I have used any number of different methods of animation when building model railroads including movement, sound and light. I have not, however, used smoke… that is until now. The fairly recent advent of smokeless cigarettes, also called e-cigarettes, e-cigs or vapor cigarettes, has provided an opportunity for us to make small, inexpensive and quite impressive smoke machines. I have been doing some experiments and have come up with a fairly simple method to create a good bit of smoke that can be turned on or off at will. The smoke maker shown here is appropriate for creating smoking pumpkins on Halloween, getting a chimney to smoke on a Christmas diorama or to provide realistic smoke stack smoke from a factory on a model railroad. It could also be used to have smoke emanate from a burning building, car or airplane crash or a campfire. To turn an e-cigarette int

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