Wow, I built up a big head of STEAM early this Sunday morning.
My short video below shows my K Line Boston & Albany tank engine hauling 5 Williams metal plated NY Central passenger cars as the train at a fast clip encircles Yankee Stadium:
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Again, Happy STEAMday Sunday, Arnold
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Another shot from the old layout……
Have a great and safe week, everyone…..
Peter
MTH SF Steamer pulling set of K Line passenger cars thru crossing. Have a great day everyone😊.
THE BROADWAY EXPRESS
Good morning steam fans! With inspiration from last Sunday’s posts of PRR’s E6s Atlantics, I present my MTH model of PRR’s most famous passenger train.
The Broadway was the ultimate in luxury, comfort and speed in the day, rivaled only by NYC’s Twentieth Century Limited. If you wanted to travel from New York to Chicago in style, riding one of these trains was the only way to go!
John
In 1928, Alco built five D-1a 4-6-6T bi-directional steam locomotives (road numbers 400 to 404) for the Boston & Albany Railroad to use in commuter service around Boston. In my opinion, they are the most interesting of all steam locomotives. These engines ran in a circuit – outbound on the main line to Riverside, inbound on the Highland Branch back to South Station, and also in the opposite direction. Since they were double-ended, it was unnecessary to turn them before the next run.
The first O gauge model, with road number 403, was made by K-Line in 2005. The tooling was later acquired by Lionel, and a Legacy version with road number 400 was produced in 2020.
The tank engines had 63-inch drivers, ran at 215 psi boiler pressure, weighed 352,000 pounds, and developed 41,600 pounds tractive effort. They were the largest tank engines ever to run in the United States and were designed for rapid acceleration. Their tractive effort was almost equal to that of a Boston & Albany 4-6-2 Pacific. They were retired in 1951.
Video shows #400 and #403 running on my 12’-by-8’ layout.
Whenever Lionel makes a B&A tank engine model with any of the three remaining road numbers, I will be a buyer.
MELGAR
Mel, I’m with you, I like unique steam engine designs like tank engines. Camelbacks are another favorite. I wish the manufacturers would offer more of these engines.
Here is my K-line B&A 4-6-6T converted to PS 3 that you’ve seen before. I never get tired of running it!
John
Thanks so much Arnold for that early full head of steam today!! It's great having you at the throttle of Steam Day Sunday!! 
Here is a video of a N&W Y6b Mallet exiting Northeast Tunnel with a mixed freight train on the Free State Junction Railway.
An older video of K-Line Alleghenys working together.
A New Haven I-5 and a New Hevn I-4 meet in Roscoe New York on my fictitious NH, NYO&W layout
A beautifully detailed Queen and Crescent from MTH PS3.
Lionel legacy Consolidation Custom run from Mr Muffin. PRSL with ATLAS passenger cars.
@jstraw124 posted:An older video of K-Line Alleghenys working together.
That is one awesome train.😊
B&O passenger and WM freight on the mainline.
Well here is one of my favorites. Neither large, complex, nor particularly scale she fits my picture of a great toy train that really brightened some young person's day during the dark days of the Great Depression. She is the Hornby type M0 from 1930. This smaller, less expensive line was designed by Hornby to fit the very restricted budgets of families in this period especially for "luxury" items like toys. She is clockwork and never had either drive rods or a leading/trailing truck. In the second picture, she is shown pulling a small train of Mettoy freight wagons, these from the postwar period likely early 1950's. All U.K. products.
Happy SteamDay
Don
The Pennsy bought six of these N&W Y3s in 1943 to help move freight during WWII. They were scrapped by 1949. The Pennsy called them HH1. A Pennsy H was an 2-8-0, so the Y3 was two H's back to back.
MTH.
Diesel chasing steam
Times are a changing on the NY&LB. An invasive species known as the diesel-electric has taken over the yard in Bay Head Junction which finally signals the beginning of the end for venerable K4s Pacifics in the summer of 1957.
Nice shot Jonathan - did you ever read the story in Trains magazine I think it was back in 1973 about a fast mail train pulled by a pair of K4's that was pulling into Crestview OH with one of the locomotives having issues. There was a T1 Duplex on the back lot that was ordered to to be fired up as a replacement for the train and the engineer told the fireman "this may be the last time we get to run one of these so let's make this a good one". They pulled out with a full load and headed to Ft Wayne IN and over the last 37 mile stretch they opened her up. The speedometer pushed past the 120 mark which was tops from what I remember and it kept going. It was estimated that they were running in excess of 130 mph for the last 25 miles or so. What an exciting trip! They were called onto the carpet for their adventure but the authority gave them a big wink...
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