STEAMday Sunday

MELGAR, I hear you, that K-line cruise control is funky!  I run my K-line NH EP5 with the cruise off and so was my B&A 4-6-6T before I had it converted to PS3.

John

If it's Sunday, it's STEAMday Sunday!

Today, I will start us off with an MTH PS2 Southern with a Pacific wheel configuration hauling a boxcar consist:

Love the look of the emerald green livery of that steamer.

Here's another short video showing the same train taking the river route:

Now it's your turn. Please remember to only post photos and videos you have taken, or those in which you have the express written permission of the owner or photographer to do so.

Arnold

Good morning steam fans!  Arnold I love your Southern 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive!  Thanks too for firing up the boiler and getting us rolling for this fine Sunday!  

Today I'm showing stream power from large to small beginning with the running gear of the massive N&W Y6b Mallet and ending with the B&O C-16 Docksider.  

The Y6b is all business as it exits Northeast Tunnel with a long freight drag.

A Shay is getting the once over by its' crew.  

A Shay on the service track.

A B&O C16 Docksider earns its' keep by working the yard.  

Happy StDay Sun, y’all!  One of Mark Boyce’s favorite steamers is also one of mine, a MTH Premier Western Maryland 2-10-0 Russian Decapod.

These locomotives we’re designed for Russian railroads.  They had ten drivers and a long wheelbase to spread the engine’s weight on light rail.  A number of them were built and shipped to Russia until the Revolution.  Further shipments were cancelled and the remaining engines were distributed to US railroads by the USRA during WW1.

My Decapod is seen hauling a selection of postwar flatcars with custom loads.

John

Have a good STEAMday Sunday on this coal and oil of a day

Photos and video show my Weaver die-cast model of Maine Central Class W 2-8-0 Consolidation #501 running conventionally on my 10’-by-5’ layout at 26 scale miles-per-hour. The chuffing and whistle sounds are realistic. Model made in 2007.

Maine Central #501 was built by Alco Schenectady in 1910. Tractive effort was 37,000 pounds, locomotive weight was 198,000 pounds and total weight (loco and tender) was 348,000 pounds. #501 was retired in 1958 and is currently under restoration at the Conway Scenic Railroad in New Hampshire.

MELGAR

This is my best conventionally running steamer, a Lionel NY Central Hudson with beautiful detail IMO, probably made in the mid to late 1990s:

Runs smooth and the sounds and smoke are very nice IMO.

The passenger cars are K Line 15 inch NY Central and Pullman Madison Heavyweights with figures, my best. Arnold

A Big Boy…

And a Bigger Boy…

The original!

Ron

Well, just to give all our followers a rest from all those beautiful scale (and often huge) steamers that I could not come close to running on my 0-27 layout, I thought I would post one from the "other end" of the spectrum.  This Lionel loco from 1963-64 has a fully detailed plastic boiler, came with a slope back tender, and had a 2-position reverse and an operating headlight.  In 1964 it was also listed as part of the 11430 set complete with 2 freight cars, a caboose, track including a remote control track and a 25 watt transformer for $14.95.  By the way she came to me as a $2 dug out from under the tables purchase at a train show and she runs great and pulls her little train with no complaints.

Best Wishes To All....Don

Arnold,

Thanks for resuming STEAMday Sunday. I think it's important to have a weekly thread about steam locomotives on the OGR Forum.

MELGAR

Classy MEC steam! Thx Mel.

Well, it’s Monday here in Incheon Korea, but it shows you the power of hi technology which makes us as close as our IPads…. Beautiful steamers everyone and great videos. These steamers were found in Korea, actually near the DMZ, and more Korean train pictures will appear tomorrow or in the next few days. The weather here is fantastic. Happy Railroading Everyone

Lionel 2023 Penn steamers resting in the roundhouse   

Charlie

RK Pennsy serviced and ready for assignment.......

...........have a good beginning to the week.  God speed everyone. 

Once again, it's Sunday, this time barely, and when it's Sunday, it's time for STEAMday Sunday.

Steam locomotives of all kinds are celebrated here. Just remember to follow the Forum Terms of Service (TOS) to the letter, and only post photos and videos you have taken, or those in which you have the express permission of the owner/photographer to post.

I will start us off with a video of a conventionally running Lionel Boston & Albany Hudson, which I believe was manufactured in the mid to late 1980s. Here it is hauling Northeastern box cars, and a very nice MTH Boston & Albany caboose recently acquired from our Forum sponsor, JR Junction Hobby. The engineer makes safety a priority by running the train slowly through My Little Town:

Arnold

@Arnold D. Cribari, Arnold, it’s good morning from Busan Korea and this is a great thread, always good pictures of steam in operation or still pictures of awesome steam power. Happy STEAMday Sunday everyone….

Doesn't MTH make terrific smoke units for its steamers?

Check out this MTH PS3 Long Island B6 steam switcher circling the ball park:

Arnold

Yes, @Arnold D. Cribari, Arnold, MTH does make great smoke units, and @Gunrunner Johns smoke stuff works fine to….Happy STEAMday Sunday…

Photos/videos show my Lionel Legacy model (2231120) of New York Central 2-8-0 Consolidation #960 on my 10’-by-5’ layout.

NYC class G-6i #960 was built for subsidiary Michigan Central Railroad as #7812 by Alco (Brooks Works) in June 1909 with 63-inch driving wheels. Tractive effort was about 45,500 pounds, locomotive weight was 244,500 pounds and total loaded weight (loco and tender) was 395,000 pounds. It was scrapped as New York Central #1195 in 1954.

The engine is running at 27 scale miles-per-hour videos.

MELGAR

Good morning STEAMday Sunday fans Some steamers working the rails.

Steam variants!

Ron

Hello, StDSun fans!  Lots of interesting steamers posted already today.

I’m going to the archives to show my first steam locomotive (and train),  a Marx no. 333 NYC Pacific.  Some of you may remember I subconsciously hijacked another of Arnold’s topics, “Let’s see your first train”, and posted this train a while back.  Sorry again, Arnold, I’m sure you remember!

And just for fun, I’m posting a photo of my grandson, Isaac, sticking his head through a hole in his father’s HO layout!

John

Here are two clips of a Santa Fe 2-10-10-2 .  I took these on Friday in the Orange Hall at York.

Well for today I have another elderly warrior for you.  This is the M3 Tank Engine by Hornby.  Made both electric and clockwork (this one is clockwork) in several liveries, this being the LMS (London, Midland, and Scottish Railway)  Red/Black.  This engine was made from 1931 -1941 but several changes can narrow that date line.  In 1936 cylinders and connecting rods were added, then in 1937 the cutout in the base was enlarged and in 1939 a matte finish was used...Hence this particular example would date from 1939-1941.  It always carried the same loco number -2270 for its entire history.  She was one of the most popular of the Hornby line of 0 gauge engines and at the time considered a high value for her price.

Here she is with a short string of LMS #1 coaches.  Unfortunately, these are post war coaches but they differ from their pre-war sisters only by having a somewhat lighter color grey roof.

Well that's it for me today.  I hope your upcoming week goes well for everyone.

Best Wishes

Don

Just a small switcher, 0-4-0 MTH 840 Jersey Central dockside tank switcher

Charlie

A pair of steamers resting in my engine yard…

Sorry I can't figure out how to reduce the run time on my other video(s) since the file size is too large to insert.

Good morning, fellow steam locomotive lovers. We know that when its Sunday, it's STEAMday Sunday.

Remember to follow the Forum Terms of Service, and post only photos and videos you have taken, or ones in which you have the express written permission of the owner/photographer to post.

Today, I will start us off with my best steamer, a Lionel Legacy NY Central Ten Wheeler with whistle steam. It's my best overall steamer, not only because it's my only Legacy with whistle steam, but because it fits perfectly into the major theme of my layout, which is The Put (Putnam Division of the NY Central).

Hope you all enjoy this short video showing this Legacy 10 wheeler hauling Atlas beer reefers and MTH cookie boxcars plus caboose, down the line:

Now, let's see what you are excited about. Arnold

CENTRAL RAILROAD OF NEW JERSEY

EMD GP7 no. 1524 pulls a Westbound local freight while 4-6-0 Camelback no. 763 heads up an Eastbound commuter job.

John

Here's a short video of the aptly named "Dead Man's Junction." I always wanted a crossover, and using Ross items made this double-tracked version. It keeps those O-scale engineers and fireman on their toes...countless collisions to date. The RR is in the planning stages for warning signal installation...am hoping that help the guy who actually drives the trains (the big dummy whose nickname is Paul E. Fudd).

Some Lionel PW , MPC and Railking on this STEAMsay Sunday

Boston & Maine 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler is a Lionel Legacy model (2131050) delivered in 2021 at MSRP $749.99. The prototype of Lionel’s model is a New York Central class F-2 Ten-Wheeler built by Alco but very similar in appearance to the real B&M class C-19 #2074, which was built by Baldwin in 1898 and scrapped in 1939. I like the model. It runs well and has realistic chuffing sounds but Lionel should have made it with a round Baldwin manufacturer’s plate on the boiler instead of the rectangular Alco plate. The engine is shown on my 10’-by-5’ model railroad pulling B&M wood passenger coaches #1268 and #1243 made by Lionel from MTH tooling. Wood passenger cars were used on the B&M into the 1950s.

MELGAR

Well today I plan to show some additional pictures of my new JEP tin lithographed streamlined steamer.  I know very little about the details of this locomotive besides its manufacturer.  It is clockwork (which works fine by the way) and uses all metal wheels including drive and truck wheels.  This dates it a bit before the "plastic" era in the middle 1950's thus I would date it from 1945 - 1955 but that is a pure guess.  Anyone with any further data (I have almost no information on JEP at all) please feel free to comment.

Here at first is a full side view showing the (what appears to be) an oil type tender with the characteristic JEP ladder on the side.

Another view showing the engine and tender, you can just make out the stamped trade mark for JEP on the rear of the tender

And of course the front end view.

Best wishes to all, hope your upcoming week goes well

Don

The might 0-8-0 switcher!   A good choice for yard work, hump work, transfer freights, and road engine for way freight service.  

Here is my Proto 1 PRR T-1

Here is a Lionel Legacy Consolidation in PRSL Livery. Turn on the exhaust fans!

To complement the ERIE Triplex.

Ron