffing” action looks realistic too.
Oh Boy! ‘Realistic’ sound & smoke! - BUT on 3 rail track?
OK, I guess if it $ells. I remember Steam RR’s in Chicago. Soot everywhere.
1.Yes as a run through caboose.Some roads had caboose pool agreements on certain “through trains”.Saved terminal time
2.And GEs…A Alco wannabe
A Canadian railfan purchased the caboose and the railroad is delivering it.
What I find harder to swallow is the loaded Schnabel car mixed in with a train of regular freight.
Personally, I think those things should be banned from train shows. If I can’t smoke a cigarette in the hall out of respect for others, I don’t see why a few enthusiastic large scalers should be allowed to spew that acrid, sticky smoke in my face. It literally burns my eyes.
I know people who left the last Timonium show because you could cut that stuff with a knife in the layout hall.
Sorry, I know you’re just having fun, but next time I’m bringing the fattest, cheapest cigar I can find, and I’m FIGHTING BACK!!
(I might down a few beef and been burritos before the show, too… I bet you’re eyes will burn, too!)
Lee
Lee:
Not to worry. If the display doesn’t $ell product, it’ll disappear. Shows cost money.
Too hot, too cold, too expensive, to smelly, will result in poor crowds.
You can vote with your dollars; or go to car shows and look at the models.
Was that a frustrated steamer, or what? Every smoking diesel I’ve ever seen (and Alcos are hardly the only offenders!) was putting out a rolling, ground-hugging black cloud that would send birds to roost at noon.
I don’t doubt that a discreet cell-phone call to the local tobacco gestapo would have uniformed officers with citation books in hand on the scene in minutes! Even smoke generated by dry ice isn’t exempt, now that CO2 has become a toxic pollutant (by court fiat.)
As for the car show models, in Sin City they have LOTS of competition.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Chuck,Look closer…EMDs put out a blue smoke not black.
Unlike their highly sophisticated HO brethren the Lionel crowd will be quite happy with another smoking locomotive.After all these guys love the smell of choo-choo smoke,automation and other 3 rail gadgetry that we so eagerly frown upon from our high and mighty perch that we sit upon…
I saw a similar effect done with an 8500 class gas turbine at a show a couple of years ago. Not my cup of tea, but still pretty impressive.
However, Lee does have a point.
-George