In my case, it simply overflowed, therefore probably getting on some electrical component and shorting it out...that's my theory, anyway. Just need to know what people have been able to do to fix this.

Put too much smoke oil in my bachman h0 scale engine, and it stopped running at all. Anyone have advice for fixing this? A bath in denatured alcohol? Dismantling and wiping out?

Can you stick somehousehold fluid in it in order to keep that from happening, even if it doesn't produce the desired smoke? If so, what? It'll be a couple of days before the stuff arrives...

Wait, you mean I have to run it with smoke oil in it?

It may already be burned out, my kid ran it for a couple of hours this morning.

Thanks for helping me work this out!

Where do I get fluid for it? Are they all the same, or do I need to determine some specific brand or chemical?

SFb: What would a "smoke pan" look like? I shined a light in the stack, and there is a white, square sort of container with a coiled wire poking down into it, which certainly could be an oil holder and heating element, but I am completely speculating based on the context of what you said.

Tylerf: I had been speculating that there was left-over fluid. There was little obvious odor...it didn't smell like burning dust/wiring, but it didn't smell like the 0-scale smoking trains I've seen in the past, either.

I have no idea whether it's safe to keep running this train...it's my son's favorite engine, he gave up his entire birthday party to finance having it as his only real gift, and now he's desperate to run it ASAP, but it'd be an expensive disaster if it burned out.

I just bought an old Bachmann  N&W J 4-8-4, not a new DCC one, and when it slows to a stop, you can often see a whisp of smoke coming from its stack. Did this train come with the ability to smoke, or it possible that this is a problem with dust or wiring overheating?

I'm leery of running it, until I determine whether I'm burning it up, or just need to buy some oil to make it smoke more...