STEAMday Sunday

Just like a real steam engine, today's edition of STEAMday Sunday started out a little slow, but now is gathering a big headed of STEAM!

Let's keep today's STEAMday Sunday hi-balling down the line.

Outstanding posts by everyone so far.

Arnold

It’s December so I’ve got my MTH 765 Berkshire on the head end of a Polar Express excursion run.  Have a great week everyone and Happy Holidays!

MELGAR, I decided to Google "PRR Camelback".  Here's the result from Steam Locomotive. com: "PRR built three 4-4-2 class E1 camelbacks in its Juniata Shops in 1899.  These locomotives had wide fireboxes, but were not the patented Wootten type.  The PRR did not build any additional camelbacks and sold these three to the LI RR in 1902 and 1903".

John

@Steam Crazy posted:

MELGAR, I decided to Google "PRR Camelback".  Here's the result from Steam Locomotive. com: "PRR built three 4-4-2 class E1 camelbacks in its Juniata Shops in 1899.  These locomotives had wide fireboxes, but were not the patented Wootten type.  The PRR did not build any additional camelbacks and sold these three to the LI RR in 1902 and 1903".

John

John,

You are correct. I was in error and corrected my post.

According to Steel Rails to the Sunrise - The Long Island Railroad by Ron Ziel and George H. Foster (1987), the PRR built three 4-4-2 Camelbacks in 1899, sold them to the Long Island Rail Road four years later, and they were the only Camelbacks ever used by the PRR. A picture of PRR 4-4-2 #820 with a three-axle tender appears in the book. By contrast, between 1903 and 1911, the LIRR operated 53 Camelback locomotives with four types of wheel arrangement including 4-4-0, 4-4-2, 4-6-0 and 2-8-0.

MELGAR

I caught sight of this loco years ago in "Steam Locomotive Cyclopedia-Vo1 Model Railroad."  What a Beast, there was an image of the loco negotiating a switch with crew members watch each drive wheel making sure it did not crawl up on to the rail.

The Beast!  The UP 9000 series .

Now if you look closely  at the pilot deck you will see the operating Greeley Valve Gear on this MTH model.  It also has the third cylinder with piston rod connected to (if I recall right)the second drive axil.  The one draw back more moving parts to lube!

Ron

Is steam engine restoration work allowed? From Saturday working on 4070 removing some stubborn studs.

Well here is my answer to those "brute's" above (Berkshire's and UP 9000), a pre-war powerhouse from American Flyer (Chicago Flyer) from 1932-1933.  She is 90 years old (91 on New Years Day) and runs just fine, is die cast and heavy as a brick so it pulls just about anything on my little flat layout.  Locomotive was not numbered in this variation although some versions did carry the number 3307 although the catalog reference for this loco is #3308.

So Happy Steam Sunday everyone.  Best Wishes.  For all you folks complaining about the weather...well you should come to Texas.  Its sunny, 71 degrees and beautiful down here..."come on down!".  (by the way fellows, I once lived in Needham, MA)

Don

@PRRronbh posted:

I caught sight of this loco years ago in "Steam Locomotive Cyclopedia-Vo1 Model Railroad."  What a Beast, there was an image of the loco negotiating a switch with crew members watch each drive wheel making sure it did not crawl up on to the rail.

The Beast!  The UP 9000 series .

Ron

Ron,

After building the Union Pacific 9000 series with six coupled axles (4-12-2), the next step was to separate the six axles into two sets of three, resulting in the articulated Challenger locomotive (4-6-6-4), to track better on curves.

MELGAR

Here's my contribution for this fine Sunday!   A Western Maryland H7 Consolidation by Lionel.  

My latest acquired steam engines for THE SOUTH FORK RAILROAD.  Both are nice runners with good sound.

@MELGAR posted:

Ron,

After building the Union Pacific 9000 series with six coupled axles (4-12-2), the next step was to separate the six axles into two sets of three, resulting in the articulated Challenger locomotive (4-6-6-4), to track better on curves.

MELGAR

Hi Mel,

Another fact about #9000, it's farewell run was March 11, 1956 pulling a steam excursion Denver-Cheyenne roundtrip for the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club.roundtrip.

Ron

@naresar posted:

Is steam engine restoration work allowed? From Saturday working on 4070 removing some stubborn studs.

Yes, anything related to steamers is allowed here. Arnold

K-Line Hudson w/PS2, Lionel ERIE Berk, and MR S3 from a few year back. What a models!

Here’s a different kind of steamer. I saw this tree ornament about 15 years ago. I got an idea to make a pedal car engine for my grandson.  Here we are with the finished product.



He just got his license.
Here is his Sister

And his younger sister today that refused to give it up unless she could ride in it one more time. She doesn’t even fit!

so now it’s off to their  younger cousin and my 10th Grandchild.

@pennsyfan posted:

Here’s a different kind of steamer. I saw this tree ornament about 15 years ago. I got an idea to make a pedal car engine for my grandson.  Here we are with the finished product.



He just got his license.
Here is his Sister

And his younger sister today that refused to give it up unless she could ride in it one more time. She doesn’t even fit!

so now it’s off to there younger cousin and my 10th Grandchild.

Great job pennsyfan, hope the grandkids keep that train for years to come. WTG Mark

MELGAR, you piqued my curiosity about the PRR camelbacks, so I did a little more digging.  Here is an image of no. 700 from the RR Picture Archives,net.  I bet I'm not the only steam fan that would love to have a model of this engine!

John

http://www.rrpicturearchives.n...ture.aspx?id=4504568