Forums

[464484]

Steam Glory 2 is one of those rare times that the promise is delivered. It teased good stuff and there it is, for all to see and enjoy.

And that is quite a trick for an over analyzed subject that has been gone from USA’s mainlines for 46 years.

My ranking:

#7 “Green Giants.” What BIG, FAT beauties! I never knew. Thanks.

#6 “Reading Shops” the Reading motive power gets some respect. (I just wish there was images and stories of the men in the shops.)

#5 “Southern Pacific’s Painted Ladies.” What a treasure! I have seen black and white photos of the one of the engines but to have almost all in COLOR! Awesome.

#4“An Unforgettable Ride”, the story and great color of Pennsy K4s’ in their last days. (I could have seen them if my Dad only knew!)

#3 “A Day With Engineer Herbel.” Wow! GREAT photojournalism! I wish I had taken Art Hanford’s shot on page 66-67 of fireman Pease yanking the water column over. What a great shot. (Pease’s right foot in the air makes it for me.)

#2 Every few pages, like being handed a vanilla ice cream sundae with chocolate fudge while watching your favorite movie, we get landscape format, gutter free, suitable-for-framing COLOR photos of STEAM! I liked “Streamliner At Rest” on page 37, “Gathering At The Mount” page 68 and “Steam and Bilevels-1 and 2” pages 84/85. GEE WHIZ!!`

#1 Incredible at it seems to me at this late date of 2006, “Streamlining the Centrals Thoroughbreds” actually presents NEW information. Here we finally see what was in the minds of two great steam designers and how they created their finest creations.

However, what is most fantastic is the knowledge imparted by the article that the original respective locomotives drawings were opposite the ultimate historic value of the final designs.

Today the pontificators of taste state that Kantola design for the Commodore Vanderbilt is inferior because of the slant nose and even worse, the covering of the running gear. Instead we see in the original design an abbreviated slant nose and FULL visual access to the fabulous monkey motion of Hudson reciprocating steam.

On the other hand, the glorious projectile nose of Dreyfuss’s ’38 Century Hudson is smothered under a C&O M-1-like pug ugly steam turbine snoot. How different these men’s reputations would be today if their original designs had been implemented?!

Thank you author Richard L. Stoving for bringing this important historical information to light.

A big thank you goes to the staff at Kalmbach and especially to Editor Jim Wrinn.

Well Done!

Dennis A. Livesey

[Anonymous]

Whew, amazing how some of these threads fall out of bed and rise again!

LOL. Check the date.

[464484]

Whew, amazing how some of these threads fall out of bed and rise again!

LOL. Check the date.

Yeah, well!!! It was late, too much wine, etc., etc... Anyway, "Steam Glory 2" is terrific and I just wanted to say so. Also I need now to redirect my kudos to “Classic Trains” and “Steam Glory 2” Editor Robert S. McGonigal rather than “Trains” Editor Jim Wrinn. (Jim, the January 2007 is terrific also!) One more mistake attributed to the same aforementioned reasons… (Those time stamps are REALLY tiny...) :-)

[Anonymous]

Whew, amazing how some of these threads fall out of bed and rise again!

LOL. Check the date.

Yeah, well!!! It was late, too much wine, etc., etc... Anyway, "Steam Glory 2" is terrific and I just wanted to say so. Also I need now to redirect my kudos to “Classic Trains” and “Steam Glory 2” Editor Robert S. McGonigal rather than “Trains” Editor Jim Wrinn. (Jim, the January 2007 is terrific also!) One more mistake attributed to the same aforementioned reasons… (Those time stamps are REALLY tiny...) :-)

I picked up the Steam Glory Two last night as a impulse. I spent an hour back in the steam enjoying the meat and potatoes of the entire issue.

AWESOME. If everything was this good there would be no problems!

I hope they do a Glory Three.

[Trainmaster.Curt]

Yep, i got Steam Glory2 yesterday, and yep, it's absolutely awesome. Especially love the Crown Steam 1954 article with the Canadian Engines, can't beat that!! I hope to go to BC or Alberta to see and go on the CPR 2816 H1-b Hudson, and also go to Alberta to see the APR in Stettler, where the handsome beast the 6060 Mountain type resides. Can't wait til Steam Glory3 which i think should be all about current Steam Excursion Railways.

[blade]

steam glory 2 was excellent,great photography,very interesting and informative articels,and the beauty of it all is that anew issue from those great folks at kalmbach are doing it again,soon to be shipped out(boy,i can't wait to get my hands on it)i belive it is called in search of steam.thank you kalmbach for bringing the steam story to life in the pages of your magazine,also a big gratitude and appreciation to all the great people who do as always an excellent job of putting it together.