STEAM LOCOMOTIVES - Let's See Them!

@Madockawando posted:

I'll take them!

Dido!

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

They're all buried with me, I'm getting the special elephant sized coffin!

Sure why not take it with you. In one place they use Legacy to run the trains, the other place they use DCS. So take the remote you think you will need.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

They're all buried with me, I'm getting the special elephant sized coffin!

A genuine love of trains. How insightful.

Well I commented on the Juice Box Thread so I guess I need to add a little smoke and fire to this one also.

A little of my Rail King Stable

My Premier "A"

A little of my MTH Premier Stable

A little Postwar Magic 671

More Postwar magic 746

my Postwar 2046

And more Postwar Magic 2055 & 2065

and more Postwar magic 2026

and some more Postwar 1665

My late Cousins Postwar 736 been in the family since new around 1950

Postwar 2056

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

I think it's more like no willpower!   I can't resist a new color.

A friend of mine always tells me he has a TON of willpower, says he's never used any of it!

Boy I think @Dave_C has more Rutland engines than the Rutland actually had.

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@superwarp1 posted:

Boy I think @Dave_C has more Rutland engines than the Rutland actually had.

I wish I had some, I’m always looking to run New England and Canadian road names

@rtr12 posted:

A friend of mine always tells me he has a TON of willpower, says he's never used any of it!

I think that's exactly my problem!

Great thread Guys! 

The boys came out for a family portrait.  The Lionel 736 2-8-4 Berkshire was a beast and often was the biggest steam engine in the catalog in the 1950s and 1960s.  While I never had one as a kid, I made up for it starting in 2009.  In the first picture, the first four on the left are vintage 736s, the loco on the far right is a Conventional Classic   726 from several years ago.

In the picture below is a Lionel 726 that I acquired at York in 2014. The main difference between the 726 and the 736 is that the 736 has magnatraction, while the 726 has more realistic looking wheels. 

Here is one I worked on some time back.

S.Islander

@Former Member posted:

Great thread Guys!

The boys came out for a family portrait.  The Lionel 736 2-8-4 Berkshire was a beast and often was the biggest steam engine in the catalog in the 1950s and 1960s.  While I never had one as a kid, I made up for it starting in 2009.  In the first picture, the first four on the left are vintage 736s, the loco on the far right is a Conventional Classic   726 from several years ago.

In the picture below is a Lionel 726 that I acquired at York in 2014. The main difference between the 726 and the 736 is that the 736 has magnatraction, while the 726 has more realistic looking wheels.

That is an incredible collection of postwar steam. Like an old catalog cover.

Profiles of postwar 2065 ( click on photo to enlarge )

First, East meets West…

Next, the long and short of it!!!

Boy I think @Dave_C has more Rutland engines than the Rutland actually had.

2 out 3 of the K1 Pacifics, 4 out of 10 of the Ten Wheelers, 4 out of 7 Mikados, got both of the 0-8-0’s covered. Only one Consolidation but Lionel’s doing a Western Pacific with white striping and a correct Rutland rd. Number.
Just missing a Mountain. Unless Scott offers one there’s just nothing out there close enough. Shame because it was a real looker.

The beginning of my decent into madness (Steam Edition)…

@trumpettrain posted:

Profiles of postwar 2065 ( click on photo to enlarge )

Looks great! I never imagined that an old 2065 could look so good.

Here’s almost all of my steam fleet. A mixture of new, old, and somewhere in between.

Here are some of my modern and Post War locos,see descriptions below.

Some Southern Steam.

Sure - no problem - here's a few...

I think mad dock is trying to make a point.  While I agree with csam, I can see that the better way to approach this is to repeat photos as many times as possible, in hopes that management will disable the "reply with quote" button.  So, good on you, mad.  Keep doing it.

Meantime, how about one without paint?

Or maybe one in primer?  I actually saw an SP Consolidation in this color in the Mexicali yards.

My custom Erie stuff…Tom

Postwar Steam

One more bare loco and I will leave you guys alone

I love steam locomotives. Two of my favorites on our layout are Shay geared engines. Here are two Shays, a 3 truck and a 2 truck, pulling some log cars at Soap Creek Pass on our layout.

That is cool.  Love those trees.

My 385E.

Fantasy Santa Fe Blue Goose

@FrankRazz posted:

Fantasy Santa Fe Blue Goose

Beautifully done

Here are a few

https://youtu.be/61oraySHY8A

Wow Joe, I’m impressed.  I honestly didn’t know how cool those engines are.  You did a fine job showing all the features of the different models.  I like it!

@trumpettrain posted:

Profiles of postwar 2065 ( click on photo to enlarge )

You are certainly getting to be a MASTER at the lighting in your photos Patrick.     Excellent photos that will make a great contribution to  "THE  BOOK ." 

I guess all of us who thought we might be threatened by becoming packrats got buried in this avalanche!  l hope the Ski Patrol can find me at the bottom of this pile!   But others above are road specific as l,  and still are missing models they want.   Three rail models l want have been made in two rail and HO.  I hope this thread goes on and on to picture the many,  many wild and wonderful steamers that ran through history.

@colorado hirailer posted:

I guess all of us who thought we might be threatened by becoming packrats got buried in this avalanche!  l hope the Ski Patrol can find me at the bottom of this pile!   But others above are road specific as l,  and still are missing models they want.   Three rail models l want have been made in two rail and HO.  I hope this thread goes on and on to picture the many,  many wild and wonderful steamers that ran through history.

Packrats??? I must respectfully disagree… we are curators of incomplete collections of indeterminate size containing scale and non-scale railroad models As for the Ski Patrol, I don’t think they have big enough shovels

Rusty

Very well stated Paul!  Here are some of mine lined up for a Front End Friday a while back.

Here's are some more from the FEF photo shoot.

@coach joe posted:

Very well stated Paul!  Here are some of mine lined up for a Front End Friday a while back.

Nice shot, Joe. Three of my favorite NYC steamers in the middle!!!

My 3rd rail Y6 out for a spin.