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WELCOME to SWITCHER SATURDAY!! The weekly thread celebrating those smallish locomotives that CAN & DO any given task assigned.

If you love those do all do anything locomotives that are the backbone of a railroad, you have clicked on THE thread that celebrates all things switching locomotives! If you are new to this thread please consider posting a photo of your favorite switcher from your layout. We'd love to see what you have!

A vast majority of us who frequent this thread love those small ( and not so small ) locomotives that can perform all the tasks given by any railroad. Yep! Switchers do it all ... switching in yards, at the point of way freights, industrial switching, switching at larger passenger stations, heading a MOW train ... including pushing snow plows, switching tight curvature on city streets & harbor areas, at the point of both commuter passenger trains and long distance passenger trains.

Switcher Saturday (SwSat) welcomes your photos, videos, and information/discussion regarding switching locomotives, steam, diesel, and electric of all gauges and scales from Z - G ... and even real life 1:1 scale too! We'd be honored to have you join us by posting pics and videos of your switchers. We'd also love reading any information regarding toy, model, or prototypical switchers.

I hope everyone had a great week! It's been yet another busy week for me, but I do manage to get some layout work done daily even if only 10 minutes. Got to keep the layout building muscle flexed .. lol!

I'm looking forward to see what you all post. SwSat is such a great thread for learning about switching locomotives. So have at it everyone! Post away!

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Due to a super busy week for me, I've had to dive into the archives, with the exception of the bottom photo showing the rear end of a BL2. All photos are of action at Butler Junction.

I'm exciting to see what everyone posts in this edition of SwSat! I wish everyone a wonderful and safe weekend!!!

Pennsy 44 tonner ( Williams by Bachman ) headed to the coach yard as a Fairbanks- Morse Train Master ( Williams ) waits orders to couple on the awaiting train of coal hoppers.

B&O SW9 ( MTH RailKing PS2 ) has dropped its' caboose and backs up a siding to pick up some gondolas.

C&O 0-8-0 ( Lionel with TMCC ) takes on water at the tank.

The rear of Western Maryland BL2 ( MTH Premier PS 2) number 81 as it has just dropped off a horse car.

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pennsyfanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Thanks for starting off this SWSAT Patrick.
The NWS EARLE BEEP Switcher has been dispatched to pick up the USCG 3731 Boxcar that was dropped at the Team track 5 days late and cut it into the Veterans Salute train before it leaves town.

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MELGAROGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

My steam switcher for this Saturday is Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal #15, an 0-6-0T by Lionel (2032020) – and the smallest model steam engine in my collection. Lionel lists its length as 8.5 inches.

The apparent prototype for Lionel’s model is a 1910 Alco 0-6-0T industrial steam switcher shown in a drawing on page 32 of Model Railroader Cyclopedia – Volume 1 – Steam Locomotives, by Linn H. Westcott. It gives a length of about 32 feet (8 inches in 1:48 O scale) over coupler faces with 44-inch driving-wheel diameter.

Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal was a waterfront railroad that handled freight cars floated on barges across New York harbor from New Jersey to Brooklyn. The railroad had 11 miles of track at its peak and ran steam locomotives until 1963. It was acquired by the New York Cross Harbor Railroad in 1983.

Also running on my 12’-by-8’ layout this week (not a switcher) is New York Central 4-6-0 #1244, a Lionel ten wheeler (2431660) and a recent acquisition. Lionel has been making versions of this NYC prototype since at least 2002 and they did a great job on this one. It’s my 5th Lionel ten-wheeler.

BEDT #15 ran on the layout’s O-36 inner loop and NYC #1244 ran on the O-54 middle loop. As shown on the videos, the O-36 loop runs through a narrow rock cut. BEDT #15 is heading-up a short freight train with two NYC wood cabooses and NYC #1244 is trailed by two unlettered wood-sided coaches – some of my favorite railroad cars – all by MTH.

#1244 was built by Alco in November 1907 and began service on the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad as Class F-2e #2118. It was reclassified to NYC Class F-12e and renumbered #831 when superheated in February 1916. Weight was 208,000 pounds with 31,900 pounds tractive effort at steam pressure 200 pounds-per-square-inch with 69-inch driving wheels. It was renumbered to #1244 in 1948 and retired in February 1952.

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