@gunrunnerjohn posted:
This is a truly dumb design, I wonder what genius at Lionel came up with this idea!
That's a little harsh...
Well it's been there since the run of PRR #6498 2-10-4 Texas class. I have that locomotive and repacked the smoke unit once. Took me a long time to get it where the chuffing unit was forcing smoke from the cylinder steam hole. Trial and error. That was 2011 when that was released so they've been around for a while. I think Mike helped me but I can't remember what the solution was. @Mikado might know some tricks to help yinz guys.