My one steamer

[cnrglen]

Modelling Western Canada 1959 there were very few Steam engines left. Both CN and CP dieselized thesed areas by the mid fifties. My logging branch, however still runs steam, with a 0-6-0t on the standard guage



Its a Bachmann Spectrum engine, runs really nice except for it's a bit lacking in the pulling department. I re-decalled it to my lumber company (Caribou Lumber)

I have an MDC/roundhouse 0-8-0t static kit for the narrowguage branch but I haven't finished it yet

[m a y o r 79]

Kool, how many cars can it pull? Or is that boxcar giving it a run for its money

[cnrglen]

It will pull about 5-6 cars on level track. It's abit fussy about clean track, given it's short wheelbase.
it has a Digitraz DZ-123 decoder in it

[jwhite07]

I too have one steam engine on my Y2K-era Class III railroad. Originally it was an old Tyco 2-8-0 that I spiffed up cosmetically, mostly because I wanted something I could run under the Christmas tree every year. It did look really nice with my heavyweight business car train, but I found that it barely ran by itself, and really struggled with the four cars of the business train. I resorted to shoving it around the circle of track under the tree with a GP7 diesel coupled behind.

While I was at the Springfield MA hobby show, a Bachmann Spectrum 2-8-0 caught my eye. It was being offered for a VERY good price, and even had a DCC decoder. I said what the heck and bought it. When I got it home and inspected it, I found that the DCC decoder was in fact a Soundtraxx sound decoder! Well, my very first sound-equipped locomotive! And it ran very smootly, too. Not something to just run under the Christmas tree, this - I started getting visions of Operation Lifesaver specials and fall foliage excursions for my railroad too.

While I was preparing to repaint it, I looked at it and thought that it really wasn't evocative of any heritage of the predecessor railroads that my railroad had become. It didn't look Downeast Maine or Maritime New Brunswick at all, if that's a "look". So I did some research and stumbled upon the Canadian Pacific-style vestibule cab and tender oil bunker offered by Athabasca Scale Shops. Now THAT would look neat - I swear I'm really not much of a steam fan, honest, but I always thought CP's steamers had a distinctive look, and since part of my freelance railroad operates on former CP lines in New Brunswick, I figured why not. Substitute CP Maroon with Maine Central green and a nod is given to the heritage of the railroad on the US side as well.

So, without further ado, I present AHNC #10, the "Princess of Fundy". Now I'll get back to my GP38-2s and U18Bs and SW1500s.

www.flickr.com/photos/42026337@N07/14334110725

(Apologies for the direct link - attaching the photo was not working despite several attempts)

[tjmfishing]

Jun 2, 2014 21:03:30 GMT -5 jwhite07 said:

I too have one steam engine on my Y2K-era Class III railroad. Originally it was an old Tyco 2-8-0 that I spiffed up cosmetically, mostly because I wanted something I could run under the Christmas tree every year. It did look really nice with my heavyweight business car train, but I found that it barely ran by itself, and really struggled with the four cars of the business train. I resorted to shoving it around the circle of track under the tree with a GP7 diesel coupled behind.

While I was at the Springfield MA hobby show, a Bachmann Spectrum 2-8-0 caught my eye. It was being offered for a VERY good price, and even had a DCC decoder. I said what the heck and bought it. When I got it home and inspected it, I found that the DCC decoder was in fact a Soundtraxx sound decoder! Well, my very first sound-equipped locomotive! And it ran very smootly, too. Not something to just run under the Christmas tree, this - I started getting visions of Operation Lifesaver specials and fall foliage excursions for my railroad too.

While I was preparing to repaint it, I looked at it and thought that it really wasn't evocative of any heritage of the predecessor railroads that my railroad had become. It didn't look Downeast Maine or Maritime New Brunswick at all, if that's a "look". So I did some research and stumbled upon the Canadian Pacific-style vestibule cab and tender oil bunker offered by Athabasca Scale Shops. Now THAT would look neat - I swear I'm really not much of a steam fan, honest, but I always thought CP's steamers had a distinctive look, and since part of my freelance railroad operates on former CP lines in New Brunswick, I figured why not. Substitute CP Maroon with Maine Central green and a nod is given to the heritage of the railroad on the US side as well.

So, without further ado, I present AHNC #10, the "Princess of Fundy". Now I'll get back to my GP38-2s and U18Bs and SW1500s.

www.flickr.com/photos/42026337@N07/14334110725

(Apologies for the direct link - attaching the photo was not working despite several attempts)

I like the idea of running on old CP lines in NB with a freelanced railroad.  Sort of reminds me of what Doug Devine in St John did with his Island Central Railway, which combines the operations of CN and CP in southern NB (very accurately I might add) with a fictional shortline operating on both, with locomotives painted in Maine Central's yellow and green look.

Tell us more as time goes on.

[analogbeatmaker]

Arrgh...where'd the pic go?!?!

[jwhite07]

Jun 4, 2014 20:15:45 GMT -5 analogbeatmaker said:

Arrgh...where'd the pic go?!?!

Follow the link to the photo on my Flickr page. Unfortunately I couldn't get the BBCode to work correctly for some reason.

tjmfishing - thanks for the kind words!