IT's SWITCHER SATURDAY!!! Nov. 4, 2017 Edition

Yay! SWSat is On!

Thanks for getting things rolling Patrick.

This week I am going to post some pics of the Port Jarvis Enginehouse on the 2 rail Oscale NYSME layout. As you can see the stalls are full of switchers. 

Here is a nice FM Here are some subway work engines I caught last week. 

Have a great weekend guys. 

Very cool switchers! I like the shot of the control stand on the MTA switcher. Very interesting! 

My switcher....no scenery yet! Starting next spring. In the meantime, the test track gets a workout!

Tom

Happy Switcher Saturday everyone. Thanks for running things Patrick. 

My contribution is the dusty "grandpa" of KRIEGLOK's picture.

Tom 

Happy SWSat!

Thanks for pinch hitting this week Patrick. Great stuff everyone.

We were in Washington DC last week. Busy weekend but we had a blast. Got to ride the DC Metro. Big change from the NYC Subway system. This is one long escalator, this is on the Red line, Woodley Park/National Zoo station. The vertical rise is 102'.

Locally PRR 99 has been working the fuel depot.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Bob

Great shots everyone.  Thanks for keeping Switcher Saturday going this week Patrick.

No switcher this week for me hope you guy's will except my replacement I'm on the autotrain

An older photo of my MTH 0-4-0 out on the mainline.  Nice photos posted again this week--dynamite thread!

rpmcobra posted:

No switcher this week for me hope you guy's will except my replacement I'm on the autotrain

Been there, done that (six times and counting). enjoy.

Tom

Making my once in a while appearance on SS. I took this GE 44 Ton Switcher at Maricopa Live Steamers. 

thanks for starting us off Patrick. great stuff guys.

Hoping Santa brings me a layout to run her on, & not just around the tree! 

RPMCobra:  You may not have realized it, but the AutoTrain Station in Lorton is the former terminal of the Lorton & Occoquan RR and the RF&P.  The L&O was constructed to transport prisoners coming down from DC on the RF&P line to the DC Prison up the hill, and to carry the bricks they made at the brickworks on the Occoquan River down to the RF&P for shipment to Washington.  Last loco was a Whitcomb, I believe.

For several years, the AutoTrain was commuter rail for me.

RJR posted:

RPMCobra:  You may not have realized it, but the AutoTrain Station in Lorton is the former terminal of the Lorton & Occoquan RR and the RF&P.  The L&O was constructed to transport prisoners coming down from DC on the RF&P line to the DC Prison up the hill, and to carry the bricks they made at the brickworks on the Occoquan River down to the RF&P for shipment to Washington.  Last loco was a Whitcomb, I believe.

For several years, the AutoTrain was commuter rail for me.

Was the Lorton and Occoquan a narrow gauge line? I grew up nearby and had heard that there were narrow gauge boxcars used as storage into the 1980's by the prison there. 

Silver Lake posted:

 

<snip: some nice stuff including these pics...>

All: 

Good stuff this weekend!

Silver Lake's pics: Nice pics, especially enjoyed the O scale pics. Really like that FM switcher!  I really like heft and presence of O scale, but it's just too darn big to do what I want to do with a switching layout in the space I have to work with!

The L&O was standard gauge.  Google "lorton and occoquan railroad" and you'll come up with much info on it.  From the Occoquan River, one can still see one of the brick kilns that the Northern VA Park Authority has left standing.

RJR posted:

RPMCobra:  You may not have realized it, but the AutoTrain Station in Lorton is the former terminal of the Lorton & Occoquan RR and the RF&P.  The L&O was constructed to transport prisoners coming down from DC on the RF&P line to the DC Prison up the hill, and to carry the bricks they made at the brickworks on the Occoquan River down to the RF&P for shipment to Washington.  Last loco was a Whitcomb, I believe.

For several years, the AutoTrain was commuter rail for me.

Hey thanks I did not know that. I enjoy the auto train to or from Florida and the drive is starting to become a bit tedious.

Tom Densel posted:

Tom

Tom, who made the PC transfer caboose?

seems to be dismal heavy this week...so...

PRRronbh posted:

Tom Densel posted:

 

 

Tom

Tom, who made the PC transfer caboose?

Ron,

I scratchbuilt it.  I used a Lionel PS-1 boxcar chassis and running gear and built everything on top.  Here is a better shot.

Tom

Tom,

  Nice job on that! 

  Tom 

The Penn Central engines are really cool. I ran the ex-PRR 7000 many times! 

Tom

Tom Densel

Ron,

I scratchbuilt it.  I used a Lionel PS-1 boxcar chassis and running gear and built everything on top.  Here is a better shot.

Tom

Really neat work.  But disappointing to know that these are not available out there.

A day late, but here is my new (to me) Lionel 623.

very nice train Mark !!

Little late but I just got this ugly duckling...

Sheet metal/ brass construction, 2 rail scale (lol), Scalecraft trucks.. not sure what to do with it...

Thanks Patrick for pitching in this week, and thanks to all of you who jumped in this week, see you next Saturday!

p.s.  in honor of my trip to NY

https://digitalcollections.nyp...d9-e040-e00a18064a99

yankspride4 posted:

A day late, but here is my new (to me) Lionel 623.

never too late for switchers.

Great engine- I've had one for a couple of years.

My MTH Docksider project, little graphics change and added TMCC:

Originally posted by Dennis Holler:

Little late but I just got this ugly duckling...

Sheet metal/ brass construction, 2 rail scale (lol), Scalecraft trucks.. not sure what to do with it...

IT appears to me to be a Crude H-10/H12/44 Fm switcher.

rvhirailer posted:

My MTH Docksider project, little graphics change and added TMCC:

 

Hey @rvhirailer - I’m curious about how you added command control to this one, can you let us know what you did?  I have a similar one I’d consider modifying, but no idea where to start.  Thanks...Rich.

P.s. it looks great!

If I have posted these before, sorry.  But normally don't think of them as switchers although the RS stands for road switcher.

The Erie is special, sentimental to me.  You see the P&LE pulled the "Steel King" from Pittsburgh to my hometown.  There the Erie would normally take over to pull the train into Cleveland.  And I had rode that leg to see the Indians play as a lad.  The Erie pulled this leg with a RS2.

prrhorseshoecurve posted:

Originally posted by Dennis Holler:

Little late but I just got this ugly duckling...

Sheet metal/ brass construction, 2 rail scale (lol), Scalecraft trucks.. not sure what to do with it...

IT appears to me to be a Crude H-10/H12/44 Fm switcher.

 

I was thinking that as well.  We'll get a better look once it shows up.  it's pretty crude and I think a few changes would make it look a lot better, but who knows lol

Murnane posted:

rvhirailer posted:

My MTH Docksider project, little graphics change and added TMCC:

 

Hey @rvhirailer - I’m curious about how you added command control to this one, can you let us know what you did?  I have a similar one I’d consider modifying, but no idea where to start.  Thanks...Rich.

P.s. it looks great!

Thank you Rich!  I removed the MTH electronic board and replaced it with an Electric RR Co. Mini Commander 2 board.  It takes some squeezing but I got it in there!  I ran the antenna wire out of the fireman’s side window and that’s what you see connected to the bell outside the locomotive.  The company sells 3 versions of the board, I purchased the one that also controls electrocouplers.  I left those wires bundled inside until I purchase two coil couplers.  The only wiring is existing Red and Black to the board for power.  Existing Yellow and White from the MTH motor to the board for motor control, and the gray wire on the commander works the run/ program feature.  The kit comes with directions for wiring it to a Beep but it’s easy enough to figure out.  Make sure you insulate the board from the shell!

Mike