STEAMday Sunday (3/9/2025 edition)

Thanks for stoking the fire for this STEAMday Sunday Arnold. Here is my custom Consolidation PRSL 6222 hauling sand out of Cape May in RMT sand cars.

From a previous Post-York visit to the Pennsylvania RR Museum…..

Have a great and safe week, folks!

Peter

Good morning, StDaySun Nation!  It was imperative of me to remember to set the clocks today, because I have to be on time for a NETCA show.  Will there be an addition to the Steam Crazy Lines to show you next weekend?

It’s 1952; we are in Southborough, MA, on the Boston and Albany line between Worcester and Boston.  It is, sadly, near the end of steam on the B&A, and it is common to see New York Central power hauling B&A equipment.  What a treat it is, then, to see NYC Mohawk no. 3000 on the head end of B&A’s posh “Wolverine” with a string of well maintained heavyweight passenger cars!  Those were the days!

John

Thanks Arnold for keeping the fire stoked and the boiler hot to get up and running today!  Your Pennsy Consolidation looks terrific and I love he high pitched whistle too!  

My SDS offering is my Lionel scale 0-8-0 switcher with TMCC.  This engine is reliable and a great puller with decent smoke output.  I bought it new from a local trains shop, as the shop was offering a 33% discount on selected locomotives at the time,  back around 2005/6.  This C&O switcher has been plying the rails of the Free State Junction Railway ever since.

Taking on water at the tank in Butler Junction  ... fireman Griz Season stands on he tender deck ready to lower the tank's spout.

MOW workers are too busy doing their job to even notice what's going on behind them, for seeing a steam engine is just an ordinary day on the railroad.

Brakeman Jake "The Brake" Willis rides the front step as conductor Buck Wheatley stands beside number 75.  

New York Central #415 is one of my oldest steam locomotive models and one of the first MTH Railking USRA 0-8-0 steamers. Railking 30-1123-1 was delivered in August 1997 with PS1 at MSRP $399. I’ve considered upgrading it to PS3 but it’s been a reliable runner and I’m used to the once-per-rev chuffing and somewhat fast speeds.

NYC #415 was built in in October 1918 at Alco’s Brooks Works and was the first of 25 Class U-3a steam switchers. It was renumbered to 7815 in 1936 and retired in May 1952.

The 0-8-0 heavy switcher was designed by the United States Railroad Administration during World War 1. 175 locomotives were built to the design during the USRA administration and 1,200 more were built afterward, thereby making it the most common steam engine design in the United States. The combined engine and tender weighed 364,000 pounds and the engine developed 51,200 pounds of tractive effort.

Shown on my 12’-by-8’ layout.

MELGAR

Winding down the weekend with some steam Sunday

Another Steamday Sunday...have a great day...

This video shows the same MTH PS2 Pennsy Consolidation running on DCS at the other end of my layout. Unfortunately, you will see sparks and a derailment on an 022 switch at the end of the video: