STEAMday Sunday (2/11/2024 Edition)

Boston & Maine 617 is an MTH Railking model (30-1184-1) of a USRA 0-8-0 steam switcher delivered in 2001 with PS2 at MSRP $399.95. I hadn’t previously run this engine, so I first installed a BCR. The road number was changed to 617 by forum member Krieglok, who also painted and custom-lettered two boxcars for me. I highly recommend his work. The cars are New York, Trumbull & Boston Railroad 777 and Connecticut Railroad 06611.

Boston & Maine 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.

Photos and videos show the engine and boxcars on my 12’-by-8’ layout. The original traction tires failed within a short while after I began running the engine, so two of my grandsons helped me install new ones.

MELGAR

Chris Vigaritos' super detailed New Haven Mountain type starts into Cedar Hill yard in New Haven with revenue freight.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/oPXdUSut55bU6Fro6

A B&O Consolidation with an unlettered caboose that I recently added B&O decals just for this locomotive.

Gene

Hello StDaySun fans!  We’re off to a slow start today, maybe some guys still haven’t  sipped that first cup of coffee.  Let’s hope we get up to track speed soon!

I decided to go to the archives today for one of my favorite (Does anyone else have trouble deciding which engine is the “favorite”?  I love the all!) steamers, MTH’s model of PRR’s H3 Consolidation.  There’s an example of this engine at the RR Museum of PA; it was a thrill to see it.  If you haven’t visited this museum, the Strasburg RR and the TCA museum in Strasburg, PA, you HAVE to go there!  It’s like “train heaven”!

John

Been running a NYC 0-4-0 recently.

Bob

Enjoy your STEAMday Sunday buy a Veteran a Beer.

@Steam Crazy posted:

Hello StDaySun fans!  We’re off to a slow start today, maybe some guys still haven’t  sipped that first cup of coffee.  Let’s hope we get up to track speed soon!

I decided to go to the archives today for one of my favorite (Does anyone else have trouble deciding which engine is the “favorite”?  I love the all!) steamers, MTH’s model of PRR’s H3 Consolidation.  There’s an example of this engine at the RR Museum of PA; it was a thrill to see it.  If you haven’t visited this museum, the Strasburg RR and the TCA museum in Strasburg, PA, you HAVE to go there!  It’s like “train heaven”!

John

John, nice looking engine. The wood and sheathed boxcars go well with it.

Gene

Good morning steam fans!  Just having my first cup of coffee which is catapulting me into consciuous! ... LOL!   Great pics and videos so far this morning!  Here are a couple a snapped after midnight this morning.  

N&W Y6b has taken a siding.  This is a MTH RailKing that I bought used back around 2006/7.   It's a good runner and of course a good smoker too!

Here we are at Butler Junction where there's a lot of steam action.   A Lionel C&O 0-8-0 is pulling a string of cars on the near track as the Y6b is on the siding. On the far track a Pennsy A5 pushes a caboose.  

Go Pro on Central Vermont Mogul riding on top of tender on my upper level.

MTH Premier NYC Hudson.  This is the Pat's Trains exclusive with road number 5344 from the latest release.

Well here is one for you that I don't think you might have seen before.  It is a French Hornby tender type locomotive, Type 0-E and was introduced in 1948 and ran for a considerable period, this is the first color scheme I believe.

Best Wishes

Don

Well, @Arnold D. Cribari, you always pick top notch topics, STEAMday Sunday, and fellows your showing some really beautiful engines, Super Bowl Sunday Edition, Happy Railroading Everyone