STEAMday Sunday 9/29/2024 edition

Good morning STEAMday Sunday fans, thanks Arnold for getting the steam up this morning. Your B&O steamer and train look amazing running through your autumn countryside. Today I’m showing my Lionel PreWar 226E with a six wheel tender, having nickel journals and a consist of Lionel PreWar 710 710 712 blue on blue six wheel passenger cars with nickel journals.

Here are some photos of my Ls.

8041 - 3rd Rail L1

9628 - K-Line L2

Good morning, StDaySun fans!  Thanks, Arnold, for the highball, nice looking B&O steamer!  What kind of car is the last freight car in your consist?

Vacation last week prevented any new photo/video production for today’s post, so I’m reaching back in the archives just about one year for my MTH 2-8-0 Consolidation.  This engine is one of MTH’s finest efforts, in my opinion, produced during the firm’s “glory days”.  I certainly miss the variety of product, backed by high quality, that used to be available from MTH.  I bet a lot of you guys do, too!

John

My steamer for today is Long Island Rail Road B-6 0-6-0 steam engine #170 - shown on my 10’-by-5’ layout. It’s an MTH Railking Imperial model (30-1710-1) delivered in 2017 with PS3 at MSRP $449.95. Imperial steamers have upgraded features not found in the Railking line such as a real coal load, legible builder’s plate, engineer and fireman figures, and tender truck safety chains. In my opinion, these details greatly enhance the appearance of the model, especially when running on a layout, although a look at the boiler reveals cast-in features that are separately applied on Premier steamers. It seems to me that MTH decided to keep (and upgrade) its lower-priced Railking model of the B-6 0-6-0 and sell the tooling for its more expensive Premier USRA 0-6-0. Could MTH think that the sales potential for a lower-priced 0-6-0 is better than for a more expensive one?

The MTH model represents a superheated B-6sb. 238 were built between 1916 and 1920. The engines weighed 180,300 pounds (not including tender), developed 36,140 pounds tractive effort, and had 56-inch driving wheels. Only two such locomotives, including #2015, are known to have run on Long Island.

MELGAR

Here's more shots of my new NYC 0-6-0. For anyone who missed SWSat yesterday. I just got this from Trainz last week and it's already my favorite to run. This is a PS2-5v model that I've installed a BCR in. I still need to test the smoke unit but otherwise after a quick service and cleaning she's happily running the rails.

The model has reporting marks for the Chicago River and Indiana RR. The CR&IRR owned 14 USRA 0-6-0's, # 221-234, they were Class B-62's. Built by ALCO between 1918-1919, there were 255 original models.

Today the crew is swapping cars on the team track. Dropping two loads and picking up two empties.

After checking in with the tower crew, they head out of town to run to the interchange yard.

Bob