Full size Switcher and old flatcars for sale via Auction - open house today, auction Friday and Sat

Darn.  The stuff looks to be two rail.  If it was three rail, I might have been interested.  

More photos available if needed.  I believe the auctions company is Geyer Auctions, out of Gilbertsville PA

Any idea on the heritage of the flat cars? I hope the older car with arch bar trucks finds a good home.

I try not to pay more than $100.00 plus shipping for any "used" engines.  I then install Electric Railroad's DC commander.

Does ERR make a 600 volt 900 amp DC commander?     

Plus my wife said "NO Way"

CBS072 posted:

 

Plus my wife said "NO Way"

Think of this as an opportunity to ask forgiveness instead of permission

SGP posted:

Any idea on the heritage of the flat cars? I hope the older car with arch bar trucks finds a good home.

Not really.  The full size ones with the bread boxes I think came to the plant in a trade for scrap steel decades ago.  They really only get used for mobile storage during turbine outage work.  Any more the blasting companies come with their own tents that are designed to help them collect the blasting media.  

The arch bar truck one is kinda interesting.  The wheel sets are mismatched.  One pair of axles has the wheel castings with the spiral patterns on the back, the other does not.  The dates on the wheels are super old, single digits thru the 20's.  I have no idea were it came from. 

I expect that all the flatcars will be purchased for scrap.  IF somebody needs a big yard decoration or a light weight bridge for their property, here's your chance!

jhz563 posted:

My employer, Talen Energy, is auctioning off one locomotive and some old flat cars as part of general clean up around the plant.  The loco documentation is a mix of sw-9 and sw-1200.  The engine turns over freely but will not start as the generator needs work.  Loco is equipped for Cat-tron remote operation.  Engine repair tag from 1999 indicates it is equipped with a 12-645 engine. 

 

 

Please note that the prime mover (engine) is actually an "old" 12-567C that has been up-graded with 645 power assemblies. Thus the designation "12-645CE", i.e. the crankcase is still an "original" 567C crankcase.

Another thought, although the trucks are equipped with roller bearings, those old switchers did NOT have alignment controlled draft gear/couplers, thus big railroads will generally not move such a unit in-train. Any potential buyer will probably have to truck it to its new home. 

HW- thank you for the clarification on the engine block. I didn't have an explanation for why the original manuals were referring to a 567 block and yet the tag marked it as a 645.  I didn't realize that was a possibility.

645 posted:

Hot Water posted:

 

Another thought, although the trucks are equipped with roller bearings, those old switchers did NOT have alignment controlled draft gear/couplers, thus big railroads will generally not move such a unit in-train. Any potential buyer will probably have to truck it to its new home. 

Understand your point about the lack of alignment control couplers. However this switcher still can be transported via rail if loaded onto a suitable flatcar. That's how the illinois Railway Museum moved a 1930-built Westinghouse diesel from Minneapolis, MN to Union, IL last summer - see picture below of same at arrival at UP/IRM interchange. Still need cranes and blocking ( <<< usually where most of the transport money goes) but depending upon arrangements / distance of movement rail may be cost competitive with a truck move.

That is an acceptable way for IRM to have many of their rail equipment moved into their large museum, especially since they have a good rail connection as well as their own trains to lift the item off the flat car. For the purchase of the switcher being discussed above, it will be potentially much cheaper to move the locomotive by highway truck, since the cost of cranes will be required to both load AND unload the locomotive, not to mention the charges involved with the railroad/railroads involved in moving the flat car (assuming the potential buyer does have a good rail connection).

Even IRM has to contract out the cranes:

Rusty

Today is the open house for the equipment shown in the original post.  Open house from 10-4.

Auction for multiple Talen Energy (formerly PPL) assets is Friday and Saturday.  Note that auction is at a different location.

Auction details can be found at this link.

Lots of various tools, mobile crane, D-10 dozer with coal blade, welding equipment, office desks and equipment, saws, pipe fittings, grills, aluminum picnic tables, swagelock pipe fittings, misc machinery parts, beat up old pickup trucks, rod ovens, grinders, electric testing meters, a flat bottom boat with like-new trailer, etc.

Impress your friends and loved ones - park a flatcar in your yard!

Build your own railway and never worry about rivet counting again, it's all prototypical when it's 12" to the foot!  

You know you want your own locomotive ( all the cool kids are getting one!)

"Any potential buyer will probably have to truck it to its new home. . . . . Hot Water

I was in until I had to get out.

Would your Homeowner's Assn. approve ??   Your township zoning officer ?  The local environmental group ??

jim pastorius posted:

Would your Homeowner's Assn. approve ??   Your township zoning officer ?  The local environmental group ??

I don't have an HOA.  Mrs. JHZ however said I could have all the trains we could afford as long as they still fit in the basement

Zoning ??  How much space ??   You need a larger basement !!

The D10 dozen would make a great Christmas present for my son, but I'm not sure my neighbors would approve