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Post That Steamer

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Post That Steamer
Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, February 18, 2021 2:15 PM

No fancy directions or anything hard to follow.  Post them if you got em!

Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, Fall 2019

 

 

 

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, February 18, 2021 2:26 PM

USRA 2-8-2 Grand Trunk Western 4070 (nee 3734) crossing the Wheeling & Lake Erie just south of Cleveland, Ohio, while running on the B&O CT&V branch in 1976:

 4070_RD_w-RW by Edmund, on Flickr

More steam, please.

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Posted by RR_Mel on Thursday, February 18, 2021 2:44 PM



Southern Pacific AC-9 #3807 2-8-8-4, late 40s Southern New Mexico
 

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Posted by selector on Thursday, February 18, 2021 3:04 PM

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Posted by ATLANTIC CENTRAL on Thursday, February 18, 2021 5:40 PM

Strasburg #90

 

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Posted by BigDaddy on Thursday, February 18, 2021 5:47 PM

Durango

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COB Potomac & Northern

Shenandoah Valley

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, February 18, 2021 6:14 PM

A Reading T-1:

 

 2102_T-1 by Edmund, on Flickr

 

— and a Nickel Plate S-2 Berkshire:

 IMG_5319 by Edmund, on Flickr

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, February 18, 2021 6:31 PM

Love em! Yes

One of Casey Jones's parked in Jackson Tennessee 2018

 

 

 

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Posted by DSchmitt on Thursday, February 18, 2021 6:49 PM

I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.

I don't have a leg to stand on.

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Posted by L. Zhou on Thursday, February 18, 2021 6:55 PM

^

Laugh

Photographs taken way back in 2013 by then 9 year old me at the Beijing Railway Museum of a China Railway KD7 class steamer. Sadly I don't have a photograph of the front as it was parked between two other classes. 

The KD7 class were the only American-built steam locomotives to ever operate in the People's Republic of China. 

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Posted by Trainman440 on Thursday, February 18, 2021 6:55 PM

^LOL

Colorized myself.

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Posted by Pruitt on Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:51 PM

Cumbres & Toltec, 2007.

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Posted by peahrens on Thursday, February 18, 2021 7:57 PM

 IMG_7197 by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr

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Posted by Overmod on Thursday, February 18, 2021 9:04 PM

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Posted by Track fiddler on Friday, February 19, 2021 12:41 AM

Trainman440

^LOL

Colorized myself.

Charles

 

A steamer with wheel wells.  Now I have seen everything and my life is complete Charles! Indifferent 

And it really makes me wonder how you could see where you were going driving that thingIndifferent  Maybe you don't need to see where you're going.  It isn't like you need a steering wheel to navigate the curves in the track.  And those things can't stop anyway so I guess whoever's in front of it better get out of the wayLaugh

 

That other steamer was quite funny DSchmitt.  Especially after the oysters were done OvermodStick out tongueLaughLaughLaugh

 

 

 

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Posted by "JaBear" on Friday, February 19, 2021 3:53 AM

NZGR Ja1275 reversing on to the turntable at Te Kuiti, August 2017.

Ja 1275 by Bear, on Flickr

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, February 19, 2021 4:20 AM

An un-colorized NYC K-5b Pacific in Mercury dress:

 

 mercury 1936 by Edmund, on Flickr

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Posted by NorthBrit on Friday, February 19, 2021 5:43 AM

'Richboro'  on the Aln Valley Railway,  Alnwick, England

 

 

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Posted by pt714 on Friday, February 19, 2021 6:55 AM

Chama:

Cumbres Pass:

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Posted by Overmod on Friday, February 19, 2021 9:30 AM

Track fiddler
That other steamer was quite funny DSchmitt.  Especially after the oysters were done Overmod

But those are not oysters, they're clams... steamer clams... Whistling

There's a variety of the following out there, but for raw visceral impact combined with railfan excitement...

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Posted by selector on Friday, February 19, 2021 11:46 AM

British Columbia Heritage Railway's H1e Royal Hudson, formerly CPR 2860.

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Posted by emdmike on Friday, February 19, 2021 6:18 PM

Since you all when off on a non model tangent, I will put up a steamer thats a model.  Aster live steam gauge 1 Southern Railway(UK) Schools class 4-4-0. 

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Posted by Overmod on Friday, February 19, 2021 7:17 PM

emdmike
Aster live steam gauge 1 Southern Railway(UK) Schools class 4-4-0.

I believe the very first model Aster produced, and probably the highest production of any since.

I would have one (as this is one of my very favorite prototype designs) except that most of the mechanism is not prototypical (e.g. it only has two cylinders).  That wouldn't and shouldn't matter to most of the rest of you, and that's a particularly attractive example of a completed locomotive in the picture...

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Posted by Track fiddler on Friday, February 19, 2021 7:48 PM

Models of Steamers are Steamers too and very well okay here!

Like I said in the beginning. There are no difficult rules or directions to follow,  Post them if you got em.

I have thoroughly enjoyed them all.  Up till now I can't get over that one on highway I-10 alongside Overmods car along side with 3751Yes

Looking over sideways at that Beauty out the car window, with all the exterior mechanical engineering of the drive arms cranking fast spinning the wheels.

Chug-A-Pull-It...... I do believe was the juvenile terminology spoken by us kids when we were quite young of what I just saw.

I'm enjoying these Steamers Kids.  I would certainly post another one from myself but Imgure is down for me right now. 

But I hope you guys still have more Steamers to post because I sure am enjoying themStick out tongueYes

 

 

 

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Posted by emdmike on Friday, February 19, 2021 8:12 PM

Aster was not up to the task of doing the Schools as a triple cylinder engine as it should be in those early years.  Those in the hobby are floating the idea to Aster as their 50th anivesery is coming up in a few years, to redo the Schools but up to current standards.  Would be a stunning model.  The original Schools, released in 1975/76 along with the JNR mogul were the very first Aster live steam models.  The only time Aster made another model with the quanitiy of the Schools (over 3000) was the joint project with LGB for the Frank S live steam loco for the LGB world of railways.   Mike the Aspie

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Posted by cats think well of me on Friday, February 19, 2021 8:31 PM

My Oriental Limited M1b after putting pickups on a PCB strip and being able to run it without electrical pickups from the tender.

 

N&W J 611 running through Northern Virginia not far from where I grew up June 2015. I had waited over 20-years to see this fine beast in steam and steel with my own eyes that day. 

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Posted by thomas81z on Friday, February 19, 2021 10:19 PM

brass bullmoose my 2-8-8-0 that i sold and lost in the mail sadly

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Posted by doctorwayne on Friday, February 19, 2021 10:48 PM

 

Other than the last three, all are my own photos.

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Posted by "JaBear" on Saturday, February 20, 2021 1:08 AM

Track fiddler
But I hope you guys still have more Steamers to post because I sure am enjoying them Stick out tongueYes

Ok, NZGR Ww 644, 4-6-4T, steaming up at Glenbrook, February 2012.
 
Steaming up 644 by Bear, on Flickr
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Posted by NorthBrit on Saturday, February 20, 2021 5:55 AM

LNER Thompson B1 locomotive number 1264   seen on North Yorkshire Moors Railway,  Grosmont Station.

 

 

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