Today I received my new issue of Steam Glory. Ohhhhhh Baby. [:D] I love the color photo section of the steamers. [:)] I have just given it a quick going over. It looks like a very good issue. [8D] [:)] [;)]
It just makes me wish I could have been around and seen all the beautiful steam engines while they were in their glory years. [:(] Man oh man I wish I had.
I wish i could have seen more.most were gone before I was born.
stay safe
joe
Have you all seen this new issue? It is REALLY GOOD. [:)] I am enjoying it very much. If you don’t get it by mail then by all means go buy one at the bookstore. It is money and time WELL spent. [;)]
What do YOU like best about it. Personally I like it all. [:p] [8D] [:)]
I agree with all of you. Well I was around when some of this equipment was running. My Grandfather was a Yardmaster for the Southern RY. When I was a kid in the late 40’s he would take me to work and I would “help” by stamping bills of lading for him. He was then an old timer and knew everyone on the line. Many times he would have one of his engineer friends take me on a coal run or some other short job that would get me back to the yard.
If I knew then what I know now…
Ken
kbrant,
[:)] If all of us knew then what we know now[?]
What would we really be doing[?]
[:(][8)]I really should have taken more pictures
around Russell,Ky. back in the early sixtys[8].
That was then,and un fortunely I can’t go back in time.
Guess I’ll have to get the book and drool like the rest
of you all[:(] Russell was a temporary home for lots of
steam,then right to Mansbach Metals in Ashland.
[8)] coalminer3 send me an e-mail,maybe we can compare
some on the C&O.
Later Guys I’m getting[l)]
locomutt
When I was a teen I spend a summer in the Catlettsburg / Ashland area. [:)]
Jim[:)]
Iguess you saw a lot of Big Sandy Juction[?]
Dog,we’ll make a C & O fan out of you yet[8D] [^]
locomutt[8D]
Well I do remember seeing alot of the nice “Chessie” painted engines. One of the better paint schemes ever to grace a loco. [:)]
JIM[:)]
Well, guess you did see Big Sandy Jct.[8D]
As far as the paint scheme,you got my vote![:D] [:)]
I think I mentioned it before,but myoldest cats
name is Virginia Chessie! [:)]
Hoped you liked that area.
locomutt[:D] [8D]
I have a question straight from the new issue of Steam Glory. [:)]
Check out page 46. What in the world is that monstrosity by and on the smokestack? I have seen stack caps but none that looked like this. Also the caption says the engine is underway therefore a stack cap would NOT be on then. The stack caps I have seen are basically a “lid” with a handle that fit over the stack and help to hold heat in while the engine sits idle.
Who can solve this mystery? [?]
Santa Fe 4-8-4s had stack extenders that the engineer could raise and lower as needed. The object of this device was to get the smoke up and away from the train. (The same reason that other railroads added “elephant ears”, the shield-like plates beside the smokebox.) The bars on the side of the stack are part of the raising/lowering mechanism.
AltonFan [:)]
Thanks for the info. [:)]
Just goes to prove that you can learn something new every day. I just did. [;)]
How many of you got to read any of the new issue of Steam Glory over the Christmas break? [?]
Isn’t it a super magazine? [?]
I LIKE IT. [:)]
And to think I didn’t buy it because it didn’t have any GN info, my lovely wife brought it home for me a few weeks back and I haven’t put it down since!
I really enjoyed the article “Supernovas of Steam”, so much in fact I ordered the authers book “Perfecting the American Steam Locomotive”!
Don’t know about you but I certainly would LOVE to see more of these, at least a couple a year, maybe quarterly - monthly would be asking for too much I fear!
Kindest Regards,
PeteH
I got my issue and absolutely loved it!!! All very excellent articles they were! It makes me mad that I was born to late to have seen these beauties in action!
Steam Glory 2 is one of those rare times that the promise is delivered. It teased good stuff and there it is, for all to see and enjoy. And that is quite a trick for an over analyzed subject that has been gone from USA’s mainlines for 46 years. My ranking: #7 “Green Giants.” What BIG, FAT beauties! I never knew. Thanks. #6 “Reading Shops” the Reading motive power gets some respect. (I just wish there was images and stories of the men in the shops.) #5 “Southern Pacific’s Painted Ladies.” What a treasure! I have seen black and white photos of the one of the engines but to have almost all in COLOR! Awesome. #4“An Unforgettable Ride”, the story and great color of Pennsy K4s’ in their last days. (I could have seen them if my Dad only knew!) #3 “A Day With Engineer Herbel.” Wow! GREAT photojournalism! I wish I had taken Art Hanford’s shot on page 66-67 of fireman Pease yanking the water column over. What a great shot. (Pease’s right foot in the air makes it for me.) #2 Every few pages, like being handed a vanilla ice cream sundae with chocolate fudge while watching your favorite movie, we get landscape format, gutter free, suitable-for-framing COLOR photos of STEAM! I liked “Streamliner At Rest” on page 37, “Gathering At The Mount” page 68 and “Steam and Bilevels-1 and 2” pages 84/85. GEE WHIZ!!` #1 Incredible at it seems to me at this late date of 2006, “Streamlining the Centrals Thoroughbreds” actually presents NEW information. Here we finally see what was in the minds of two great steam designers and how they created their finest creations. However, what is most fantastic is the knowledge imparted by the article that the original respective locomotives drawings were opposite the ultimate historic value of the final designs. Today the pontificators of taste state that Kantola design for the Commodore Vanderbilt is inferior because of the slant nose and even worse, the covering of the running gear. Instead we see in the original design an abbreviated slant nose and FULL visual a
Whew, amazing how some of these threads fall out of bed and rise again!
LOL. Check the date.
Yeah, well!!! It was late, too much wine, etc., etc… Anyway, “Steam Glory 2” is terrific and I just wanted to say so. Also I need now to redirect my kudos to “Classic Trains” and “Steam Glory 2” Editor Robert S. McGonigal rather than “Trains” Editor Jim Wrinn. (Jim, the January 2007 is terrific also!) One more mistake attributed to the same aforementioned reasons… (Those time stamps are REALLY tiny…) 
I picked up the Steam Glory Two last night as a impulse. I spent an hour back in the steam enjoying the meat and potatoes of the entire issue.
AWESOME. If everything was this good there would be no problems!
I hope they do a Glory Three.
Yep, i got Steam Glory2 yesterday, and yep, it’s absolutely awesome. Especially love the Crown Steam 1954 article with the Canadian Engines, can’t beat that!! I hope to go to BC or Alberta to see and go on the CPR 2816 H1-b Hudson, and also go to Alberta to see the APR in Stettler, where the handsome beast the 6060 Mountain type resides. Can’t wait til Steam Glory3 which i think should be all about current Steam Excursion Railways.
