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It's SWITCHER SATURDAY February 15, 2025 Edition!

trumpettraintrumpettrainOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Hello switcher fans!!  Welcome to Switcher Saturday!!!  Switcher Saturday ( SwSat)  is THE thread which celebrates by discussion, photos, and videos all things related to switching locomotives both in model  and in real forms.      It doesn't matter what gauge you model in, for SwSat welcomes your photos/videos and/or information for  all gauges from Z- G and real 1:1 gauge as well!  

We ask that you abide by OGR Forum Terms of Service found by clicking on TOS at the top of this page.  As a reminder please post only photos/videos  you have taken.  If you post someone else's photo/video/information be sure to have their express written permission.  Posting copyrighted photos/ videos/ material is a violation of copyright law and violators are legally liable.  

As always, I'm excited to see what you all post!  We greatly learn from one another and you all have so much to share from rehab and upgrade projects, historical and technical information of both model and real switchers and switching railroads, to terrific photos of the latest high tech switchers, post and prewar switchers.  AND of course we as a community learn from all the content you provide.  So please feel free to post your photos and/or information!

For this edition of SwSat I'm digging way back into the archives and have put together a flow of pictures showing a B&O SW9  switcher with 1,200 hp The first photo shows the SW9 early in the morning on the service track, as it's  readied for the day.     The later pics show the SW9 on its' switching assignment.

For next week's SWSAT I'll be showing a new arrival which should be showing up on the property sometime mid-week.  Until then have a FUNTASTIC weekend and week ahead!!  Remember ... Safety First and keep those switch lists maintained, your switches aligned and those switchers rolling!  Green signals to all!!  See ya all right here on SwSat next week!   Now ya'll post away!!!

The service crew has completed their tasks.  Service foreman Bert Sgruggs yells to the hostler " The tanks are topped off and the sand bins are full!  This engine is ready to roll!"  

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Brakenman Arturo Sandoval is on the ground as a rail fan observes the action.

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Hmmmm ... I wonder if the coffee pot is on inside the caboose?

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The crew just picked up a gon of scrap from Scovitche's Scrap & Salvage Yard.

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Arnold D. CribariArnold D. CribariOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Patrick, I bet that you enjoy starting Switcher Saturday so much that you often do so, like you have tonight, before it’s actually Saturday.

I do the same thing with STEAMday Sunday, sometimes starting it a couple of hours before it’s Sunday, because I’m so excited to start that thread each week.

My switcher to show off this week is one of my best: a Legacy Susquehanna diesel switcher whose sounds were recently restored by a fine technician.  Here it is leading a mixed consist of passenger and freight cars through a passing siding on my layout:

I acquired this diesel switcher a couple of years ago in a trade I made with a local model train buddy. Arnold

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New York Central SW8 diesel switcher #9620 is an Atlas O model (6105-2) delivered in 2001 at MSRP $349.95. It has a highly detailed diecast shell and a smooth-running mechanism with a single horizontal motor and two flywheels. It also has fixed pilots but the sounds on my model are substandard.

New York Central SW8 #9620 (NYC Class DES-18) was built in February 1953 and eventually went to Penn Central and Conrail. It had an 8-cylinder 800 horsepower GM 567B diesel engine and maximum speed of 65 miles-per-hour. New York Central data shows a continuous tractive effort of 31,200 pounds at 7 miles-per-hour which is equivalent to 581 horsepower at the rails. Other sources say 57,000 pounds starting tractive effort. Weight was 230,000 pounds.

Photos and videos show the model running on the O-36 inner loop of my 12’-by-8’ layout.

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pennsyfanpennsyfanOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER

Thanks Patrick for starting up this great thread for another great time.
O'Leary and Clancy were mumbling under their breath when the Chief Dispatcher assigned them a job just before end of shift. They were assigned the PRR 44 Tonner to pick up two cars at the interchange track and move them through town to the warehouse. They would be late for Happy Hour. When they arrived at the interchange track their eyes went wide open. They were picking two spirits cars! All the way through town all they talked about was would they get a taste of the good stuff as a thank you?

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Arnold D. CribariArnold D. CribariOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
@trumpettrain posted:

Peter, I LOVE milk trains as I know you do too.    Your NYO&W switcher look terrific!!  Thanks too for your kind words!

Since you say. Patrick, that you love milk trains, here’s another one for you with one of my best steam switchers, an MTH PS3 Long Island B6 switcher on the point:

Arnold

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trumpettraintrumpettrainOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBERDIGITAL SUBSCRIBER
@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Patrick, I bet that you enjoy starting Switcher Saturday so much that you often do so, like you have tonight, before it’s actually Saturday.

I do the same thing with STEAMday Sunday, sometimes starting it a couple of hours before it’s Sunday, because I’m so excited to start that thread each week.

My switcher to show off this week is one of my best: a Legacy Susquehanna diesel switcher whose sounds were recently restored by a fine technician.  Here it is leading a mixed consist of passenger and freight cars through a passing siding on my layout:

I acquired this diesel switcher a couple of years ago in a trade I made with a local model train buddy. Arnold

Hey Arnold!  Your Susquehanna switcher is certainly easy on the eye!  You did well in that trade with your train buddy.  Thanks for showing us this beautiful switcher!!  Great milk train and 0-6-0 too!! Got to love that high pitched whistle

Yep, I like to get an early start on SwSat because one, I love preparing the thread and, like you,  am super excited to get it going.  Two, because I have to be up so early each Saturday morning in order to get to Baltimore to teach at an outreach/prep music program ... I don't have time to fix anything in the SwSat post if there were something to go wrong. AND at tiymes I have had problems posting in the past and it's taken hours to fix.  ( Long story for another time. )  

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