05/25/25

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  It's also a double digit day!  😁  Today's image is from my little steam up that I did on my new/used raised layout not too long ago.  Today's locomotive that I ran that day is the first live steam locomotive that I had.  It's an Accucraft Mimi locomotive.  This one is very picky about where it is run because, without remote control, on an uneven layout, it can run very quickly and derail.  It's very nice to have a level surface to run it on when I want.  I usually could only run it at a friend's house on his layout.

I have a short video of it operating on YouTube HERE.

05/11/25

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  Today's image is my yearly Spring photo that I photograph on my ground layout with the miniature Lilac.  It bloomed quite well this year.  I took the photos in the evening so the sky color made for a nice backdrop.  The locomotive is my Live Steam Accucraft Mimi.

05/12/24

 It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog!  Sharing another Spring image since it's the season.  😁  This one shows off the locomotive more.  My dwarf Lilac only had about 4 blooms this year.  Very weird Spring this year.  This is my Accucraft Live Steam Mimi and it's train.

12/19/21

 It's Steamy Sunday once again on the Blog!  Today starts the Christmas week so I thought this image was appropriate for today.  This image is a variation of one of the photos for my Christmas card this year.  I took it back in late January when we got a bit of snow.  It's my Live Steam Accucraft Mimi locomotive pulling some ore cars through town.  My railroad needs a lot of work in the coming year.  The deck refurb took precedence so need to get back to working on the railroad.  😄

6/16/19

Steamy Sunday has arrived again and my image today is another of the live steam garden railway type.  This is my Accucraft Mimi locomotive pulling it's log train around a friend's raised layout.  It looks like it is about to lose a log as well unfortunately.  Need to fix that.  😄 I also posted a video on Youtube of this locomotive in action in a spot right after where this image was taken if you would like to check it out.  
It can be found here: Mimi Video

5/15/16

It's getting a bit chilly at night these days but I am glad we are not like the Dakotas where they were having frost warnings and definite freezes.  Yikes!  My image for today is of more Garden Railway fun and it is a bit different.  I captured my Mimi Locomotive pulling it's train on our friend's track and I really liked the motion blur created in the shot that showed it was moving.