STEAMday Sunday (11/17/2024 edition)

An outdoor shot from April 2010.......a time between layouts.....

Have a great and safe week, folks!

Peter

Thank you Arnold for the steam up this morning. Happy STEAMday Sunday to all. Here is my Lionel Legacy PRR 2-10-4 running with the Broadway Limited

Good morning, steam fans and thanks, Arnold, for getting us rolling!  I’m having so much fun with my “new” B&M Mogul dummy I’ve decided to feature it again today.

B&M Mogul no. 1455 has been assigned to a railfan trip originating at North Station in Boston to Maine Central’s Mountain Division in NH.  No. 1455 will pul the train to Bartlett, NH, where a helper will be required to move the train over Crawford Notch to Fabyan Station.  B&M 0-8-0 no. 613 is the designated helper on this trip.  The railfans will soon be treated to some of the most beautiful mountain scenery in the USA!

The inspiration for this post is my favorite train video, NE Glory vol. 1, Mountain Division, by Herron Rail Video.  This video shows a fan trip from Boston on the B&M and MEC steam over the Notch.  I highly recommend it to fans of the B&M/MEC!

John

Lionel LV #126 with the newly purchased bobber caboose. It’s pulling my only traditional boxcar, which seems to pair well size wise with the less than scale engine. This engine continues to be my go to when running trains. It would be a definite purchase if Lionel made these in the Legacy version.

Gene

MTH PREMIER BOSTON & MAINE 0-8-0 smokes it up while pulling a long mixed consist of Atlas-O steam era freight cars.

I’m a fan of Lionel’s 4-6-0 ten-wheeler steam locomotive models. They have a classic look based on a New York Central F-12 prototype and are the right size for my 10’-by-5’ (O-54) and 12’-by-8’ (O-72) layouts. Until recently, I had four – one each from the New Haven, Boston & Maine, Boston & Albany, and New York Central railroads. This week, I added a model of New York Central #1244 – (SKU 2431660).

Unlike some of my earlier Lionel ten-wheelers, the colors are realistic on #1244. The boiler is flat black, the smokebox is a dark metallic-graphite, the running gear is tarnished black, and the silver color of the cylinder and valve-chest heads sets them apart from the rest of the model. The tender has been upgraded with a load of real coal and the gauges and valves on the boiler backhead are nicely detailed (see last photo). The whistle, bell, and locomotive sounds are excellent, and slow-speed operation is very smooth under conventional control.

New York Central #1244 was built by Alco in November 1907 and began service on the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad as Class F-2e #2118. It was reclassified to NYC Class F-12e and renumbered #831 when superheated in February 1916. Weight was 208,000 pounds with 31,900 pounds tractive effort at steam pressure 200 pounds-per-square-inch with 69-inch driving wheels. It was renumbered to #1244 in 1948 and retired in February 1952.

Ten-wheelers hauled fast passenger trains at the beginning of the 20^th Century but the introduction of heavy steel passenger cars required more powerful locomotives so the ten-wheelers were relegated to secondary status as 4-6-2 Pacific types entered service.

Videos show #1244 pulling a wood passenger car that I built from a kit by Labelle Woodworking - similar to wood cars hauled by ten-wheelers when they first went into service.

Addendum: Arnold Cribari may be interested to know that, like many other NYC ten-wheelers, #1244 ran on the Putnam Division, as shown by a photograph in New York Central's Later Power 1910-1968 by Alvin Staufer and Edward L. May...

MELGAR

@Steam Crazy posted:

Good morning, steam fans and thanks, Arnold, for getting us rolling!  I’m having so much fun with my “new” B&M Mogul dummy I’ve decided to feature it again today.

B&M Mogul no. 1455 has been assigned to a railfan trip originating at North Station in Boston to Maine Central’s Mountain Division in NH.  No. 1455 will pul the train to Bartlett, NH, where a helper will be required to move the train over Crawford Notch to Fabyan Station.  B&M 0-8-0 no. 613 is the designated helper on this trip.  The railfans will soon be treated to some of the most beautiful mountain scenery in the USA!

The inspiration for this post is my favorite train video, NE Glory vol. 1, Mountain Division, by Herron Rail Video.  This video shows a fan trip from Boston on the B&M and MEC steam over the Notch.  I highly recommend it to fans of the B&M/MEC!

John

That’s a cool video John, with some serious smoke too!

Gene

The NYC JiE gets caught in an early season snow squall as it pulls into the North Main Street Station last night...

Happy STEAMday Sunday!

A pair of front ends this morning. Lionel 0-6-0 (PWC) and K-line 0-4-0 rounding the bend on the main.

Bob

@Genemed posted:

Lionel LV #126 with the newly purchased bobber caboose. It’s pulling my only traditional boxcar, which seems to pair well size wise with the less than scale engine. This engine continues to be my go to when running trains. It would be a definite purchase if Lionel made these in the Legacy version.

Gene

@Genemed,

Gene,

I believe Lionel’s model of the 0-6-0T is scale. The prototype seems to be a 1910 Alco industrial steam switcher shown in a drawing on page 32 of Model Railroader Cyclopedia – Volume 1 – Steam Locomotives, by Linn H. Westcott. It gives a length of about 32 feet (8 inches in 1:48 O scale) over coupler faces with 44-inch driving-wheel diameter. Lionel lists the length of its model as 8.5 inches.

MELGAR

Thanks Arnold for keeping the boiler hot and steamed up so we can roll this morning!  Here is a quick video of my Weaver scale brass B&0 -0-6-0.  I really love this engine!!  

I call this video " All Steamed Up and Nowhere To Go".  

In 1942, the Pennsy needed big freight but due to wartime restrictions was forced to use a C&O design.  The result was the  J1 2-10-4 which turned out to be a very successful fast freight engine that could pull lots of tonnage.

@Capetrainman posted:

The NYC JiE gets caught in an early season snow squall as it pulls into the North Main Street Station last night...

Nice shot Paul, make a 1000 piece puzzle out of that!

Have a good STEAMday Sunday all!

@MELGAR posted:

@Genemed,

Gene,

I believe Lionel’s model of the 0-6-0T is scale. The prototype seems to be a 1910 Alco industrial steam switcher shown in a drawing on page 32 of Model Railroader Cyclopedia – Volume 1 – Steam Locomotives, by Linn H. Westcott. It gives a length of about 32 feet (8 inches in 1:48 O scale) over coupler faces with 44-inch driving-wheel diameter. Lionel lists the length of its model as 8.5 inches.

MELGAR

Thank you very much Mel, I just assumed with it being a LC+2.0 it wasn’t true scale. The knowledge from members like you is what makes this forum great.

Gene

Here is the American Flyer (Chicago Flyer) type 401 from 1939-1940.  A 2-4-4 wheel arrangement and pared with the # 402/421 tender in the same years.  Shown pulling a consist of #404 coach and # 405 observation from 1939.

Best Wishes, hope your upcoming week goes well.

Don

Twilight on Southern Pacific’s Coast Route.  Have a nice Sunday, everyone.

A hopelessly lost New York Central & Hudson River 10-wheeler passes through the Poconos with a mixed freight…

Been working on my American Freedom train to get everything upgraded with flicker free LED lights.

This is the Bantam set offered by MTH many years ago and I've slowly added on to it. The original 14" passenger cars are hard to find.

ENJOY!

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Good morning and welcome to today’s edition of STEAMday Sunday, the place to post photos and videos, and to discuss, steam locomotives of all kinds. When you do so, please remember to post only those photos and videos you have taken or those in which you have obtained the written permission of the owner to post.

Having visited the magnificent O gauge train layout of the New Jersey HiRailers in Patterson, NJ this past Wednesday, I thought I would post this video of my MTH PS2 Blue Comet Pacific (4-6-2) and Blue Comet passenger cars:

I believe the prototype of the Blue Comet ran from Northern New Jersey to the Atlantic City area.

Here is a close up photo of the front of my MTH model of the locomotive:

Now, let’s see the steamers you would like to share today. Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari

Arnold:

You are correct. The comet ran from Communipaw in Jersey City to Atlantic City from February 21, 1929 to September 27, 1941. It was the Central Railroad of New Jersey's attempt to compete with the Pennsylvania Railroad for passenger traffic to Atlantic City. It was a badly timed due to the onset of the Depression in the Fall of 1929. It also had the disadvantage of not having direct access to Manhattan as did the PRR with their Hudson River tunnels. To get to the Comet from NY, one had to take a ferry from across the Hudson River to the ferry slips at Communipaw Station rather than going to Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan and getting off of the train in Atlantic City

I have previously posted this video of my version of the Blue Comet running on the currently disheveled platform of my layout in renovation.

MTH Railking CRNJ BlueComet - YouTube

A little late entry here.  I was looking for this early but must not have looked good enough.  I had set up the trains for running some diesels this time, but then 757 got delivered and then I wanted to compare something to my other Legacy steamer, so then this happened.

Here is something a little different: A live steam 4-4-0 manufactured by Crown Metal Products. This is one of two that run at Hershey Park. Here it struggles up the grade to the station. The park is decorated for Christmas, as evidenced by the lights blanketing both sides of the cut.

Chris

P&O