STEAMday Sunday 7/21/2024 edition

Hello, StDaySun fans, and thanks, Arnold, for getting us rolling!  If I had that CNJ 0-6-0, it would be one of my favorites, too.

My theme today is steam powered coal drags.  Sit back and watch them roll on the high iron!

John

The Lionel LV Coal Co. #126 has been just an all around fun engine to run. It’s solid, well built and nicely detailed. Today it’s pulling an open air passenger car for all to enjoy.

Gene

The steam locomotive on my 10’-by-5’ layout this week is a model of Boston & Maine Class B-15 2-6-0 “Mogul” #1455 (Lionel Trains 6-38019). It was listed in the 2005 Volume 1 catalog at an MSRP of $599.99 with TMCC and a Pittman motor.

B&M 2-6-0 steam locomotives pulled freight and passenger trains on main and branch lines in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and in commuter service around Boston. So, my photos and videos show #1455 at the head-end of two trains, one with wood-sided passenger cars and the other with wood-sided refrigerator cars. The coaches are B&M #1268 and #1243 (Lionel L2227100). The freight cars are B&M ice storage car #13266 and Brookside Milk MTC 1835, both by Atlas O. The only information I’ve found on the ice cars is a photo of B&M #13212 parked on the tracks near North Station in Boston.

Locomotive #1455 was built by ALCO in Manchester, New Hampshire in November 1907. After being superheated, the total weight of engine and tender (including coal and water) was 220,890 pounds, with a weight of 128,000 pounds on its 63-inch-diameter driving wheels. It produced about 25,000 pounds of tractive effort at 200 pounds-per-square-inch boiler pressure. The railroad sold #1455 in July 1956. It is now preserved at the Danbury Railway Museum in Connecticut.

MELGAR

NYC 0-4-0 rounding the bend.

Bob

Central Vermont Mogul with short freight on upper level of layout.