IT's SWITCHER SATURDAY!!! March 23 Edition!

@jim sutter posted:

Darrell,

I alwats thought that your plasticville factory was one of the nicest buildings they made.

I think so too!

@Bill Swatos posted:

Me, too! I've heard that they've stopped making the "Mini-Commander" that fits in the BEEP. Is there an alternative?

Blunami's fit, should only really need the 2 amp version which should leave room for the rectifier circuit needed to run on AC power.

Girl's night out.

PREMIER ps3  Pennsy USRA O-6-0

PREMIER ps2  C&NW 0-8-0

Premier ps2  Southern

Have a good Saturday evening.  God Speed all.

@bluelinec4 posted:

Two Rochester and Southern SW1200's working the refinery

Super terrific refinery sir.

Sorry I am Late

I am learning to take pictures with Smart Phone Then Emailing them to myself .  The Cords to transfer photos with Win 11 are a hassle .

Any way I bought 2 new & 1 slightly new switchers  with in  the last 2 months .

The Burlington one is a Trade deal from a train store .

MELGAR,

This one is for you.

Sometime in the summer or fall of 1976, freshly painted  CONRAIL SW8 #8619 slowly pulls a freshly painted BOSTON & MAINE 200 Anniversary PS1 boxcar and a new to CONRAIL  northeast caboose past the passenger staging yard on my totally unsceniced 13’x40’ layout.
The engine and cars are by Atlas.

As Melgar has shown, there is something very appealing about running a short train slowly.

How about some Monday morning Trackmobile action?  Have a hard time getting traction on little used rails.  Getting ready to offload some condenser tubes onto the flat cars for 6 mo storage.

@ctr posted:

MELGAR,

As Melgar has shown, there is something very appealing about running a short train slowly.

@ctr,

I don't think there's anything unusual about a short train running slowly. Yard operations by switchers would always be at low speed, often with only a few cars.

MELGAR

Hey folks, this is a Belgian Cockrell Switcher locomotive as photographed by reddit user bison92.  It is posted here with written permission of bison92 and OGR.

This was recently captured at the Railroad museum in Catalunya Spain, near Barcelona.   It's a 1901 built machine that saw second life as a stationary boiler. I think it's awesome and I want one!

Here's some links to the museum website and an info page

https://360carmuseum.com/en/museum/16/exhibit/835

The museum site has a translate to English button and the info came up in English to start with.

Enjoy!

Dallas, that's the refinery on the NJHR layout.

@bluelinec4 posted:

Two Rochester and Southern SW1200's working the refinery

Welcome to Switcher Saturday Ben!

@jhz563 posted:

Hey folks, this is a Belgian Cockrell Switcher locomotive as photographed by reddit user bison92.  It is posted here with written permission of bison92 and OGR.

This was recently captured at the Railroad museum in Catalunya Spain, near Barcelona.   It's a 1901 built machine that saw second life as a stationary boiler. I think it's awesome and I want one!

Here's some links to the museum website and an info page

https://360carmuseum.com/en/museum/16/exhibit/835

The museum site has a translate to English button and the info came up in English to start with.

Enjoy!

I really like the early photo on the website showing the "cab" on this little gal. It seems it would be possible to model one in G scale starting with a K-Line K2625 chassis...

@Bill Swatos posted:

I really like the early photo on the website showing the "cab" on this little gal. It seems it would be possible to model one in G scale starting with a K-Line K2625 chassis...

Ha, I meant I want one, full size!  Especially with that little cab.  It could sit in the backyard when not in use and be trailered to where you want it.  Think how jealous the speeder gang would be!