Great video. I am obviously not using enough fluid. I have to ask this. If Lionel sells a replacement product (the wick) that is so much better than the original than why isn't it used in the new engine?
Chris
It could be a simple case of switch to reduce cost. The factory in China may have these pre cut wicks made and delivered by a different vendor than the 8" Lionel sells. OR it could be that the same vendor makes two kinds of wicks.
This "switch to reduce cost" has happened to our company many times without our knowledge and it cost us $$$ and loss of customers due to component failure in the field. It took me and a colleague of mine about 6 months to figure out the "strange field failures" till we traced it down to two resistors spec'd (USA) at 5% and the factory(China) replaced it with a !0% ...
Just guessing 
