Random Images of Steam Engines

Love the New York Central Ten Wheelers on the "Put".  They were pretty hefty, as 4-6-0's went, including double fire box doors, indicating that some designer thought they had a mighty big grate area !   (per my PSC model of the locomotive)

ALL GREAT steamers - I have waited my lifetime for a Long Island G5 to be restored! I am 75 and rode behind those in the 40's to my grandfather's house in Hicksville. When we arrived at Hicksville from Jamaica, as a little boy, I marveled at those HUGE drivers! I also remember the heat from the boiler as the engine pulled past me and my parents on the platform at Jamaica! Great memories that made me a lifelong train buff!  :-)

IRM's 1630:

1630 out in the real world:

Rusty

How about a ten wheeler with 57" driver for switching?

The PRR K4 Torpedo is a favorite of mine.  It looked like this when it first rolled off the line:

It looked like this in the late 40s before the fairings were removed:

Because I model the late 40s, I'm working on my Weaver model of this engine to get it to look Like it did in the 40s.  I've got a ways to go.

Here’s N&W 1134 in Portsmouth VA:

A shame that SAL couldn’t have saved a steamer to put in its place.

UP 4000 being fired up for the first time at Alco. Would be like late July or early August 1941.

The V scribed on the smokebox cover was for Victory as Churchill started flashing that sign in early July.

Alongside the Big Boys Alco was also building tanks for Great Britain.

An 1880's photograph of three Calumet and Hecla Mining Company Mason 0-6-4T's.  The Calumet and Hecla was a major producer of Copper in Michigan's Keweenaw peninsula through the 1960's.  The Mason bogies pictured were the #3 "Torch Lake" at the far right, and the #4 "Raymbault" and #5 "Red Jacket" (Unsure of the order of those two).  They hauled rock trains to the smelter for many years on the Hecla and Torch Lake Railroad.  Raymbault, Red Jacket and several other locomotives were scrapped for the metal drives of World War Two, but Torch Lake was hidden away in a shed until 1969 when it was donated to the Henry Ford Museum.  Torch Lake, built in 1873, is still in operation in Dearborn, Michigan where it pulls trains at Greenfield Village during the summer months.

The photo above shows the locomotives in their as-built configuration.  They were 4'-1" gauge locomotives at the time.  Following a roundhouse fire, they were rebuilt and converted to standard gauge with a less ornate appearance.  Torch Lake is pretty much as it was retired, but an air compressor and control valves were added to supply and control the brake system on the passenger cars at Greenfield Village, which it didn't have in service.

Kelly Anderson posted:

Steamer posted:

Anyone know the story with this engine?  Shiny and clean, but with all moving parts except the side rods removed (including the power reverse and bell), but she still has her headlight and generator.

Is she being sent to be a stationary boiler?  If so, it must be permanent to justify stripping her so completely, but then why leave the headlight?

Kelly it said with the pic "PRR L1s #8260 at Medows, NJ 9-4-55"

that was late for Pennsy steam, so I doubt she was being overhauled or prettied up. The stationary boiler might be right, but why clean her up? Maybe she was being scavenged for spares, but again too clean, unless she had been overhauled and stored.

The tender came from ACLs class R1 4-8-4, doghouse was added by N&W I believe.