STEAMday Sunday (3/24/2024 edition)

Lionel NYC Tank engine pulling MTH NYC passenger cars.

New Haven Pacific 1389 pulls a short local through Newburgh on the New Haven section of my layout. The 1389 was manufactured by Weaver.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/jm3w7Jm5bq6aZXdw8

Good morning, StDaySun fans!  Today I’m featuring two PRR H3 2-8-0 Consolidations: no. 1187, 1:1 scale, is located at the RR Museum of PA; no. 437, a 1:48 MTH model, is seen on my layout.  It’s always a thrill for me to see the prototype of a model locomotive I own.

John

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Hi John, What a great consist of outside braced box cars. I had to watch it a few times to absorb them all. Very nice post Bill

Thanks, Bill!

John

PRR A5 # 94 by K-line getting a rest while the local waits at the depot.

Bob

Morning STEAMday Sunday steam fans,

I recently purchased a Lionel model (6-28098) of New York Central/Boston & Albany 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler locomotive #1916 from Forum sponsor Trainz. It was made in 2002 and listed in like-new condition.

Lionel’s Ten-Wheeler models are favorites of mine, and I have several. Why do I like them so much? First, they are a prototypical model of a New York Central F-2/F-12 locomotive. They have the classic look and perfect proportions of an early steam locomotive – “cowcatcher” pilot, high-mounted headlight, tapered boiler, unequally-spaced high 69-inch driving wheels, no trailing-truck, and long cab roof overhang. They are also the right size for my 12’-by-8’ and 10’-by-5’ layouts, and some Lionel Ten-Wheelers represent the railroads in which I’m most interested: New Haven, New York Central, Boston & Maine, and Boston & Albany. I’ve been waiting for Lionel to offer a new Legacy Boston & Albany version, but they haven’t, so when I saw this one, I bought it.

Boston & Albany #1916 was built by Alco at Schenectady in 1907 and superheated in 1919. When the B&A was leased by the New York Central Railroad in 1900, “New York Central Lines” promptly replaced “Boston & Albany” on steam locomotive tenders. This greatly offended the citizens of Massachusetts, so the NYC relented in 1907 and permitted “B.&A.” to be painted onto tenders in small letters – as seen on my model. Apparently, this was not sufficient to quiet the objections. Then, in 1912, “Boston & Albany” replaced “New York Central Lines” on tenders, and the Ten-Wheelers were renumbered with #1916 becoming #720. The new livery remained until dieselization in 1951, although #1916 was scrapped in 1932. I still would like to have a Ten-Wheeler model with “Boston & Albany” written across the tender in large bold letters but, for now, a small “B.&A.” on the tender will have to do.

Photos and videos show #1916 pulling NYC “lightning-stripe” heavyweight passenger coaches of the 1950s. Next time, I will run #1916 with wood-sided coaches as used during the early years of the 20^th century when Ten-Wheelers were main line power.

MELGAR

@Steam Crazy posted:

Good morning, StDaySun fans!  Today I’m featuring two PRR H3 2-8-0 Consolidations: no. 1187, 1:1 scale, is located at the RR Museum of PA; no. 437, a 1:48 MTH model, is seen on my layout.  It’s always a thrill for me to see the prototype of a model locomotive I own.

John

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Gorgeous

Thanks for stoking the fire, raising the steam pressure and getting us rolling today Arnold!  Here are a few photos of my two 0-8-0 locomotives.  On the left a MTH RailKing scale in N&W livery.  On the right a Lionel scale model with TMCC.  The MTH is a very early Ps1 from 1997 and was never run before coming to me off the bay.  The Lionel is a 2006 product which I bought new way back when.   The MTH is one of my next weathering projects.

MTH The crew is all cheers with the new N&W 0-8-0.

@trumpettrain posted:

Thanks for stoking the fire, raising the steam pressure and getting us rolling today Arnold!  Here are a few photos of my two 0-8-0 locomotives.  On the left a MTH RailKing scale in N&W livery.  On the right a Lionel scale model with TMCC.  The MTH is a very early Ps1 from 1997 and was never run before coming to me off the bay.  The Lionel is a 2006 product which I bought new way back when.   The MTH is one of my next weathering projects.

MTHThe crew is all cheers with the new N&W 0-8-0.

Patrick, great view of your layout in the video. Lots of realistic detail, nicely done.

Gene

@Genemed posted:

Patrick, great view of your layout in the video. Lots of realistic detail, nicely done.

Gene

Thank you so much Gene!

@Arnold D. Cribari

Arnold & Other Forum Members:

Last week I posted a new addition to the Great Northeastern Railway's steam roster, an MTH, Rugged Rails, Blue Comet 4-6-2 Pacific equipped with Proto-Sound 2.

Arnold had the same locomotive as part of a starter set with 3 MTH Blue Comet coaches and posted a video of it in action. Arnold suggested that I post a video of ours pulling a string of Lionel, MPC era Blue Comet coaches. Though our layout is in shambles as we redo it from the infrastructure and onto the track and scenery, we do have one clear and functional track. Below is a link to a brief video of our Blue Comet, not running through the Jersey pine barrens on its way to Atlantic City but, through the piles of boxes, tools and remodeling scrap all over the platform.

MTH Railking CRNJ BlueComet (youtube.com)