I sent for one of the 0-6-0's. Union Pacific, Vanderbilt oil tender. I just liked the way it looked, grey with black and silver. Now this is not a Spectrum and was not very expensive.
Did come with lights of course, and smoke. I don't really care about the smoke, but I thought that's fine. Comes with a little bottle of smoke oil.
It came today, put it on the track and it took off with a limp. One of the drivers is out of round, but it runs strong and was pulling seven freight cars and a caboose. So I thought I'll try the smoke. Poured in the 2 drops, nothing. Figured it had to warm up or something. Put in 2 or 3 more drops and upped the speed. Still nothing--then about twice each lap, it would shoot a stream of smoke about two feet in the air. So it's going around the track at a pretty good clip and all of a sudden, smoke starts pouring out in front of the right side drivers. Needless to say, I'm going to have to send it to Bachmann for repair or replacement, but how are these smoke systems supposed to work? I would think that the smoke should be coming out the stack rather than on one side.
Anyone know how they are supposed to work when they are working correctly? A fair amount of smoke? Just a little? Never had one before with this capability. I don't think I'll try it often or I'll be cleaning that smoke oil off of everything------
Did come with lights of course, and smoke. I don't really care about the smoke, but I thought that's fine. Comes with a little bottle of smoke oil.
It came today, put it on the track and it took off with a limp. One of the drivers is out of round, but it runs strong and was pulling seven freight cars and a caboose. So I thought I'll try the smoke. Poured in the 2 drops, nothing. Figured it had to warm up or something. Put in 2 or 3 more drops and upped the speed. Still nothing--then about twice each lap, it would shoot a stream of smoke about two feet in the air. So it's going around the track at a pretty good clip and all of a sudden, smoke starts pouring out in front of the right side drivers. Needless to say, I'm going to have to send it to Bachmann for repair or replacement, but how are these smoke systems supposed to work? I would think that the smoke should be coming out the stack rather than on one side.
Anyone know how they are supposed to work when they are working correctly? A fair amount of smoke? Just a little? Never had one before with this capability. I don't think I'll try it often or I'll be cleaning that smoke oil off of everything------