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

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Have a terrific and safe weekend everyone!  Keep those switches aligned, attend to your switch lists, and green signals to all!

.This week I have a video showing three switchers ( and a trolley ) earning their keep on the the Free State Junction Railway.   A B&O GP9 is at the point of a passenger extra.  A Washington Terminal Co.  RS 1 drops off a junk gondola, and a Pennsy A5 is at the point of a way freight.  All three would be found coexisting on the rails during the era I model .. The Transition Era.  The GP 9 is a MTH Railking with Proto 2 and is set up as a dual purpose locomotive outfitted with steam generator and air reservoirs relocated to the roof.   The RS1 is an Atlas O model, and the A5 is by K line.  All three of these locomotives have proven to be good runners and are  very reliable.  

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Not a great photo but here are the three locomotives on another part of the layout. IMG_5826

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Long Island Rail Road B-6 0-6-0 steam switcher is an MTH Railking Imperial model (30-1710-1) delivered in 2017 with PS3 at MSRP $449.95. MTH Imperial steamers are upgraded Railking models with a real coal load, legible builder’s plate, engineer and fireman figures, and tender truck safety chains.

The MTH model represents a superheated B-6sb, of which 238 were built between 1916 and 1920. The engines weighed 180,300 pounds (tender not included), developed 36,140 pounds tractive effort, and had 56-inch driving wheels.

After the Pennsylvania Railroad purchased the Long Island Rail Road in 1900, the PRR leased and sold various types of locomotives to the LIRR. However, only one or two superheated B-6s locomotives, including B-6sb #2015, are known to have run on Long Island. Instead, the PRR sent to the LIRR at least twenty less powerful B-8 0-6-0 locomotives that were not superheated.

Why was this MTH model numbered #170? Records show that #170 was an 0-6-0 Class B-53sb steam switcher built by Baldwin for the LIRR in 1913. It was not a PRR design and did not come from the PRR. #2015 would have been a more realistic number, and that is what K-Line and Lionel used on their B-6sb models.

Photos and videos show this smooth-running engine on my 10’-by-5’ layout.

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