Switcher Saturday 01-16-21!

"Sewing machine" is the sound package for model railroad engines of the 20th century.

Happy Birthday Stephen!

Happy Birthday Stephen! and Happy SWSAT everyone. Today Buzz is pulling a mixed manifest of 2 rare Kuson tank cars and 2 Weaver cars.  Enjoy your weekend.

Happy SwSat everyone.  Early freight movement this morning.

Yay SWSat is on track!

First and most importantly I wish a Happy Birthday to Switchmaster Stephen!

This is one of my C16s. I will always be a fan of these little guys as well as the C16A modified engines with more conventional wedge shaped switching tenders. It is hard to believe that there were only 4 actually ever made. I think it probably wins the prize of the most models made of all engines.

Here is a NYC S motor that was pressed into service switching some Milk Cars on the far Upper Westside Milk Yard tracks.

Have a great weekend weekend guys I can’t wait to see what you guys post.

Happy Switcher Saturday and also Happy Birthday Stephen.

Happy SWSat!

Happy Birthday Stephen!

Sweet ROW C-16 Mr. Z

MTH made a version of the C-16 too, nowhere near the detail but still nice little switchers. The 4 prototypes were built by Baldwin for the B&O and ran the streets of Baltimore and Philadelphia. As Andy said, two were converted from tanks and tenders were added. (wiki)

Have a great weekend everyone!

Bob

TALES OF THE DOCKSIDER

Oh no!   Another Saturday, another mishap in the Worcester yard.  The yardmaster’s stellar safety record is in jeopardy!

Today NYC RS1 8106 has derailed.  The cause of the derailment is uncertain at this time, although a loose rail joint is suspected.  This was, fortunately, a low speed incident, so there were no injuries.

NYC shop switcher X-8688 was dispatched to tow the “big hook” to the scene.  This will be light work for the hook, so the RS-1 should be re-railed shortly.

jhz, love your 0-4-0 and happy birthday Stephen!

John

I hope all here have a safe and HAPPY SWSAT! and I trust that Stephen is having a HAPPY SEVENTH BIRTHDAY!

I'm putting this pic up again because it illustrates so perfectly the life&times of the EMD end-cab switcher:

A pair of Shawmut SW9s just finishing dragging a cut of hoppers under a conveyor belt in a continuous-loading operation. The Shawmut had a small fleet of SW9s, nine in total.

From many years before, caught running-around an excursion train:

Seen here earlier that day on the bridge over the Allegheny River:

First generation EMD end-cab switchers are memorialized in the ubiquitous Lionel "NW2" (a near-scale stylized amalgamation of various EMD characteristics, even including Blomberg trucks as seen on the prototype MP15):

The Shawmut SW9s were built in 1953 with 1200HP V12 567BC engines. The culmination of the EMD end-cab switcher line came as the 1500HP V12 645 engined SW1500, later modified with Blomberg trucks as the MP15DC and finally, (after replacing the DC main generator with an AC alternator) the MP15AC.

Motive power on the PER is one such, an SW1500 in the original iteration with Flexicoil trucks:

Quite at home pulling the Scrapyard siding:

It is common for this burly workhorse to handle 12 car cuts when working either the East End or West End industrial areas:

All of us here are delighted to see Lee Drennen on the mend and Posting here again.

Have already posted this in some other threads but what the heck. This is Switcher Saturday!

My new Lion Chief + 2.0 0-6-0T switcher. I picked up the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal version. Really like the color contrast with the black loco and red, white and yellow trim. Runs great, good improved sounds with 2.0 and smokes well.

Need to choose some appropriate rolling stock.

I may have posted this before, but I thought it might be worth looking at again.

AC&Y H16-44 #202 (Lionel) goes about its daily chores.  Here the crew is spotting a boxcar at a warehouse:

Glad to have you back on board, Lee.

Tom

Pittsburg and Shawmut models from Atlas.   As painted from EMD, 1953.  (There were (9) units) delivered 1953 though 1954.

Later the paint scheme  was changed.

Reading and northern dropped of a box car for pocono to take to one of their customers on the short line.......

Happy 7th Birthday to Stephen.  Mine was on the 14th.  Curiously there was a "0" after the 7 on my birthday. 

Lou N

Nearing Sweetwater Springs tank brings into focus a lack of a tank spout--gads but I’m lazy. Shoot, all I have to do is drill one hole. Have a good and safe weekend. Happy 7th Birthday, Stephen.

Happy SWSAT to you all.

Happy birthday Stephen

Here's a picture of 6 out of 9 switchers posing for a group photo.  The other 3 were too shy to come out of their boxes.

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Good afternoon fellow switcher fans!  I'm really enjoying all of your photos, videos, and info everyone.  JHZ 563 thanks for notching out the throttle and getting us rolling today.  I love your new ROW docksider!  It looks terrific! Happy 7th birthday to Stephen too!!

Today on the Free State Junction Railway, the company photographer has been busy traveling around the system and snapping photos of switchers in action.  The first photo was snapped in the early morning hours from atop the FSJR general offices.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone!  Be safe = Be well!!

Snapped from the overhead walkway, the Ma & Pa SW 1 moves up the main.

From the company helicopter, this shot was taken of a derailment on the main.  Luckily no damage was done to the GP 9.  The GP9 and its train was re-routed through Butler Junction.

The re-routed GP 9 and its train coming through Butler Junction.

B&O SW9 pulls a coal drag.

Up on the Mountain Division a B&O Plymouth switcher serves the logging camp as a B&O docksider is on the main.

Happy SWSAT & Birthday to Stephen - all is "ok" here at the RiCHY RR, I hope your crews are all OK too.

C&O #75 0-8-0 Yard Goat doing laps this morning.

Seems like the focus this week is docksiders (which is fine with me!). Great photos and commentary, guys.

Keep up the good work!  

Happy birthday, Stephen! Thanks for your service to our hobby!

@johnstrains posted:

My new Lion Chief + 2.0 0-6-0T switcher. I picked up the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal version.

Need to choose some appropriate rolling stock.

Suggestion for rolling stock behind BEDT 0-6-0T industrial switcher.

I run my Reading 0-6-0T scale switcher (same diecast model shell as the new LC+ 2.0 version) ahead of an MTH 40-foot Schaefer Beer refrigerator car and an MTH Reading Bobber caboose. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Railroad #15 0-6-0T operated on a waterfront yard and pulled 40-foot boxcars arriving on barges to nearby customers. I have a picture of BEDT #14 that shows it pulling four 40-foot boxcars with no caboose. The Schaefer Brewing Company plant on Kent Avenue in Brooklyn was adjacent to parts of the Terminal Railroad. I can't attest to the fact that the BEDT actually pulled Schaefer Beer cars but the two businesses were in the same neighborhood - if not next door. I shall run Schaefer Beer when I unpack my BEDT #15 steamer.

MELGAR

Happy Birthday Stephen! Enjoy your special day! Always great railroading there good buddy!

And another awesome switcher Saturday! Thx to all.

Wow fellows, Switcher Saturday sure rolls around so fast, time flies when ones retired, and I must say, there’s some really nice Switchers and other trains in this thread. Cool layouts, nice videos, thank you all. Tom Densel, Cool switching maneuvering with the nice FM diesel, nice layout, nice fencing and beautiful backdrop, Wow, Third Rail, what a nice lineup of diesels, TaycoTrains, great video and nice coal train, great scenery detailing and weathering of your coal cars, nice, Murnane, what a cool video with music, nice layout and great trackwork, Cool, Trumptrain, your scenes are always fun to review, action packed and very colorful,    Geysergazer Lew, scenes by your upstairs window are always fun to see, nice layout. Also your photography of real trains adds lots of interest to all your posts. Happy Railroading Everyone, Oh, where’s Don McErlean today, he’s always got a cool Marx train for review.

Thanks Lew and everyone else who has me in there thoughts. SWSAT is one of my favorites and thanks John for lining it up again. Everyone be safe next week.

Hello everyone...and a very Happy Birthday to Stephen!!  JHZ thanks for getting us rolling today and great new loco, super detail.  Well leapinlarry - not to disappoint, so here is my input for today.  Its a GE 70 ton, by Marx along with her matching caboose.  Its the one with the maroon and yellow livery that was issued in 1958 only so she is 63 years young!  Still runs great by the way, as I love to make them "go round"...She has a full automatic remote reverse but no light (daytime operations only - )  So here she is...

Folks thanks for the great pictures and video's I really love watching and looking at all the great engines and layouts .  Some day I will manage to figure out how to do videos and show you all some of my old Marx fleet in action.  Happy Saturday to all

Don

@MELGAR posted:

Suggestion for rolling stock behind BEDT 0-6-0T industrial switcher.

I run my Reading 0-6-0T scale switcher (same diecast model shell as the new LC+ 2.0 version) ahead of an MTH 40-foot Schaefer Beer refrigerator car and an MTH Reading Bobber caboose. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Railroad #15 0-6-0T operated on a waterfront yard and pulled 40-foot boxcars arriving on barges to nearby customers. I have a picture of BEDT #14 that shows it pulling four 40-foot boxcars with no caboose. The Schaefer Brewing Company plant on Kent Avenue in Brooklyn was adjacent to parts of the Terminal Railroad. I can't attest to the fact that the BEDT actually pulled Schaefer Beer cars but the two businesses were in the same neighborhood - if not next door. I shall run Schaefer Beer when I unpack my BEDT #15 steamer.

MELGAR

Thanks, MELGAR.

It appears that there are many good choices for candidates behind the 0-6-0s. I've seen some of the photos posted in other threads showing prototypical operations for these little guys. I don't have switching operations, per se, on my PW style layout but that's not a problem. I've always run what I like. And those beer reefers would look great!

Thanks again for the suggestions.

Happy Birthday Lou.

@Don McErlean posted:

Hello everyone...and a very Happy Birthday to Stephen!!  JHZ thanks for getting us rolling today and great new loco, super detail.  Well leapinlarry - not to disappoint, so here is my input for today.  Its a GE 70 ton, by Marx along with her matching caboose.  Its the one with the maroon and yellow livery that was issued in 1958 only so she is 63 years young!  Still runs great by the way, as I love to make them "go round"...She has a full automatic remote reverse but no light (daytime operations only - )  So here she is...

Folks thanks for the great pictures and video's I really love watching and looking at all the great engines and layouts .  Some day I will manage to figure out how to do videos and show you all some of my old Marx fleet in action.  Happy Saturday to all

Don

Don it’s about time you showed up lol. I enjoy looking at all the vintage you have to offer as well take care and be safe.

Push into the stamping plant.

@Lou N posted:

Happy 7th Birthday to Stephen.  Mine was on the 14th.  Curiously there was a "0" after the 7 on my birthday. 

Lou N

Happy birthday Lou! Yes- those zeros do suck!

Don McErlan and all...

Gotta admire those old Marx switchers...I know I do...I have just one Marx...(and a Lionel 41)...nothing fancy...but they just keep running...i must say I look forward to this topic EVERY Saturday...(along with a few others)...wish i had something meaningful to contribute...

Howard...

PS...I drool over ALL the switchers...scale, semi-scale, toy, any age, any gauge or road name...it doesn't matter...

Hey everybody,  an amazing thread as usual!  Stephen really enjoyed me reading him all the Birthday wishes. @Lou N, happy birthday to you too!  Stephen's Birthday was actually the 14th as well.

A special congratulations to @MELGAR for being featured in the latest OGR magazine!!

I am loving all the docksider today, and getting some ideas as well.

Have a great evening everyone,  remember the thread is open all week so feel free to add more if you feel like it👍😎

Lou N - Wishing you a b- lated very happy healthy birthday!!!  As my yoga teacher once told me "age is just a number."     May you live happily and healthy to experience at least 2 zeros behind the first number ... and even then it will still be just a number.  Just sayin.  Hope you enjoyed your special day!

@sawdust43 posted:

Don McErlan and all...

Gotta admire those old Marx switchers...I know I do...I have just one Marx...(and a Lionel 41)...nothing fancy...but they just keep running...i must say I look forward to this topic EVERY Saturday...(along with a few others)...wish i had something meaningful to contribute...

Howard...

PS...I drool over ALL the switchers...scale, semi-scale, toy, any age, any gauge or road name...it doesn't matter...

What's wrong with posting a lionel 41 or a Marx unit? I like my little 41, but they are a bit noisy.

@Lou N posted:

Happy 7th Birthday to Stephen.  Mine was on the 14th.  Curiously there was a "0" after the 7 on my birthday. 

Lou N

Happy Birthday Lou.

sawdust 43, EVERYONE has something meaningful to contribute!  Let's see your switchers.  We would like to see them!

John

Good morning everyone. Sure was some great photos of your switchers and wonderful stories to go with them all. I wish I would have been able to join you all yesterday, but as usual life has got in the way! But I do want to take the time to say happy Birthday to Stephen and Lou N. Sorry its a day late!

I sure didn't mean to hijack Switcher Saturday to receive birthday greetings but I want to thank all of you for your kind wishes. 

Lou N

@Lou N posted:

I sure didn't mean to hijack Switcher Saturday to receive birthday greetings but I want to thank all of you for your kind wishes.

Lou N

I don’t think anyone took it that way Lou. Birthdays only come around once a year we all enjoy your contribution on the forum at least I do.