What a handsome rascal!
Sid, has anyone ever considered using a miniature simple compressed air system of some type to give the whistle steam more 'oomph'? As nice as this locomotive is, and like many others out there, the steam effect greatly lacks the 'pressure' that steam would produce as the whistle is sounded. So many have weak smoke that just 'wafts' out. After all, it is the force of the steam that creates the sound in the real locomotives!
Was thinking a small air tank might could be incorporated that somehow would release some pressure to drive the smoke instead of the fans now common in all of our models. The little tank could be any shape to fit the space and use an external hand pump to fill it through a small valve out of sight. Is this possible or feasible?
