STEAMday Sunday (3/16/2025 edition)

Thanks for the Steamup Arnold! I also reached into the archives today. My layout is packed with All I  ran yesterday.
Here is a MTH 263 with a mixed freight.

I also wanted to share this Lionel Pre War 226 e   with Nickel journals and box coupler. I can't find the video.

Photos and video show my Weaver diecast model (1809LP) of Boston & Maine 2-8-0 Consolidation #2403 pulling two B&M heavyweight passenger coaches by MTH on my 12’-by-8’ layout. It’s a nicely detailed model that runs well. Atlas O now owns the tooling for this model and is scheduled to deliver updated versions with PS3 electronics in April or May 2025. I’m looking forward to receiving two of these revised models – in Boston & Maine and New York Central liveries.

Boston & Maine #2403 ran in passenger service around Boston until at least September 1954 and was the last 2-8-0 to be retired by the B&M. It was scrapped in June 1955.

MELGAR

Good morning, StDaySun fans!  Like Arnold and Bob, I’m reaching back into the archives for today’s steamer.

The Central Railroad of New Jersey rostered a fascinating collection of Camelback steam engines.  The most numerous example of the type was probably the 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler, a versatile locomotive used for light freight and commuter passenger service.

My model of this type is a MTH Railking Imperial product.  It has been a dependable performer for the Steam Crazy Lines for about fifteen years; the only services required were installation of a new smoke wick and a BCR.  Here is no. 763 at the head of a short commuter job.

John

Here’s some K-Line green for St. Patrick’s Day.

Dualing steam on this fine Sunday...great pictures here...

Thanks so much Arnold for keeping the boiler pressure up and getting us rolling for this fine Sunday!  

I also dug through my archives today and put together this mix of photos showing steam on the Free State Junction Railway.  

Two 0-8-0s N&W number 244 ... the last steam locomotive manufactured in the U.S. in Dec. 1953.  Also a C&O manufactured by Lima Locomotive Works in the 1920s.  The N&W is an early MTH model and the C&O is by Lionel.  Both are scale size.

A Shay by Lionel with TMCC.  

K line A 5 switcher.

MTH Docksider.  My first locomotive weathering project.

Scale Lionel .. N&W  J class 611 with TMCC.    

Another steam icon ... a N&W Y6b Mallet ... a MTH RailKing version.  

Close up of the K line A5.   My second locomotive weathering project.

A 5 takes on water at the spout.

A 5 takes on water in the late afternoon.

Docksider on the engine service track.   Those O'l boys are taking good care of the old gal.

C&O 0-8-0 takes on water.

The N&W J class 611 brings the Powhatan Arrow through Patsburg as C&O 0-8-0 number 75 waits in the hole.  Meanwhile a diesel switcher lurks in the background with a tale of things to come but in this moment ... steam is still king!  

@trumpettrain posted:

steam is still king!  

It certainly is on your layout with those pics! Great job on blending the archival photos.👍

Gene