It's SWITCHER SATURDAY!! February 1,2025 edition.

@stangtrain posted:

My UP GP9 just arrived - greatest packaging ever from Lionel:

Nice looking engine. Number 312 was a Christmas gift to myself last month.

Gene

I’m aware this is page 2 of one of the best topics on the forum, and I’ll review page 1 soon, however I just wanted to participate with a few of my smaller switchers, and say Happy Railroading Everyone

I like your "Push, Bump & Ram" MTH VO1000, Patrick, although she doesn't look like she's been subjected to much rough treatment. As usual, great yard scenes to start us off!

For my SWSAT Sunday Supplement, I'm following the GP9 theme by featuring my newly-acquired MTH (formerly PS-1) NYC GP9 from 1994 that I'm converting over to Lionel LionChief with their GP7 board:

Shell temporarily installed with extended vision caboose:

"Under the hood" so far:

She was advertised as "Like New with Box" by the vendor I shall not name but proved to be a derelict operations-wise as the previous owner had made a mess of the PS-1 electronics. Since I was going to have to pay shipping to return her and I had a couple of spare LionChief/Flyerchief GP7 boards that Bob @RSJB18 had recommended for BEEP conversion, I thought I'd go for it with this GP9 since there was no cosmetic damage and all mechanicals were OK.

So far, I'm really happy with the low speed operation (flywheels and loco weight really help, compared to BEEPs) and it's nice to have everything already physically in place by MTH so only JST board connections are needed. I've yet to build up the lighting and connect the couplers and speaker. I will show the completed project here in the near future.

MTH PS2 Pennsy VO 1000:

Here it is hauling Lionel Postwar operating coal dump and log dump cars plus a few others and caboose:

Here's a pic of a Patapsco and Back Rivers Railroad Baldwin VO 1000 switcher that definitely looks like it well served the Push Bump and Ram for many years.  Actually this locomotive was first owned ( new ) by the Canton Railroad, another Baltimore City short line switching railroad, then sold to the PB&R who rebuilt the prime mover and later sold the locomotive back to the Canton RR. (  I think? MTH is recently offering the Canton version of this locomotive.     I snapped this photo several years ago at the Baltimore & Ohio Museum in Baltimore.  This particular engine still has its' Baldwin prime mover!

@Leroof, thank you so much Pierre.  NYC Plymouth No. 34 has been posted on the work bench along with several other items.

Got dumb lucky!! Icken 0-8-0 switcher on the way!!

A beauty, Dennis.

Tom

Here is an older photo of my Navy switcher moving dodx flatccars.

@Dennis Holler, @PRR8976, @ssm, great posts today. If you can, please re-post to today's Switcher Party here:

https://ogrforum.com/topic/it-...-8-25-edition?page=2