American Flyer had four types of Smoke and
Choo Choo Units. The first type was introduced
in 1946, it is the Smoke in Tender type,
and denoted by S.I.T. The smoke unit is in
the tender, or what some people refer to
as the coal car, behind the engine. The smoke
in tender unit comes in 2 version, bellows
and cylinder. Bellows units can be repaired
with new bellows material or converted to
cylinder style.
The second type is a Smoke in Boiler unit.
It is in the boiler or main part of a steam
engine. It was used on the majority of steam
locomotives. There are 2 versions, the early
version has two chambers, an upper and lower,
there is a plate on the bottom of the unit
held in by screws. The later version has
only one chamber, the smoke wick and coil
are located in a single chamber with no bottom
plate. In general, 3 digit engines have dual
chamber units and 5 digit engines have single
chamber units.
The third type is also a boiler mounted unit,
but is smaller and used in the Docksider
and Franklin and Washington engines, and
also the HO engines.
The forth type, also a boiler mounted unit,
was used on the Casey Jones style, Southern
engine.
Replacement wick and wire coil are available
for all units. The S.I.T. units and the boiler
mounted units, except for the Docksider style,
use the # K61D.
All types were designed to use a liquid smoke
fluid. The fluid was sold in either small
soft red ampules or bottles. Unlike Lionel, American Flyer never used
smoke pellets.
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