STEAMday Sunday (9/22/2024 edition)

From my archives……a K-Line 0-4-0 pulling a work train on the old layout in 2016……

Have a great and safe week, folks!

Peter

Thanks for stoking the boilers Arnold, That is a handsome Commodore Vanderbilt.
My entry this morning is a Lionel conventional 2-8-2, 6-8309 Southern RR. It’s a very brief video, l just ran it around the loop to check it out. It’s going back in the box and off to the painter. It’s a donor engine to become NH 3025.

New Haven 0-8-0 #3400 (MTH 20-3148-2, scale wheels, 2005), a favorite that’s usually parked on a siding on my layout, was to be my engine for this Sunday, so I began to take photos and videos. A few minutes later, it stopped abruptly and wouldn’t move. It’s now on its way back from repair. A simple fix.

MELGAR

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

This morning, I will begin this 9/22/2024 edition of this thread with an MTH Railking Commodore Vanderbilt Hudson that has been upgraded to PS 3:Here it is, rolling round the bend, hauling Lionel NY Central Madison Heavyweights:

Arnold

Nice looking engine Arnold, and quite the smoker!

Gene

Hello StDaySun people!  The nod today goes to Arnold for motivating me to feature a New York Central locomotive I haven’t posted recently.  

It’s my Lionel 4-8-2 Mohawk.  To me, only the mighty Hudson says “NYC” more than a Mohawk.  I bought it from a friend “for a song”  because he prefers more modern engines.

I believe this engine dates to about 1990 and was equipped with an early Lionel sound system, “the mighty sound of steam”.  It has a piston smoke unit with one chuff per revolution and a venerable “Pullmor” motor.  It runs well (despite a fall to the floor with little damage!), smokes well after a little TLC to the smoke unit and has a rather haunting whistle.  I’ll post a video with whistle sound at a later date when I’m home.

John

Have a good STEAMday Sunday

PW Lionel Prairie Type, the Burlington Route purchased this style loco, their plan was to run these steamers through the farms and fields of the Midwestern prairies, thus 2-6-2's were dubbed Prairies. Over a 1,000 were built for several railroads, most larger railroads shied away from them due to early balancing issues. the 2-8-2 Mikado's began to replace The Prairie Locomotives. In the world of Lionel the Prairie name started in the prewar era with the 224 and 1666 loco both having 2-6-2. From 50 through 1969, all prairies carried the 2-6-4 wheel arrangement solely because the body remained unchanged, the 2026 did use 2-6-2 from 48-49

PW Lionel 2026 and 2037

Sorry about this dark video made adjustments to the brightness but I can't get it to update.

The "Greenbrier" streamer loads passengers at the North Main Street station...

PRR 6-8-6

- walt

Son picked up a Railking 0-8-0 yesterday.  A picture from his testing this morning.  Nice Southern colors.

Well today I have chosen a very humble offering.  It is the Marx 0-4-0 #400 steamer, very common and used repeatedly by Marx with many sets.  However today, she is in charge of a somewhat unique tender, the "Allstate" slope back tender from Sears - ALLSTATE being a trademark of Sears, Roebuck and Co and used on some of their train offerings.  In addition to the tender marking, we also have every car in her "tank train" consist marked with the ALLSTATE name.

Here she is at the front of her ALLSTATE tank train.  Note 3 dome, 2 dome, and 1 dome tank cars plus an ALLSTATE bay window caboose.  The cars all date from about the same era: Allstate slope back tender 1958-1960,  2 dome Allstate - 1958, 3 dome Allstate - 1960, 1 dome Allstate -1959, and the Allstate bay window caboose was available in 1958 & 1959.

Here is a better look at that bay window caboose.

Best wishes, Don

Lionel K4s working its way around the layout.  This one is in the post WWII configuration.  It is set up to be #2 in a double headed consist but I thought I let it run on its own.

Cars are Weaver, Atlas and GGD.

A new Lionel Pennsy M1…

I posted some additional photos here: https://ogrforum.com/topic/307...8#185705974697354598

NY Central 10 wheeler (Legacy) parked at a diner just outside Yankee Stadium in the 1930s:

Thanks Arnold for keeping the boiler hot and getting us started for this fine STEAMday Sunday!!   Your Commodore Vanderbilt looks terrific and it smokes up a storm!!

Today I caught these two short videos of a B&O Hudson at the point of an express train with a rider coach at the rear.