Random steam pics thread

[Terry Toenges]

When I looked at that one, it reminded me of all the folks on here who complain about people trying to run big locos on tight curves and the overhang it creates.

[bbmiroku]

To be fair though, most of the time, the overhang on the prototype would max out at just over what was in that pic, while in small scale, even at large-radius curves the boiler is hanging over thin air if it was scaled back up.

[Terry Toenges]

It would drive some people plum crazy if they had to watch my O27 "General" on standard O27 track. I could probably put a mower blade on the pilot to keep the weeds down along the outside of curves.

[Trainman203]

Thanks for the MP pictures.  I'd seen the first two, the others were new to me.

[Flare]

Here's something you don't see every day, a one-truck Heisler.

[bbmiroku]

For when you need a train, but only have room for a train car.

[ebtnut]

I'm pretty sure that little Heisler is a fireless loco.  No visible stack and the fat boiler.  Heisler made a number of fireless locos over the years.  I saw one in operation at a power plant in Alexandria, VA back in the early 1970's.

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