Start Foaming..Lets See the STEAM!!!

[VonRyan]

Veal and Mutton, YUM. 

-Cody F.

[atsf_arizona]

N scale SP 3930 steamer by Mike Blumensaadt, using a Japanese mallet as a starting point,
with a train of SP sugarbeet gon's following:



Mike tells me he's going to get around to putting pilot and trailing trucks to make the loco a 2-6-6-2, like the prototype.... someday   

[atsf_arizona]

Have we posted this one yet?  It won Best of Show at the 2012 Medford N Scale convention:



http://www.pbase.com/atsf_arizona/image/144437813

It's a superb model 

This N scale model by Dave Montgomery, won Best of Show in the Model Contest.

From some quick Internet research, info on the prototype and the model:

This model started out, I believe, as a Bachmann 2-6-6-2, and is a representation of SP class MM-3. Class MM-3 consisted of two little 2-6-6-2s, #3930 and #3931, that were WWII orphans from the Verde Tunnel & Smelter Railway in Jerome, Arizona. The pair of heavy compound articulated locomotives had rolled off the assembly line of Alco's’s Schenectady Works as construction numbers 61538 and 61539 in February of 1920, were placed in service in March of that year as VT&S R.R. 500 and 501, where they worked the steep grade between Jerome and Clarkdale Arizona. They were purchased by SP in 1943 during WWII to help ease power shortages, and spent almost their whole SP careers on the Los Angeles Division, helping on Beaumont Hill and in and around L.A. Number 3930 was the last of the compound SP Mallets to operate in active service as the "Colton drag engine" until 1954, when it was scrapped.

[superturbine]

Ah yes, the engine that defeated my first NP A-4!!! I do not feell bad having lost to this engine.

[superchief]

GREAT STUFF GUYS/ KEEP IT COMING!!! your right John thats a incredible engine, got to meet Dave at Tom Harts Layout, great modeler. Gordon

[hunter_alexander]

Brain, Welcome aboard.

Love that shot and the one with the Hudson from your site.

Glad to have another NYC fan on here. Superturbine makes a nice Niagara casting.

[Mike Madonna]

Have we posted this one yet?  It won Best of Show at the 2012 Medford N Scale convention:



http://www.pbase.com/atsf_arizona/image/144437813

It's a superb model 

This N scale model by Dave Montgomery, won Best of Show in the Model Contest.

From some quick Internet research, info on the prototype and the model:

This model started out, I believe, as a Bachmann 2-6-6-2, and is a representation of SP class MM-3. Class MM-3 consisted of two little 2-6-6-2s, #3930 and #3931, that were WWII orphans from the Verde Tunnel & Smelter Railway in Jerome, Arizona. The pair of heavy compound articulated locomotives had rolled off the assembly line of Alco's’s Schenectady Works as construction numbers 61538 and 61539 in February of 1920, were placed in service in March of that year as VT&S R.R. 500 and 501, where they worked the steep grade between Jerome and Clarkdale Arizona. They were purchased by SP in 1943 during WWII to help ease power shortages, and spent almost their whole SP careers on the Los Angeles Division, helping on Beaumont Hill and in and around L.A. Number 3930 was the last of the compound SP Mallets to operate in active service as the "Colton drag engine" until 1954, when it was scrapped.

Actually voted for this (well it IS an SP loco). Great example of a "cab-in-back" articulated (aside from the -9)!  John, thanks for the info and photo.... 

[UP4-8-8-4]

    Who also loves to double head ?
Lets see'em !
I have over 23 double headed sets, some with matching pushers from Athearns Big Boys, Challengers, 2-10-2s and so on.
But these double headed Key brass 2-6-6-6 Alleghaneys out pull the rest by far.





Gotta LOVE double heading ---------------------------------------- 




Ernie

[superturbine]

A rather rare double heading..... One that would be nice to see in this age-

[Cajonpassfan]

Jason, I second that!
Beautiful layout, too!
Otto

[UP4-8-8-4]

    Super double headed pic Jason !
In all my UP videos i've seen double headed Big Boys as well as double headed with Challengers and Gas Turbines, but never seen a FEF used as a double with a Challenger or Big Boy !



Ernie

[superturbine]

    Super double headed pic Jason !
In all my UP videos i've seen double headed Big Boys as well as double headed with Challengers and Gas Turbines, but never seen a FEF used as a double with a Challenger or Big Boy !



Ernie

I think you need to do more reading "son"!!  All the time with Challengers, big boys are more rare! BAhahahah


Question?  Now tell me what book is this from??
-Jason Smith

[UP4-8-8-4]

I think you need to do more reading "son"!!   BAhahahah


Question?  Now tell me what book is this from??
-Jason Smith

     OK, I need to go back and review my 16mm & 8mm films of the UP ----------------------- 



Ernie

[superduperchief]

A rather rare double heading..... One that would be nice to see in this age-

Awesome! I am foaming like a rabid dog.

[Brian M]

Thanks for the compliments, guys.  When I find a little time, I'll try to write up something about how I make my water in another thread, probably in the Layout Engineering Report area.  Although, that particular part of the Hudson River was done quite a few years ago, so it might take some brain power to remember exactly what I did.

In the meantime, here's another steam shot, a Hudson pulling a mail and express train south.  Same corner of the layout as the L-4 picture, but from the south side of the bridge.  I used this one for a recent short article I wrote about my layout for the NYCSHS quarterly magazine.



-Brian.