A shot from the old layout……

Have a great and safe week…….and, a great 4th!  🇺🇸🚂🇺🇸🚂🇺🇸

Arnold……it was great to see you and your wife at the Convention……you both sang great!

Peter

Hello Steam Crazies!  My grandson, Isaac, visited last week.  We ran his favorite train, my MTH Premier B&M P3 Pacific with seven MTH Railking Madison passenger cars.  He requested a change of motive power to my postwar Lionel 2-6-4 no. 2035; I expressed my doubt the 2035 could handle the train, but agreed to give it a try.

Well, I shouldn’t have doubted the old girl.  She handled the train with ease.  No wheel spin and speed to spare!

Next Sunday: we find out if my postwar Lionel 736 Berkshire is also up to the task of hauling this train.  No wagers allowed!

John

New England Patriots Super Bowl train.

A NYC 0-4-0t (MTH) spotting a couple cars. (courtesy of an electro-magnet uncoupler )

Bob

An older video of some fun with a caboose train.

Photos and videos show my model of Boston & Maine K-7c Class 2-8-0 Consolidation #2403 pulling two B&M wood-sided truss-rod passenger coaches on my 12’-by-8’ layout. The locomotive is a Weaver die-cast model (1809LP) of a Baldwin Consolidation and the coaches were made by Lionel with tooling originally developed by MTH. Atlas O recently announced a production run of Baldwin Consolidations using the tooling developed by Weaver. They will have PS3 electronics and are scheduled for delivery later this year.

B&M #2403 was the last 2-8-0 to be retired by the B&M. It remained in passenger service around Boston until at least September 1954 and was scrapped in June 1955.

B&M #2403 had an operating weight of 288,000 pounds (engine and tender with coal and water). The engine weight was 170,000 pounds with 148,000 pounds on its 61-inch-diameter driving wheels. It ran at a boiler pressure of 200 psi and produced 33,443 pounds of tractive effort.

MELGAR

Good morning Arnold!

The title of your post reads "STEAMday Sunday 6/30/3024 edition." If that were true, I would be much older than I am already...

MELGAR

@MELGAR posted:

Good morning Arnold!

The title of your post reads "STEAMday Sunday 6/30/3024 edition." If that were true, I would be much older than I am already...

MELGAR

Thanks, Melgar, title corrected.

@jstraw124 posted:

An older video of some fun with a caboose train.

I am glad that I watched it to the very end! A bit of subtle humor on this quiet Sunday morning.

Mikki

Arnold,

The unanticipated revision to the layout and engine house look good to me...

MELGAR

Thanks so  much Arnold for keeping the boiler fired up and getting us rolling today! ... and good morning fellow steam fans!    Here are some shots of steam locomotives taken over the last few years.  

A side by side of the MTH RailKing and Lionel scale 0-8-0s.  The RailKing is indeed scale!  

The MTH 0-8-0 is a candidate for weathering soon.  

MTH RailKing Y6b Mallet and Lionel scale Atlantic

Lionel Scale Atlantic

K line A5 switcher in the snow.

MTH Y6b RailKing

A summer shot of the K line A 5

Here is a Docksider that I weathered for my friend Randy Harrison, President of the Great Northeastern Railroad.