--- In [email protected], "richgajnak" <rustytraque@...> wrote:
>
> Couple of quick points:
>
> --- In [email protected], "Ed" <Loizeaux@> wrote:
> > You are right -- the prototype has large billows of puffing smoke. Most
> > models have wispy wimpy white (not dark) smoke that is a poor
> > representation of the real thing.
>
> Smoke on a steam locomotive indicates poor combustion. Ideally, the fireman
> should have a light haze coming out of the stack, fairly close to the white
> stuff than spews out of models.
>
> Of course, in the real world, conditions cange often and visible billows of
> dark smoke happened quite frequently.
>
> I admit, when I fired at a railroad museum, we would "showboat" by making
> smoke for the admiring masses, but running out in the boonies away form the
> general public, I tried to keep my stack as clean as possible.
>
> > Yes, I agree -- as long as accurate dimensions and slow smooth operation
> > are not sacrificed in the process. We should ask MTH and Lionel for better
> > smoking features. Perhaps a volume button and a color button -- black,
> > gray or white. Once it becomes realistic, I would agree it is a major
> > feature that will be much in demand. Right now, most scale modelers do not
> > care that much about smoke.
> >
> > Cheers....Ed L.
> >
> Black smoke was covered by the O gaugers several times. Smoke fliud doesn't
> lend itself to "tinting." In order to make black or dark gray smoke, you're
> going to need to have dark particulate matter coming out of the smoke units.
>
> It's bad enough cleaning the spew of the smoke fluid up. Do you really want
> prototypical soot all over your railroad and train room?
>
> Rich G(ajnak)
>
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