STEAMday Sunday 10/20/2024 edition

My long awaited new purchase, Lionel Legacy A5. For a Legacy engine, it surpasses a surprising level of detail, especially over my Lionel Legacy B&O 0-8-0. It runs smoothly, with excellent smoke and sounds. Well worth the wait.

Gene

@Jim Teeple posted:

Gorgeous steamer and layout, Jim.

In 1928, Alco built five D-1a 4-6-6T bi-directional steam locomotives for use in commuter service on the Boston & Albany Railroad between South Station in Boston and the suburbs. One of the routes on which these engines ran was a circuit – outbound on the main line to Riverside, inbound on the Highland Branch to South Station, and in the opposite direction. These double-ended engines didn’t have to be turned at the end of a run.

The tank engines had 63-inch drivers, ran at 215 psi boiler pressure, weighed 352,000 pounds, and developed 41,600 pounds tractive effort. They were the biggest tank engines ever to run in the United States and were designed for rapid acceleration.

K-Line delivered the first O gauge model of a B&A 4-6-6T tank engine with TMCC in 2005. Lionel acquired the tooling and made a Legacy version in 2020. I own examples of each but, unfortunately, I don’t have B&A passenger cars, so the photos and videos show B&A #400 on my 12’-by-8’ layout pulling a wood passenger car with truss rods that I built from a kit by Labelle woodworking of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

MELGAR

@Genemed posted:

My long awaited new purchase, Lionel Legacy A5. For a Legacy engine, it surpasses a surprising level of detail especially over my Lionel Legacy B&O 0-8-0. It runs smoothly, with excellent smoke and sounds. Well worth the wait.

Gene

What a terrific A5 and layout you also have, Gene.

Nice to see that this thread is starting to build up a head of steam.

Melgar, as we all know, everything you do on the Forum greatly enriches it.
Love that Boston and Albany steamer,

Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

What a terrific A5 and layout you also have, Gene.

Nice to see that this thread is starting to build up a head of steam.

Thank you Arnold.

Gene

A gift from a friend - a resstored Gilbert Flyer 326  Hudson.  What I always wanted as a boy when I had Flyer growing up.

Hello StDaySun people!  My steamer of the day is my Atlas New Haven 0-6-0 no. 2334.  This engine was updated to MTH PS3 after I damaged the original (troublesome) tether.

No. 2334 is pulling one of my favorite trains, a beer train, featuring an Atlas “Hanley’s Ale” reefer.  My wife didn’t object to the purchase of this car because her father and brother were both named James Hanley!  Alas, neither one of them was a brewer, her father was a firefighter and her brother was a periodontist.

John

PW Lionel K4 pulling U.S. Army troop train

Arnold, Thanks for getting up a head of steam this morning. Here is my Lionel consolidation that I bought blank from Mr Muffin’s trains. He sent it to Harry Heinkel to be lettered PRSL and be lightly weathered. Here it is with a string of RMT Sand cars that I picked up from Larry at Holly Beach Trains at YORK on Thursday.

@pennsyfan posted:

Arnold, Thanks for getting up a head of steam this morning. Here is my Lionel consolidation that I bought blank from Mr Muffin’s trains. He sent it to Harry Heinkel to be lettered PRSL and be lightly weathered. Here it is with a string of RMT Sand cars that I picked up from Larry at Holly Beach Trains at YORK on Thursday.

Looks good Bob!

Happy SteamDay Sunday!

Been running my Lionchief +2.0 Reading 0-6-0t. These little buggers are a blast to run. Lionel did a great job with these BTW. The tooling is the same as their older 0-6-0t conventional models. I have a Santa Fe model.
This engine runs with either the universal remote or the Cab3/ Lionchief apps. App control offers more features and better speed control. The sound set includes freight yard sounds too.

Bob

@Sitka posted:

Looks good Bob!

Thank you!

@Genemed posted:

My long awaited new purchase, Lionel Legacy A5. For a Legacy engine, it surpasses a surprising level of detail, especially over my Lionel Legacy B&O 0-8-0. It runs smoothly, with excellent smoke and sounds. Well worth the wait.

Gene

Looks great Gene. I'm resisting the temptation for now. Really tough considering that Lionel included a LIRR model in this run.

Bob

@RSJB18 posted:

Happy SteamDay Sunday!

Been running my Lionchief +2.0 Reading 0-6-0t. These little buggers are a blast to run. Lionel did a great job with these BTW.

Bob

They certainly are Bob, especially for the price. I feel the same about my LV #126.

Gene

@RSJB18 posted:

Looks great Gene. I'm resisting the temptation for now. Really tough considering that Lionel included a LIRR model in this run.

Bob

Thanks Bob. Now that I’m slowly finishing up the yard/turntable layout change, I can utilize my train budget for engines and misc. rolling stock that catches my eye.

Gene

Here are a pair of Brimtoy (UK) steamers for you.  The red "Britania" 4-6-0 (as lithographed) from the post war period, likely the 1950's and the "Silver Streak" a pre-war representation of the "Jubilee" locomotive from 1936-37, IRL this locomotive was used to  celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary in 1935.   Both are clockwork and O gauge and they both still operate.  They are posed on either side of the Brimtoy small signal box which has its roots in pre-war but was produced until about 1951.

Best Wishes, Don

Don McErlean, I'm a postwar and modern train guy, but I really enjoy seeing the unusual pieces in your great collection.  It's an education for me.  Keep em coming!

John

@Steam Crazy-John thank you for that compliment.  I am glad you enjoy the pictures.

Best Wishes, Don

@Steam Crazy posted:

Don McErlean, I'm a postwar and modern train guy, but I really enjoy seeing the unusual pieces in your great collection.  It's an education for me.  Keep em coming!

John

@Steam Crazy @Don McErlean

I agree.  I am modern command only, but I have said before it if fun to see and read Don's posts.  Reminds me of when I ran trains with my brother on his prewar Marx layouts.

Running my newer Legacy Consolidation on my almost completed ceiling layout. Running a few random piece rolling stock as most of my stuff is still packed away from our move 3 years ago.