STEAMday Sunday 8/25/2024 edition

December 2010, on the modular group layout….
My PS-2 RailKing Decapod, which is still going strong.

Have a great week!

Peter

Good morning, steam locomotive fans everywhere!  Welcome to the second half of New York Central weekend!

Today’s featured steamer is my MTH Premier NYC 0-4-0 no. 901.  She’s hauling a train we’ve seen before, a load of military hardware destined for Fort Devens in Ayer, MA.  The location of this move is the B&A/NYC yard in Worcester, MA; no. 901 will pull the train to the B&M yard in North Worcester and the latter road will deliver the train to Fort Devens.  Seen along the B&M route is a group of GIs training at Devens.

John

Have a good STEAMday Sunday all! God Bless America!

This was my father’s who passed away last year.  He liked tinplate and found a deal at Legacy Station years ago for this ps2 version.  I doubt if I will ever be able to disassemble his wall display he made for it.

B&M 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler is a Lionel Legacy model (2131050) delivered in 2021 at MSRP $749.99. Lionel has used this tooling to make models with many road names. The prototype is a New York Central class F-2 Ten-Wheeler built by Alco in 1907 that closely resembles the model of B&M #2074. The engine is shown on my 12’-by-8’ model railroad pulling B&M wood-sided passenger coaches by Lionel from tooling made by MTH. Wood passenger cars were used on the B&M into the 1950s.

MELGAR

Thanks so much Arnold for keeping the boiler fired up and getting us rolling today!  Your Commodore Vanderbilt Hudson looks terrific with those heavy weight passenger cars!  

I posted these photos of my new Weaver brass 0-6-0 steam locomotive on Switcher Saturday yesterday.  This engine is well detailed with a realistic coal pile.   The locomotive's Seuthe  unit smokes/ works quite well ... see video at bottom of post.  

The B&O purchased 40 of these locomotives ... 20 from Baldwin Locomotive Works ... and 20 from American Locomotive Works ( ALCO ) in 1919.  The B&O classified all 40 as D-30.  They were built using USRA specs.  The entire fleet of B&O D-30s were retired in 1956.

Pulling into the North Main Street station...

Thanks for the Steam Up on this fine Sunday Arnold.
Here is a MTH PRR Y-3, 2-8-8-2 hauling coal on the back end of my layout. He is getting passed by the MR Bi-Polar passenger train and the BMT Standard 2500 is rubbling overhead. I doubt the Y-3 engineer can hear the BMT overhead.

@Capetrainman posted:

Pulling into the North Main Street station...

Paul - WOW!! What a gorgeous shot!!!!  The lighting is perfect and the composition is super well balanced!!!  

My nephew snapped these photos of my PRSL H-10 flying around the curve at Broad Street Junction.

A PRR S2 by MTH.  Like Peter's, this baby could fill a room with smoke in no time!

Pulling a 12-car coal drag

- walt

Well good morning Steamday Sunday Fans, today I am going back to pre-war days but I am taking my inspiration from our leader Arnold this morning and posting a Commodore Vanderbilt locomotive.  This one, a red boiler & cab, wind up version from Marx dated 1938-1939.  She is paired with a NYC "wagon top" tender, also in red but perhaps a year later 1940-41 but they could have been together easily as Marx was never shy about using up stock left over from prior years and tenders were sold as separate items.  Anyway they came to me as a pair along with a set of red 6" passenger cars.  Note the plain almost flat front with only the headlight rim showing through.  No RR names and unlike the electrical powered version, no "Commodore Vanderbilt" nameplates on the side.  This lack of decoration is in fact an identifying characteristic of the wind up loco's in the pre-war period.

Here is a closer view of her type 551, "wagon top", NYC tender.

Happy Sunday everyone!  Hope your week goes well.  I start back to teaching on Monday...with a new class and a new course...so wish me Luck!

Don

New Hope & Ivyland steam on the move on my layout today:

@H1000 posted:

Here's my Blue Comet Camelback running with a neat track-side view.

  The sun sets and rises rather quickly in the train room but I was also testing some adjustment to my HD Train Cam. Sorry, no audio in this one.

Impressive video.

@jstraw124 posted:

This was my father’s who passed away last year.  He liked tinplate and found a deal at Legacy Station years ago for this ps2 version.  I doubt if I will ever be able to disassemble his wall display he made for it.

Enjoy your dad's shelf that is sharp looking keep the memories and hand it down to your kids, sorry about your dad God Speed! Mark

@jstraw124 posted:

This was my father’s who passed away last year.  He liked tinplate and found a deal at Legacy Station years ago for this ps2 version.  I doubt if I will ever be able to disassemble his wall display he made for it.

This is Beautiful  a  real Masterpieces. I have that train and it was the start of my enthusiasm for the hobby I full relate to your fathers choice to persevere. I hope your family takes comfort in his passion for hobby and how he has preserved him self in this display. What a fantastic legacy to pass down.

@trumpettrain posted:

Paul - WOW!! What a gorgeous shot!!!!  The lighting is perfect and the composition is super well balanced!!!  

Patrick, thanks for the comment...as much as I enjoy color pics, I seem to be using B & W more these days...I guess B & W reminds me more of the "good ole days"...

The coal train approaches the...South Main Street crossing...pulled by the CN Mountain steamer...