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C&TSRR, 2006
Decatur, IL Live Steam Illinois Terminal Division, Midwest Region, NMRA Visit (a few years back)
How you make steam...
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
I just wanted to come back to say Thank You to all who participated in this thread. I always enjoy looking at a good steamer picture. I counted 25 of them in one posting of yours Wayne. NICE!
Hopefully the air clears out there one of these days so Judy and I can go back up to Duluth. We sure enjoy the Steamer Ride up the North Shore of Lake Superior. The Lakeview and scenery out the Train window is beautiful.
Thanks again to all who made the thread enjoyable with all the great Steamer pictures!
TF
Nice one!
LNER Thompson B1 locomotive number 1264 seen on North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Grosmont Station.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
Track fiddlerBut I hope you guys still have more Steamers to post because I sure am enjoying them
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Other than the last three, all are my own photos.
Wayne
my 2-8-8-0 that i sold and lost in the mail sadly
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.
Alvie
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
Silly NT's, I have Asperger's Syndrome
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 3751
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 them
emdmikeAster live steam gauge 1 Southern Railway(UK) Schools class 4-4-0.
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...
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.
British Columbia Heritage Railway's H1e Royal Hudson, formerly CPR 2860.
Track fiddlerThat other steamer was quite funny DSchmitt. Especially after the oysters were done Overmod
There's a variety of the following out there, but for raw visceral impact combined with railfan excitement...
Chama:
Cumbres Pass:
'Richboro' on the Aln Valley Railway, Alnwick, England
An un-colorized NYC K-5b Pacific in Mercury dress:
mercury 1936 by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
NZGR Ja1275 reversing on to the turntable at Te Kuiti, August 2017.
Trainman440 ^LOL Colorized myself. Charles
^LOL
Colorized myself.
Charles
A steamer with wheel wells. Now I have seen everything and my life is complete Charles!
And it really makes me wonder how you could see where you were going driving that thing 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 way
That other steamer was quite funny DSchmitt. Especially after the oysters were done Overmod
DSchmitt
IMG_7197 by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
Cumbres & Toltec, 2007.
Mark P.
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Modeling the PRR & NYC in HO
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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.
"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." -Lin Yutang
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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.
Love em!
One of Casey Jones's parked in Jackson Tennessee 2018
A Reading T-1:
2102_T-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
— and a Nickel Plate S-2 Berkshire:
IMG_5319 by Edmund, on Flickr
Durango
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
Strasburg #90
Sheldon