STEAMday Sunday (11/24/2024 edition)

From our modular display at the annual Science Museum of Virginia Thanksgiving weekend train show…..2011…

Have a great and safe week, everyone…….and, safe travels to all!

Peter

Good morning, fellow steam fans!  Arnold, I never get tired of seeing your Yankee Stadium!  It’s the highlight of your fine layout for me.

On the Steam Crazy Lines, MTH Western Maryland 2-10-0 Russian Decapod no. 1108 is taking on coal and water for the day’s run.  She’s seen later hauling coal over the mountain near Parsons, WV.

John

Thanks Arnold for getting the steam up this morning.
I have a LIONEL Legacy 2231180 O PENNSYLVANIA #6510 -  2-10-4; going head to head through town witH LIONEL Kughn era 6-8406 NYC HUDSON 4-6-4 #783

Boston & Maine #617 is an MTH Railking model (30-1184-1) of a USRA 0-8-0 steam switcher. The model was delivered in 2001 with PS2 at MSRP $399.95.

#617 was one of twenty-two Class H-2-a 0-8-0 switchers built for the B&M by Alco Schenectady in 1922. It was sold to the Maine Central Railroad in 1946.

The engine ran on the O-72 outer loop and O-36 inner loop of my 12’-by-8’ layout with three boxcars and a B&M caboose. The first video shows the train running southbound on the O-72 loop at the layout’s southeast curve. The second video shows the train entering the narrow cut between the low hills on the O-36 loop.

MELGAR

The "Greenbrier 610" hauling the "20th Century Ltd." at the North Main Steet Station...the Chrysler Town and Country awaits the arrival of Miss Daisy...

Arnold ... Thanks for stoking the fire and getting the boiler hot so this great thread can roll today!

Two pardoned turkeys have not only escaped the chopping block but have also won a free ride on the Reading ( well maybe not the Reading but the B&O ).  Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  

K-Line Union Pacific Big Boy with Rail King passenger set

Here's some pics ... top 4 are of the Lionel 611 on my layout.  Scrolling downward you'll find several more photos of various aspect of the real 611 which I took this past summer at the Virginia Museum of Transportation.

Running gear of the Lionel 611.

Engineer Floyd Hammock at the throttle.  ( Floyd Hammock was a family member who was an actual engineer for the N&W back in the steam era.  I don't know if he ever operated the J class locomotives but on my layout he does ... lol! )

Another photo of Floyd at the throttle.

Floyd climbs aboard.

The real J class 611 at the VMT with tender and water tender.

The bell is hidden under the cowling.

The running gear.

The water tender.

Rear of water tender.

The famous snout!

Shown below is just about the largest (at least longest) steam locomotive Marx offered.  It is the #994 which was introduced about 1950 and while this version is all black, a more famous version was the "Mickey Mouse" train which came about later.  The locomotive is a 2-4-2 in detail but the front and rear trucks exist only as part of the stamping that forms the rest of the locomotive, there are no actual trucks.  It is all sheet metal construction and was used with the long Marx Nickel Plate Road tender and normally pulled the 7" 4 wheel lithographed freight cars.  This locomotive and the cars were developed quickly in the 1950 time period as Marx responded to the completely unexpected train competition from Unique Lines which had suddenly decided to market a line of trains.

Happy Steam Sunday and Best Wishes for a wonderful Thanksgiving.

Don

In honor of STEAMday Sunday, as well as Arnold’s new topic on smoke sents, here is a short video of my first Lionel steamer - a 637 from around 1962. One of the very first things I do with any new engine is to turn off the smoke since I don’t like the smell, but those smoke pellets…

P.S. the smoke is better in the second circuit!!!

I just expanded the beer refer inventory.

Bob