Not sure it would give you colored smoke when it burnt . even if you used the paste type food coloring and mixed it with the smoke fluid.
Think back in the 60's we use to get some crstal of some type to get different colors in fires in fireplaces which would give colored smoke
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Even if you color it ink black, it will still puff out white.
Until it condenses on your layout... then it will be black again. Everywhere.
Don't bother trying.
Rob
ADCX RobEven if you color it ink black, it will still puff out white. Until it condenses on your layout... then it will be black again. Everywhere.Don't bother trying.Rob
Why Black?
In the day of real steam railroads, the exhaust would, should, be White with a tint of Gray. A nice hot fire with little damaging dark smoke mixed with exhausting steam from the cylinders. The exhausting steam exiting through the "Blast Pipe" to the "Smoke Stack" is what draws the fire. Steam locomotives were invented long before blowers were invented.
Black smoke is a sign of "over firing". Too much fresh coal on the fire or too rich a feed on oil burners. Tourist Railroad often do it for Photo Runs, it's what the public wants. Lionel engines always burn "clean".
Don U. TCA 73-5735
DMUinCTWhy Black?
I meant red. Or Regatta Blue.
I really didn't mean anything by black except that it was the darkest color anyone was likely to try(and the furthest from clear or white), and that the color of the medium won't affect the plume of mist emitting from the stack. It will, however, turn everything black(or red, or Regatta Blue)that it settles on.
Keep in mind that the stuff that comes out of a toy train smokestack is not really smoke, but a mist or fog of whatever substance was put into the smokestack.
Bob Nelson
What about the stuff thats inside those colored smoke bombs??
jadmiralWhat about the stuff thats inside those colored smoke bombs??
Unless you ignite it, it will still come out white.
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