Re: It's SWITCHER SATURDAY 12/14/24

trumpettrainOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Hello fellow switcher fans and welcome to another great edition of SWITCHER SATURDAY!! This is the thread which celebrates those small ( and not so small ) locomotives that are the do all do anything variety which, in essence, is the backbone of any railroad. This thread is open to all gauges from Z - G plus 1:1 gauge as well! So feel free to show us your switchers in action or just sitting on a shelf. We'd love to see them!!

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This weekend is a super busy one for me with several performances and rehearsals, so no time to prepare anything at length. I'm posting this photo of switchers taken last weekend on the Free State Junction Railway. These are a Pennsy 44 tonner by Bachman, a Washington Terminal RS 1 by MTH with Proto 3, and a Williams GP 9 ( non powered unit )

A THOUGHT FOR NEXT WEEK's SwSat ... since it will be the weekend before Christmas; how bout posting some photos/ movies of Christmas switchers if you have them and/or switchers pulling or pushing some Christmas cars. Just a thought since many of us got our start with model trains under the Christmas tree. And as always feel free to post any kind of non Christmas holiday related switcher you wish. We'd love to see what you have.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone. I hope you all are enjoying the holiday season to the max!! Keep those switches aligned and green signals to all!!

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MELGAROGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

I bought New Haven Alco RS-3 #527 (Railking 30-2897-1, PS2 3-Volt, June 2009, MSRP $299.95) new-in-box for a bargain price at a recent train show in Cheshire, Connecticut, a suburb of New Haven. I attended the show just to walk around and see what people are doing in the hobby but I didn’t intend to buy an engine… This is my third New Haven RS-3 in the original orange and dark green paint scheme. I have a K-Line, an Atlas O, and now a Railking version.

When I got home, I replaced the battery with a BCR2 and gave it a brief test run that checked out OK in conventional operation. PS3 versions of the Railking RS-3 have a smoke unit but this one with PS2 does not. Doesn't matter to me because I never run smoke.

Train shows around New Haven often have New Haven Railroad models for sale. Not surprising. They also have a good selection of postwar American Flyer which apparently was popular in the area after A.C. Gilbert moved the company from Chicago to New Haven in 1937.

#527 was one of 20 Class DERS-2c locomotives delivered to the New Haven Railroad in 1950 and worked in Boston in its early years. These engines had 1600 horsepower, steam generators for passenger service, and ran at speeds up to 80 miles-per-hour on the Shoreline and Hartford Divisions. In the late 1950s, they were repainted with black cabs and orange hoods. New Haven #527 was rebuilt by Alco in 1962 and was still in service when the New Haven was merged into Penn Central in 1969.

Photos and video show #527 running conventionally on my 10’-by-5’ layout.

MELGAR

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Arnold D. CribariOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Great start, as usual, Patrick.

My contribution for this edition of Switcher Saturday, is my MTH PS3 Boston and Maine S-2 diesel switcher.

By the way, I just started a new thread about Trading Trains, and my nearby train nut friend, Rick, desperately wanted to make a trade with me in which he would get this switcher. Since I still love this switcher a lot, there was no way I would be willing to part with it.

Hope you enjoy the photos and videos below: