DD35A Diesel Locomotive - Lionel

Locomotive basics
Adding smoke fluid to your locomotive’s smoke generators
Your locomotive is equipped with two smoke generators that produce safe, clean, white smoke
during operation. Add 10-20 drops to each stack (shown in Figure 3) to prime the unit the first
time you run the locomotive or after being stored for an extended period of time, and then add 10
to 20 drops to refill when smoke production decreases. When refilling, DO NOT EXCEED 20 DROPS
as this can cause your smoke units to become oversaturated allowing leakage onto the electronics.
Note that operating your locomotive's smoke units without smoke fluid will cause damage to the
heating elements.
If you prefer to operate your locomotive without smoke, locate the smoke unit switches and slide
them to the NO SMK position. Refer to Figure 4 on page 8 for the location of the switches. Note that
the smoke units are controlled independently so that you can run the locomotive with only one
smoke unit in operation.
Note!
For best performance, we recommend using Lionel smoke fluid only. Do NOT use
smoke fluid from ready-to-run train sets.
Add fluid to either
exhaust stack.
FRONT
Figure 3. Smoke fluid locations
REAR
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