How Do You Make A Toy Train Smoke?
Most scale model toy trains have a smoke unit, if smoking is appropriate for the particular type of locomotive. Those units require either pellets that heat over the locomotive headlight bulb, or liquid that heats within the smoke unit. It is not recommended to convert a non-smoking locomotive to smoke, since heating fluid in a locomotive that may be made from inappropriate materials could be a fire hazard. And you certainly wouldn’t want to see a diesel engine running down the track with smoke pouring from under it. Remove the body cover from the locomotive, exposing the smoke unit beneath the smokestack. Clean the reservoir for the pellet or fluid. With a screwdriver or knife, scrape out any old pellet or smoke fluid residue. Fill the reservoir with a small amount of fiberglass, if your locomotive is an old Lionel and you are converting from pellets to fluid. This conversion is recommended, since the pellets haven’t been manufactured for 40 years, and they’ve become scarce and expens
