Mark from Menards, Can we get an O Scale Steam Shovel?

Is what is pictured a STEAM shovel, which l might buy, or a more modern post WWII diesel?

Good point; that is definatly modern era design.  I don't even know what to call it....a diesel steam shovel? 

The boom and frame would make for a good start on a steamer bash anyhow.

Type into Google: "Bucyrus-Erie steam shovel", and you will find your answers. Lots of pics! By the way, the steam shovels are the ones with the chimneys sticking up in the air, with black smoke belching out. I've only ever seen one B-E steam shovel in my life, and it was at the Kutztown Folk Festival in early July in Kutztown PA. Was really wild to watch all that mechanical movement.

Steam Forever

   John

Exhaust pipes are easy to add. On the real shovel the whole top of the boiler protrudes from the top of the roof. The roofs are also arched instead of flat like mine but it gets the job done.

I grew up in the fifties, and there were "real" steam shovels in use then (with boiler, smokebox and chimney). However, when diesel powered shovels came into use, we continued to call them "steam shovels". The same thing occurred with "steam rollers". Its hard to break old habits.

The Lionel model show in the photos here, is a fairly accurate model of a P&H, diesel-powered shovel. It fits right into the era between about 1950 and the mid 1980's. Keep an eye on Ebay. They show up there quite often, at very reasonable prices. For some reason, a shovel in a Lionel box, usually sells for way more that a shovel already assembled and sitting on a flatcar. 

I would like one too!

I would like this one

Now that's a steam shovel 

jay jay posted:

I grew up in the fifties, and there were "real" steam shovels in use then (with boiler, smokebox and chimney). However, when diesel powered shovels came into use, we continued to call them "steam shovels". The same thing occurred with "steam rollers". Its hard to break old habits.

Yep, so did we in our neighborhood.

Rusty

Lionel's are on ebay every week for 15 - 20 bucks. 

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Above link is 8.99!

Put me on the want list for a STEAM POWERED ERIE steam shovel not the diesel version like lionels

Something like this ?

Jesse   TCA  12-68275

texastrain posted:

Something like this ?

Jesse   TCA  12-68275

Awesome.

Built by whom?

texastrain posted:

Something like this ?

Jesse   TCA  12-68275

Very nice, this what we need. Thank you, made my day. Is it scratch built?

He posted on that scale gem in depth before. It's his baby  

  The small modern side cab isn't as tough to find obviously. 

    I'd like to see an early one done onately as some steam tractors, maybe even a woody.

  Despite what I'd like in a cab, whats really lacking IS the shovel's boom style.

Crawler load  or car, you'd likely sell both, any size, lol.

   As a kid, summer before 1st grade, I started an old left hand slanted cab diesel drop bottom shovel that had been sunk to the tred tops in a field behind our house. Abandonded now, rusting deeply in a mashy meadow, glass vandalised by a neighbor kid,, and there my whole short life,, sinking more each year, and never ran for all the men that tried. It was our playground equipment when the field got soggy. The cab was eventually left unlocked, and  I turned the key to off one day, and it sat a month or two or three. Turns out the cells weren't dead just drained and it instantly started the next time I jumped in and turned the key on. An accident, I was about to give it my usual go to start it, but wasn't 100% ready.  Knowing more today, it was very very hot out and I have to imagine there was vapor pressure and actually fired off fumes and an old fuel charge via glow element, I don't recall hearing the starter, just putt putts, then a rumble and black clouds till it warmed. 

  I sat there grinning till the noise and black smoke clouds got the neighbors in an uproar..Gramps topped the fluids later and now running again, the city removed it a few days later, much to the dismay of the owners who suddenly wanted it back. (That guy swore alot when we told him where it went, lol).

  I had neutral and throttle figured out long before that and was glad nobody else had been playing there, but that was the only danger really. It was just a big tractor to me. Regardless I sat down gingerly that night after "a little talk with Dad"   

There's a Lionel kit for 17.95 on ebay at the moment. Roo.

Let me look further into my boxes and tubs for the steam shovel.  As you can tell by the dates in the date stamps, I have had for a while and other the pics I took for inventory file, will have to get info from box when I find it.  But, I will post asap.

Jesse