New Addition to the Layout! Western Maryland GP7

If you still hear the fan running chances are it needs more fluid. Legacy smoke units are extremely thirsty and these dual outlets make for a long way for the fluid to get down into the unit.

I'm not sure how many times you added fluid in 3 hours, but I've found that 15 or so drops is usually only good for 5 or MAYBE 10 minutes at most, thats probably a stretch though.

Its also a good idea to gently blow down one of the stacks after adding fluid, I usually hold one finger over the opposite stack at the same time.

Marty E did a nice help page on this: http://martye.com/TipsandTricks/TipsandTrick4.htm

Hi Rick,

Thanks for the tip, but unfortunately I no longer hear a fan running. 

Like I said I'm not really upset about it since I'm used to Lionel smoke unit fans quitting! 

I have a new smoke unit fan on order from my LHS for my legacy mikado from a few years ago. I agree with you though, smoke coming out of diesels is kind of weird to me.

I really like that paint scheme!! Sharp.

I'm a big fan of the Legacy GP7's. Have/had a few.

Very nice. Enjoy your new purchase.

I'm a big fan is that either, but this one looked nice.

Harry and Lionel Grandpa,

Thanks for backing me up on smoke coming from diesels! 

I could have made the lemons (aka the smoke unit stopping) ruin the purchase, but smoke units in my book are not the end factor for a purchase and are inherently faulty thus, with Lionel, at least I expect them to fail. 

Thanks for all the kind words fellas! 

Sharp is an excellent choice of words! I saw this on sale at my LHS for 320 (before tax) and considering today's prices for just a GP9, a new GP7 today couldn't be any better so I bit! 

The yellow winged striping in the front is the eye catcher for me! 

Really nice Mike. Great paint scheme and the Legacy slow speed and sound package is tough to beat.

We have the UP 107 and it gets plenty of run time. 

If you ever do decide to replace the smoke unit, I would suggest, whenever refilling, to remove the roof cap and the internal plastic funnel so you can inject the fluid directly into the smoke unit batting.

The funnel supplying the twin stacks just doesn't seem to let the fluid get to the actual batting very well. It ususally seeps everywhere.

I agree these GP7s should get plenty of run time! Fantastic units!

Thank you for the suggestion! Unfortunately though, Lionel only made one "hatch" removable. Thus on my locomotive at least you have to take the entire body off to get at most of the inside parts.

I know for sure its the fan since the element still wisps out smoke slowly but surely. For now I have the smoke switch turned off for the same reasons I stated above. White smoke coming out of a diesel is NOT GOOD or prototypical! 

Congrats Mike! My Lionel SD40-2's smoke unit isn't the best ethier but what tgere is nothing you can do except complain. Have fun with it!

Sweet purchase Mike!

The WM is one of my favorite railroads! Enjoy it!