Smoke unit for Rotary Snowplow

[submmbob]

A while back I purchased an MTH Railking Rotary Snowplow. Neat unit w/ lights and moving cutter blades. The base for the model appears to be a wood sided bunkhouse or work car. Top details are  a walkway, brake wheel, and a stove pipe.

After being introduced to a K-Line smoke unit w/ fan that fits into the Plymouth switcher by a friend on the forum here, I came up w/ an idea. Why not see if I could install this unit w/ a new smoke stack and maybe even add some interior details?

Here's the snowplow in it's original configuration:

Here's a test fit on the smoke unit. I plan on mounting the unit on spacers on top of the light board bracket.

Here's the resin cast boiler detail kit tried on for size. I'm going to need to trim off some of the boiler front to make it fit. Once trimmed it should be sitting underneath the rear light evenly spaced between the rear windows.

Once the smoke unit and boiler are mounted, I'll probably need to insulate the roof above the smoke unit, as it gets fairly warm.

Any thoughts or additional ideas?

This will be a semi long-term project so I'll keep you posted.

Bob

[rtraincollector]

Just a strange thought ( I don't know the unit so if it does this sorry) but wonder since its fan driven if you couldn't add something to make it blow smoke out threw the blades to simulate snow being thrown out the blades.

[gunrunnerjohn]

I have a couple of MTH smoking tank cars, they have fan driven units in them.  The bodies are plastic, and they don't get warm at all.  The smoke unit is mounted right underneath the top, when you pop the lid it's right there.