STEAMday Sunday (12/1/2024 edition)

My steam engine for this Sunday 12-01-2024 is New York Central 0-4-0 #901 – an MTH Premier model (20-3261-1, MSRP $599.95) with PS2 delivered in 2007.

MTH describes this model as a Pennsylvania A5s with its Belpaire firebox replaced by a standard radial firebox. The builder’s plate on the smokebox of the New York Central version even says “Juniata Shops” – not a manufacturer from which the NYC would have bought locomotives.

I consulted Steam Locomotives of the New York Central Lines by W.D. Edson and H.L. Vail Jr. but found no reference to a superheated 0-4-0 switcher like this model. The NYC was buying more powerful 0-6-0 steamers by 1900 and began superheating them around 1915. So, although the model is not prototypical, it’s a good size for the O-36 inner loop on my 12’-by-8’ model railroad and its narrow rock cut.

This little engine, the O-36 loop, and the narrow rock cut remind me of the HO layout I had when I was about twelve years of age...

MELGAR

Great start Arnold, Happy Steam Eve Sunday.
Here is my Lionel Legacy Consolidation in New Hope & Ivy livery as custom ordered by METCA.  Number 40 is on the point of a New Hope & Ivyland Fall excursion; in my customized passenger cars.

Here are a few meets of the NH&I meeting the massive PRR 2-10-4 on the way out of town.