STEAMday Sunday

Happy Steam Sunday everyone.  Here is my NYC J-1e ‘Big Four’ Hudson.  I modified the sound file for a different whistle.  Have a great week everyone!

It's Sunday, barely, and my great pleasure to initiate today's edition of STEAMday Sunday!

At the outset, please fully comply with the OGR Forum Terms of Service. Only post photos and videos you have taken, or you have the owner's express written permission to post.

I will start us off by sharing this short video of my best conventionally running steamer, a beautifully detailed Lionel Hudson made in the 1990s hauling scale reefers and boxcars including several Atlas beer cars and a nicely detailed MTH NY Central caboose:

Now, it's your turn to share your favorite steamers.

Arnold

New Haven 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler is a Lionel Legacy model (6-82272) listed in the 2014 Volume 2 catalog at MSRP $899.99. The catalog refers to the engine as “A Classic Design from the 19th Century.” Ten-wheelers were capable of hauling a train of wood coaches but were replaced by 4-6-2 Pacific-type locomotives early in the 20th Century as heavier steel passenger cars came into use. The model is listed for O-42 curves but O-54 is recommended. I have New York Central, Boston & Maine and New Haven versions of this model and plan to buy a Boston & Albany version if offered by Lionel.

The prototype of Lionel’s model is a New York Central class F-2 (reclassified F-12e when superheated) Ten-Wheeler first built by Alco in 1905.

Videos show the engine on my 10’-by-5’ model railroad pulling New Haven Railway Post Office #3286 by Weaver and an unlettered wood passenger coach by MTH.

MELGAR

The Royal Blue, MTH PS2 Pacific streamlined steamer:

Love the look, smoke and sounds and runs beautifully through 031 curves. Arnold

Good morning, Steam fans!  It’s 6:30 EST in NE, but it still feels like 7:30.  I bet many of you, like me, would like to do away with the biannual clock ritual permanently.

A trip to the archives turned up some photos of my Lionel model of B&M B15 Mogul.  She was the first scale steamer I bought after getting back in the hobby in 2005.  Other than smoke issues, she’s run well until recently; I usually have to give her a push to get started.  I suspect some slop in the gears due to many, many miles of use.

The prototype no. 1455 has been preserved and is on display at the Danbury (CT) Railroad Museum.

John

Have a good STEAMday Sunday! Some PW  Lionel, MPC and a RailKing

WM number 729 sits on the service track.

Engineer Smoke Stack Higgins has just stepped off "his engine" and ponders the choices in local beaneries.  Meanwhile hostler Elmer Teasley climbs aboard Smoke Stack's engine.   All the employees on the railroad know that 729 is extra attached to 729.  He's been exclusively operating this locomotive for the last 10 years!  

O'l Es Tee, as he's sometimes called,  is very particular about how "his engine" is serviced.  He wants everything to be immaculate.  If not he will choose some colorful language to let the service crew know he's not satisfied.  

Now that 729 has been filled with sand, she's off to get her coal bunker topped off.  

OK SDS fans ... here is my Lionel #18007 Southern Pacific GS-4 from 1991

Best Wishes, hope your upcoming week goes well

Don

Here’s my Lionel UP A6 Atlantic working hard on the layout today:

And my Lionel Pennsylvania E6 Atlantic waiting for duty sitting near the turntable:

Good morning. It's Sunday, what does that mean?

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

Remember, only post photos and videos you've taken or those in which you've gotten the express written permission of the owner to post.

I will start us off with the best deal for a steam engine locomotive that I ever got: the Lionel LC + Erie Camelback steamer hauling freight through My Little Town in this video:

It's my best deal because I believe I got a $700 engine (like a Legacy) for $400 (the LC+ it actually is). It definitely has the detail of a Legacy.

OK, now it's your turn to show us a steam locomotive.

Arnold

Happy StDaySun y’all!  Arnold, thanks for taking the throttle, but I’m wondering how your submission got posted twice!

Today we found some rail fans camping out alongside B&M’s Fitchburg Division with their cameras.  They weren’t disappointed; the crew of B&M 0-8-0 no. 613 on the head of a beer train shoveled extra coal on the fire to give them a SMOKY show!

John

Have a good STEAMday Sunday! Couple PW Lionel and a Williams Berk and U.P. Northern Railking racing around the bend.

Baldwin made I-5 Mohawk 1409 heads the Merchants Limited toward New Haven. The train is behind schedule and the Railroad can expect a written complaint from one of its riders, none other than Mr. Arnold Cribari.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Z71CSFPQjKofZfyF6

Norfolk & Western #244 is a Railking model of a USRA 0-8-0 steam engine that was one of 12 locomotive types designed by the United States Railroad Administration when it controlled American railroads between 1917 and 1920 during World War 1. USRA 0-8-0s were the most widely-used design for 0-8-0 heavy steam switchers. 175 were built during the period of USRA control and some 1200 more were constructed afterward. The loco and tender had a combined weight of 364,000 pounds. Tractive effort was about 51,000 pounds.

MELGAR

Santa's getting the Christmas Express ready for the busy season.

Bob

A New Haven I-4 Pacific, now bumped out of shore line use by the new Baldwin I-5's, heads a local now . The I-4 Pacifics were for many years the standard power on Shore line trains from Boston to New Haven.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/KUkFARYV6mGYSu8bA

@Steam Crazy posted:

Happy StDaySun y’all!  Arnold, thanks for taking the throttle, but I’m wondering how your submission got posted twice!

John

Thanks John for mentioning that. My bad, I just deleted my 2nd post.

@Bill Park posted:

Baldwin made I-5 Mohawk 1409 heads the Merchants Limited toward New Haven. The train is behind schedule and the Railroad can expect a written complaint from one of its riders, none other than Mr. Arnold Cribari.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Z71CSFPQjKofZfyF6

LOL.

Bill, when I see your layout, I catch myself drooling (figuratively) because of the luxury of space that your enormous layout has, which is also beautiful IMO. Your layout is big enough to be a club layout for a big model railroad club IMO. Arnold

All of the above posts of steam trains are excellent IMO, so far.

Thanks for sharing.

Arnold

Konrad Dressler 0-4-0 locomotive (U.S. zone Germany -late 40's) and 2 Heinrich Wimmer of Nuremberg (HWN) coaches from the 1950's take the main line.  That's a Lionel Berkshire on the waiting track with some pw Madison type coaches.

Best "Steam Day" greetings my friends.  Hope your upcoming week is both happy and healthy.

Don

Commodore Darth Vanderbilt

Arnold… I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate!!! (with apologies to Mel Brooks)

NYC Hudson

It's 1:21 AM Sunday morning  and you know what happens in the wee hours of every Sunday morning.

You guessed it: STEAMday Sunday, which I have the privilege of starting on this Forum and which is always one of the highlights of my week.

Remember what is soooo important. Only post photos and videos you have taken or gotten the express written permission of the owner to post.

Now, let's start the fun.

You have seen this steamer before if you have hung out on this Forum for more than 30 days, but this MTH PS3 B6 switcher is one of my very favorite steamers, at least in the top 3, if not #1. It's a very smooth runner on DCS; has prodigious smoke; has breathtaking sounds, bell and whistle; pulls like Mighty Mouse (remember that cartoon); and has totally reliable electrocouplers.

Hope you enjoy these 2 short videos:

Now, I hope I've entertained you, and it's your turn to entertain me and the rest of us Forum folks by showing off some of your favorite steamers. Arnold

Well, hope this is entertaining enough. Just got this gorgeous Lionel ESE and MTH passenger cars.

POSTWAR LIONEL STEAM POWER

NYC Berkshire no. 736 and PRR “K4” no. 2035 pound the rails!  The crews of these steam engines know the new fangled diesels will never replace these brutes!

John

Boston & Albany #606 was a J-2b Hudson built by Alco in August 1930 and scrapped in October 1952. It had 44,800 pounds of tractive effort and 55,320 pounds including the booster engine on the trailing truck. Total weight (loaded loco and tender) was 557,600 pounds. Unlike New York Central J-1 and J-3 Hudsons with their 79-inch drivers, the B&A J-2 classes had 75-inch drivers to better cope with the grades on the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts where they operated. The railroad between Boston and Albany was not a “Water Level Route.”

My MTH model (20-3583-1 with PS3) was delivered in 2015 with green boiler and graphite-colored smokebox. Various references mention a green boiler on some B&A Hudsons but I have never seen a color photograph of one. Video shows it on my 12’-by-8’ layout running at a scale speed of 30 miles-per-hour.

MELGAR

My PRR Camelback that I picked up at York. Waiting for the grandkids to arrive to give it a good run.

Have a good STEAMday Sunday all

Lionel Legacy custom run by Pat’s trains purchased a year ago this month.

Gene

@Steam Crazy posted:

POSTWAR LIONEL STEAM POWER

NYC Berkshire no. 736 and PRR “K4” no. 2035 pound the rails!  The crews of these steam engines know the new fangled diesels will never replace these brutes!

John

@Steam Crazy

John:

I own and really like both engines. The 736 Berkshire was the locomotive in my first Lionel train set that Santa delivered in 1953. I acquired the Lionel "backwards K-4" later. I refer to it as such in that Lionel got the wheel configuration wrong. The true PRR K-4s was a Pacific type locomotive with a 4-6-2- wheel configuration. Lionel got it backwards and created a fictitious wheel configuration, the 2-6-4 which never existed on the PRR. The original issue of the locomotive in the middle to late 1940's was a 2-6-2 wheel configuration that was a Prairie type steam locomotive, also not a part of the PRR steam fleet. However, it runs well and, like many post-war Lionel steam locomotives, has passed the test of time still running today on many of our layouts today. Below is a photo of this engine being serviced by the motive power maintenance crew of the Great Northeastern Railway.

Yes, Randy, Lionel’s K4 is “backwards”.  I wonder if anyone knows why Lionel picked the 2-6-4 wheel arrangement.

My 2035 was a gift from a neighbor.  It was dirty and a bit rusty when I got it, but I managed to restore it to respectable condition.  I bought the 736 in 1960 from Madison Hardware using money I earned in a temporary job.  It came with a PRR tender shell, but I replaced it with a NYC shell because it looks like a Mohawk.  I saved the PRR shell in case I want to return it to original condition.

John

Here's my steam for this fine Sunday!   N&W Y6b mallet.  MTH RailKing Proto 2.  

Here’s my Lionel 2-8-0 Consolidation in New Hope and Ivyland livery. A custom run by METCA. It’s pulling my NHI custom heavyweights.

@Steam Crazy

John:

Your PRR to New York Central tender shell change for your Berkshire is correct. The PRR owned no Berkshires. But the NYC did on their subsidiary Line, the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. Yes, I can sound like a pain in the a*s, stickler for railroad accuracy. That is maternal grandfather, William Schubert, the 42-year tenured PRR Freight conductor speaking through me. But I still love Lionel, especially the postwar trains and thank Lionel for introducing me to a hobby for a lifetime.

Here is a relative new-comer but she is handsome nonetheless.  The Lionel #38664 4-4-2 Atlantic "1058 cab number" from 2008 - 2009.  Built in the Lionel traditional fashion, she is diecast and has smoke, electronic e-unit, and a whistle in the tender.

Best Wishes Everyone and Happy Thanksgiving

Don

@trumptrain posted:

Here's my steam for this fine Sunday!   N&W Y6b mallet.  MTH RailKing Proto 2.  

Patrick another picture perfect scene!

Gene

@pennsyfan posted:

Here’s my Lionel 2-8-0 Consolidation in New Hope and Ivyland livery. A custom run by METCA. It’s pulling my NHI custom heavyweights.

Bob, is that the wrong steamer for your post?

Gene

@Genemed posted:

Bob, is that the wrong steamer for your post?

Gene

LOL! You are so right Gene! Good catch, I grabbed the wrong video. 😱🥵

@pennsyfan- Hey Bob, it may be wrong but it still looks pretty good!

Don