STEAMday Sunday (9/15/2024 edition)

Thanks for standing in MELGAR, and getting STEAMDay Sunday rolling. For this Sunday I’m running a PW 2046 with a PRR tender and a consist of PW passenger cars. In the background my 1666 is still chugging away.

Thanks for starting us, Mel…….

Both are Archive photos today…….1st, from August 2014 at the Chesterfield County Fair…..my semi-scale 646 Lionel Hudson pulling a milk/passenger train. Sounds provided by a RailSounds 1 steam REA box car……

2nd is from winter 2013……my Legacy 4-6-0 pulls a passenger consist……both pictures are on our modular show layout…..

Have a great and safe week, folks!

Peter

Great start MELGAR

Prairie Type PW Lionel Steamer that was brought back from the bone yard to run for another 100 years a 1666 2-6-2 from 1946

And a 224 2-6-2 from 1945 - 46 that was also sold for parts did a repaint about 30 years ago been thinking about repainting back to Lionel Black, all nice running engines

SantaFe #2174 getting ready for the days run. This is a Lionel conventional model. One of my favorite engines to run on my layout. They have cast bodies and some decent weight to them. This one survived a trip to the floor with nothing but a bent side rod and a fireman who was thrown from his seat.
The new Lionchief plus 2.0's are made from the same molds.

Bob

NIGHTIME IN THE SWITCHING YARD

Good morning Steam Crazies!  MELGAR, thanks for subbing for Arnold.  You already have us at a full head of steam!

The rock music fans out there might recognize “Nightime in the Switching Yard” as the title of a Warren Zevon song.  I think it’s one of his more obscure songs, because I just heard it for the first time a few months ago.  Check it out on You Tube, it’s worth a listen.

I’ve been a fan of watching Steam at night for a long time.  There’s something hypnotic about listening to the sound of hissing steam, air pumps clanging and safety valves popping in the glow of headlights and marker lights.  It’s almost like the steam locomotives are alive.

Here are two of my steamers resting at night, waiting for their next assignment:  MTH Premier Western Maryland Russian Decapod 2-10-0 no. 1108 and MTH Premier New York Central 0-4-0 no. 901.

John

@Steam Crazy posted:

NIGHTIME IN THE SWITCHING YARD

Good morning Steam Crazies!  MELGAR, thanks for subbing for Arnold.  You already have us at a full head of steam!

The rock music fans out there might recognize “Nightime in the Switching Yard” as the title of a Warren Zevon song.  I think it’s one of his more obscure songs, because I just heard it for the first time a few months ago.  Check it out on You Tube, it’s worth a listen.

I’ve been a fan of watching Steam at night for a long time.  There’s something hypnotic about listening to the sound of hissing steam, air pumps clanging and safety valves popping in the glow of headlights and marker lights.  It’s almost like the steam locomotives are alive.

Here are two of my steamers resting at night, waiting for their next assignment:  MTH Premier Western Maryland Russian Decapod 2-10-0 no. 1108 and MTH Premier New York Central 0-4-0 no. 901.

John

Beautiful shot John the lightning was just right

On the right is an MTH, PRR, K-4s locomotive. On the left is the Lionel. MPC era Blue Comet.

@Steam Crazy posted:

NIGHTIME IN THE SWITCHING YARD

I’ve been a fan of watching Steam at night for a long time.  There’s something hypnotic about listening to the sound of hissing steam, air pumps clanging and safety valves popping in the glow of headlights and marker lights.  It’s almost like the steam locomotives are alive.

Here are two of my steamers resting at night, waiting for their next assignment:  MTH Premier Western Maryland Russian Decapod 2-10-0 no. 1108 and MTH Premier New York Central 0-4-0 no. 901.

John

@Steam Crazy,

John,

That is an outstanding and realistic scene and video. Excellent!

MELGAR

Bob and Mel,

Thank you for the nice compliments!

John

A Lionel made "Christmas Train" - I usually have a Winter/Christmas scene on my Christmas layout so I picked this one up at York a few years ago.  Smoke, Sound, whistle, and runs really smoothly.  Conventional all the way.

- walt

The NYC "Twentieth Century Limited" pulls into the North Main Street station...

A Monon 4-6-2 has taken on water and is ready to roll out…

My PRR themed layout's era is late 1940s ('47-'49).  By then Pennsy's top of the line steam engines from the 1920s were relegated to secondary routes, locals, yard work, and MoW.  One of my biggest complaints about O scale manufacturers is that they do not put operating couplers on the front of their non-switcher steamers.  For me I am specifically talking about Pennsy's H-series, and maybe L-series, steamers.  There were several hundred of these still running during my era leading locals requiring switching movements at industries along the mainline.  I wanted one for this duty so I had an electrocoupler added to the front of my Weaver H10 when I upgraded it with TMCC.  The person who did this has passed away, but I am having the same thing done to my 3rd Rail H6 by Harmonyards.

Thanks so much Mel for being in the right hand seat box, notching out the throttle, and getting us rolling for today!  Lots of fine photos, videos and info from everyone!

Today I'm showing photos of my Pennsy A5.  This is a K line model.  It supposed to be "scale" but actually a little over scale.  Anyway, its' appearance and size works for my railroad.

Engineer Ollie Korver waves to his relief engineer Wiff Simpkin.  Ollie is glad his shift in the yard is over.  Now it's time dash off to his favorite  watering hole and wet his whistle.  

Well here is a locomotive from Germany, a Konrad Dressler.  This one marked, "Made in U.S.Zone" which if the marking is correct dates it from about 1946-1954.  It is a clockwork 0-4-0 and still works quite well.  She is a "dual service" engine in my imaginary world capable of handling both passenger and freight consists as you can see in the pictures below.

Here she is handling a short consist of HWN (Heinrich Wimmer Nuremberg) coaches, these from the same era as the locomotive.

Here she is with a freight consist, made up of Mettoy freight wagons from the UK in the 50's, a little newer than the locomotive.  Note the Jaguar sedan on the flat is my personal add, it did not come that way from Mettoy

Happy STEAMday Sunday everyone, hope your week goes well.

Best Wishes, Don