I have the MTH 2001 Modern Freight Set and have a question about the Hudson locomotive that came with it. It's number is 5320. Here is the picture I took with my digital camera.



I had to place the loc on the track and let it set to recharge the battery because it would not go out of neutral. After the recharge I remembered that the smoke unit should have been turned off. The surprise I got is there was no switch to turn off the smoke. The place was there on the loc but no switch.

The question I have is this the way this particular locomotive was manufactured or was the smoke on/off switch left off? I had added smoke fluid when I discovered this. Looking down the smoke stack I can see what looks like the wick. The loc does not smoke and I am assuming that the smoke unit is in the off mode.

Jim Troutman

some of these had the smoke shut off on the tender. check

LIRR

You were right. The switch was in the tender. MTH sure made this one confusing. The switch just said on/off. No other identification.

Thanks for your help.

Jim Troutman

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