Steam in action / Pictures

[CAZEPHYR]

 I wanted to share a few pictures that I took over the years before steam was replaced.   Enjoy!

http://s806.photobucket.com/albums/yy345/Trainsforyou/Fifties%20Steam/?albumview=slideshow

 

CZ

 

 

 

 

 

[4Steam]

Thank you for sharing those i wish i could have been around to see that.

[samfp1943]

CZ: 

        Looked forward to seeing another of your photo sets. I was really surproised to see this particular set.

Pennsy, B&O, N&W and some really unusual engines.. The streamlined B&O-- was what a 'Royal Blue'? and the T-1's I don't think I've seen many photods that were not posed of those. My guess is you grew up in Central Illinois or Indiana, or  possibly Ohio? 

Thanks for sharing them!

[CAZEPHYR]

samfp1943

CZ: 

        Looked forward to seeing another of your photo sets. I was really surproised to see this particular set.

Pennsy, B&O, N&W and some really unusual engines.. The streamlined B&O-- was what a 'Royal Blue'? and the T-1's I don't think I've seen many photods that were not posed of those. My guess is you grew up in Central Illinois or Indiana, or  possibly Ohio? 

Thanks for sharing them!

Thanks for the comments.  It is my joy to share some of the pictures.  I have more but the camera I used in those days did not always turn out great pictures.  

We lived in Illinois where my parents lived and where I grew up.  My dad was a railfan and had steam traction engines also. 

 The locomotive I am standing on in 1948 at the Chicago Rail Fair is the Cincinnatian P7d.  It might have been one of the locomotives that had been the Royal Blue orginally.  The Royal Blue American Flyer was my first model train in 1948.  The other picture of me in the fireman's seat of the 2554 at Bluford was taken by the crew while we were on the turntable.   We rode many times up and down the yard as locomotives were serviced and run into the roundhouse.  

The PRR pictures were taken by my Mother for the most part, but I started taking pictures in 1954 or so and the rest were taken by me.  We lived south east of Effingham Illinois where many of the pictures were taken.  The N&W pictures were taken in 1956 on vacation to see steam in action.  The NKP were taken around Neoga and the IC pictures are around Effingham, Neoga and Bluford Illinois.   Neoga was a great place in 1954 and 55 since both the IC and NKP were 100 % steam on freight and the diamond was a great place to watch both railroads.  

The steam era was so interesting and the crews would almost always invite you up in the cab.

The picture on the bridge overlooking the main shops in Roanoke was the way the N&W looked in 1956. Not a diesel in sight and the Jawn Henry was in helper service.  I got to see some rare locomotives.

 The web site below has the excursion steam and some variations of the early steam at the end.  It also has steam in the UK and SAR.

http://s197.photobucket.com/albums/aa205/City_train_usa/Trains%20New%20Era/Trains%20Steam/?albumview=slideshow

 

CZ

 

 

[CAZEPHYR]

4Steam

Thank you for sharing those i wish i could have been around to see that.

 

Thanks for the comment.  It was a time a kid could really enjoy the railroads and the crews were great and allowed us to get on many of the locomotives. 

I got to run one Illinois Central 2-10-2 from the inbound track up to the turntable with the guy standing beside me.  It was amazing to feel the great locomotive respond to my tugging on the thottle and moving forward slowly.  I did not get to run it into the round house after it was turned, but it was a great moment in my life to run that locomotive just about one thousand feet.

It all ended too soon!

CZ

[daveklepper]

Great pictures.   thanks!

[selector]

It is a treasure, that series.  And I am intensely jealous that you got so many up-close photos of Pennsy super-steam. 

-Crandell

[CAZEPHYR]

Crandell

My Mother took the pictures of the T1's since I was only about eight when I saw my last T1, but as a small kid, I was invited up in the cab many times to look over the locomotive.  I was always impressed with the J1's which were probably my favorite of all the PRR locomotives.  It was a great era to watch so many trains each time we would go to Effingham and to hear one coming in the distance was a treat for sure.  

The funny thing about watching trains from the age of 2 on, I could spell Pennsylvania when I started school.  They were amazed that a small kid could spell such a big word!

They used to run so many passenger trains each day before the 707 first flew and slammed the door on passenger trains forever.  

The Q2 is one locomotive I got to see but have no pictures of to remember.  My dad would not carry the camera so when we visited the roundhouse in Chicago, we did not get pictures of the Q2 that was on the ready track. 

Thanks for the comment.  I enjoyed every trip we made.

CZ 

[Fla RailFan]

  Really enjoyed your pics. Very well done

[Paul Milenkovic]

Absolutely and completely amazing.

I just love those close-in shots of the poppet valves on the Pennsy T1 -- I wish more railfans would take more such tight shots of key pieces of railroad technology.

There are also some side shots showing the gobnormous fireboxes on some of the Super Power -- the Nickle Plate Berkshire, and is that a 2-6-6-6 Allegheny in one of the pictures?  These photos show things not seen anywhere else.

Thanks for showing.

[CAZEPHYR]

Paul Milenkovic

Absolutely and completely amazing.

I just love those close-in shots of the poppet valves on the Pennsy T1 -- I wish more railfans would take more such tight shots of key pieces of railroad technology.

There are also some side shots showing the gobnormous fireboxes on some of the Super Power -- the Nickle Plate Berkshire, and is that a 2-6-6-6 Allegheny in one of the pictures?  These photos show things not seen anywhere else.

Thanks for showing.

Thanks for the comments.  I wanted to share some of my pictures and appreciate all of the comments.  

 My dad just absolutely loved the T1's and those close ups of the poppet valves and detail allowed him to look closely at the new hardware.   The NKP Berkshires were his favorites also because they sort of looked like a smaller PRR J1, which is due to their both of their design data went back to the C&O T1 2-10-4. 

 It is one of the great 2-6-6-6's on a train in 1951.   I got to see a Virginian 2-6-6-6 also on house steam at the roundhouse at Roanoke but did not get to see it run.

The most rare locomotive is the Jawn Henry in 1956. 

It is too bad the box camera was all we had at that great era but I am glad we had it to record scenes that cannot be seen today.  We did take movies also in 55 and 56 but the transfer to video is not so great.

 CZ

[BaltACD]

CAZEPHYR

 The locomotive I am standing on in 1948 at the Chicago Rail Fair is the Cincinnatian P7d.  It might have been one of the locomotives that had been the Royal Blue orginally.  The Royal Blue American Flyer was my first model train in 1948.  CZ

 

 

President Pacific 5304 was the engine given the Otto Kuhler Streamlining for the late 30's Streamlined Royal Blue.  That iteration of shrouding only lasted until WW II.  The streamlining for the Cincinnatian was designed by a B&O employee Olive Dennis and was applied to President Pacifics 5301-5302-5303 and 5304 (the same engine that was streamlined for the Royal Blue.and American Flyer fame).

[CAZEPHYR]

BaltACD

CAZEPHYR

 The locomotive I am standing on in 1948 at the Chicago Rail Fair is the Cincinnatian P7d.  It might have been one of the locomotives that had been the Royal Blue orginally.  The Royal Blue American Flyer was my first model train in 1948.  CZ

 

 

President Pacific 5304 was the engine given the Otto Kuhler Streamlining for the late 30's Streamlined Royal Blue.  That iteration of shrouding only lasted until WW II.  The streamlining for the Cincinnatian was designed by a B&O employee Olive Dennis and was applied to President Pacifics 5301-5302-5303 and 5304 (the same engine that was streamlined for the Royal Blue.and American Flyer fame).

Thanks for the update.   We used to watch the B&O in Flora Illinois but the St. Louis line ran the normal 4-6-2's and 2-8-2's.    

The Royal Blue by American Flyer was the first model train I received at Christmas.    The Cincinnatian streamlining was much better looking to my thinking than the Royal Blue.   I cannot locate which one I am standing on at the Chicago Railfair so the actual road number is lost to me.    They were very nice looking locomotives.

CZ

 This is me playing fireman on the P7d.

 

 

[GP40-2]

CAZEPHYR

BaltACD

CAZEPHYR

 The locomotive I am standing on in 1948 at the Chicago Rail Fair is the Cincinnatian P7d.  It might have been one of the locomotives that had been the Royal Blue orginally.  The Royal Blue American Flyer was my first model train in 1948.  CZ

 

 

President Pacific 5304 was the engine given the Otto Kuhler Streamlining for the late 30's Streamlined Royal Blue.  That iteration of shrouding only lasted until WW II.  The streamlining for the Cincinnatian was designed by a B&O employee Olive Dennis and was applied to President Pacifics 5301-5302-5303 and 5304 (the same engine that was streamlined for the Royal Blue.and American Flyer fame).

Thanks for the update.   We used to watch the B&O in Flora Illinois but the St. Louis line ran the normal 4-6-2's and 2-8-2's.    

The Royal Blue by American Flyer was the first model train I received at Christmas.    The Cincinnatian streamlining was much better looking to my thinking than the Royal Blue.   I cannot locate which one I am standing on at the Chicago Railfair so the actual road number is lost to me.    They were very nice looking locomotives.

CZ

 This is me playing fireman on the P7d.

 

 

And they were as fast as they looked too. The B&O P7d had very powerful boilers, and coupled with their 80" drivers, they really could get a train flying. There is some pacing video on YouTube of a P7d effortlessly doing 80 to 90 mph with its train.