The major issue with the Lindbergh Atlantic was the gasket around the smoke unit for the smokestack was oversized and prevented the smoke from going up the stack. I bought this engine when ot was first issues and it made about four trips to Lionel for both the stack smoke or the whistle smoke or both. On the forth trip to Lionel Mike Reagan called me to tell me they were refunding my purchased price because they could not get the smoke to correctly work.
I already bought the two car passenger set so I purchased another E6 Lindbergh off the internet. First time I ran it no whistle smoke so off again to Lionel. When I got it back no stack smoke or whistle smoke. Sent it back to Lionel but emailed Mike Reagan about all my problems with the smoke, He responded and said he would personally fix my engine. Got it back and both stack and whistle smoke worked great and till today still works. The engine runs great, has great sound and never had any other issues.
Long story short if you have any smoke issues send the engine to Mike Reagan at Trainworks and he will take care of it.
JohnB
