Switcher Saturday 1-30-21

K-line Pennsy A-5.  It is a great runner and can emit perfect smoke rings!  
Happy SWSAT

Yay SWSat is on!

I am eagerly following the Jinty saga as a person who models some British RRs.

I saw this one on here last week and broke my personal promise of no more new 3 rail. I got it from Tom’s Trains in Ardsley NY. He said he ordered 12 and a week later after selling this to me he is down to his last 2. Lionel is sold out.

I still have to set up some three rail to test it out some.

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

Good morning fellow SWSAT'ers,

Penn Central U23B 2723 (Atlas O) is in charge of the local this morning.  I caught the train slowly passing through the countryside recently.

Tom

Working on an HO switching layout and here are the engines.  They follow in their big brother’s O Gauge footsteps.

                                                         MTA... LIRR #1,923

Happy Switcher Saturday.

Last night I picked up a brand new early version LionChief A5 (no Bluetooth) after I unboxed it at my friends house a few of us were discussing how much do we all thought it could pull ?

There was a train on the track with two MTH dummy diesels and a “short” tank train ....so I figured what the heck !

Happy SWSAT everyone! Buzz has the day off. I caught this guy switching grain cars in Madison Illinois last week. Enjoy your weekend.

Happy SWSat!

Bob

TALES OF THE DOCKSIDER

Your Yardmaster is very happy to report there were no mishaps in the Worcester yards today!  He is tired of writing reports on auto collisions and derailments!

NYC shop switcher X-8688 is taking a break between assignments, so today we turn our camera on B&M GP7 no. 1555 hauling a coal train.  The train is making it’s way through Worcester on it’s way to the power plant in Bow, NH.

I’m sure I’m not the only SWSAT fan missing the great train show in Springfield, MA this weekend.  I’m suffering from “train show withdrawal” and I need a fix ASAP!

John

MTH NEW HAVEN 44 Tonners  making a delivery at a mock-up of the NEW ENGLAND BEVERAGE CO. on my experimental version of John Pryke’s UNION FREIGHT switching layout.

Good afternoon fellow switcher fans!  I am really digging everyone's photos and videos!  This week on the Free State Junction Railway the company photographer has been busy snapping pics of switchers doing their thing around Butler Junction.   Have a wonderful weekend everyone!  Be safe = Be well!

A new 57 Corvette, the trunk/spare tire of a 55 Ford Crown Victoria is seen in passing, as children play and a B&O Docksider makes its' way.

Ma & Pa SW 1

A THANK YOU TRIBUTE to MTH for producing all the railroad liveries which make up the short line portion of the FSJR.   Canton Railroad, Patapsco and Back Rivers Railroad, Baltimore and Annapolis RR., and the MA & PA.  

Patrick, enjoyed the photos of your great layout, as usual!  Question: is the 57 T Bird actually a 55 Crown Victoria?  Looks like the Crown Vic I have.

John

Hi SWSat Fans...my input today will be short and brief, I am traveling and thus limited by how to respond.  Next week we are home in Texas and I should be able to do better.

Here the Lionel 2328 Burlington GP-7 waits with the noon passenger train to Atlanta while the Lionel, Trolley takes the main to handle mid day local commuter traffic to the Port of Savannah.

Here a Marx pre-war Commodore Vanderbilt  loco and its 8-wheel type 51 tender pulls a consist of early short wheelbase Bogota type coaches.  All dating from about 1935-36.

Here is a departing view of the train showing more of the coaches.

Happy SWSat to all

Don

@Fendermain posted:

K-line Pennsy A-5.  It is a great runner and can emit perfect smoke rings!  
Happy SWSAT

Fendermain, it's always a pleasure for me to see your trains and layout.

Among other things, you and I have a little red bridge in common:

Arnold

Magnificent photos, Patrick, as usual, especially the one of the Ma & Pa diesel using the camera angle with the camera pointed up at the engine, making it look enormous and all powerful.

My switcher contribution today is my brand new LC+2.0 BEDT. Here it is in action:

Arnold

Don McErlean, if you can do better than your latest post, I can't wait to see it!  Arnold, is there anything better than getting a new engine?  OK, you don't have to answer that question!

John

That BEDT 0-6-0 seems to be a big hit. I guess I need to find one before they're all gone.

@Steam Crazy posted:

Don McErlean, if you can do better than your latest post, I can't wait to see it!  Arnold, is there anything better than getting a new engine?  OK, you don't have to answer that question!

John

John, it's definitely one of the best things.

Lots of great switching action out there today and some of the best scenery and weathering on the forum.  And that little docksider is showing up everywhere and has drawn Andy back toward the light side of "O".

@Steam Crazy posted:

Patrick, enjoyed the photos of your great layout, as usual!  Question: is the 57 T Bird actually a 55 Crown Victoria?  Looks like the Crown Vic I have.

John

John -you have a great eye my friend!   My 57 T Bird is now in the location of the 55 Crown V on my layout.  The photo I used today was taken a year a year ago and before I moved the 55 CV  to another location on the layout.  The trunk in todays' photo is in fact a 55 Crown Victoria.... you are correct!  Since the TB has a spare tire attached to its trunk my brain just went with the TB ... LOL!  Thanks for spotting that error  Now I will make the edit to my post.

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Magnificent photos, Patrick, as usual, especially the one of the Ma & Pa diesel using the camera angle with the camera pointed up at the engine, making it look enormous and all powerful.

My switcher contribution today is my brand new LC+2.0 BEDT. Here it is in action:

Arnold

Thank you very much Arnold!  Yes it was fun to create a powerful image for the Ma & Pa SW1 which had only 600 hp.  Btw - my first cab ride, at 3 years old,  was in the B&O version of the same locomotive.

Your new locomotive is AWESOME!!  Love the whistle and bright headlight!  The entire locomotive looks great!  Now you have me thinking that I just may need one too!

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Fendermain, it's always a pleasure for me to see your trains and layout.

Among other things, you and I have a little red bridge in common:

Arnold

Arnold,

Thank you.  I really like those bridges and both of mine were purchased during my only trip to York.  Your erector set bridge looks great along side your red one.

John

@Fendermain posted:

Arnold,

Thank you.  I really like those bridges and both of mine were purchased during my only trip to York.  Your erector set bridge looks great along side your red one.

John

John, that Erector Set bridge was a gift to me from our Forum friend, Leroof. He built it and gave it to me a couple of years ago when he and his wife stayed overnight at my home. The next day Leroof and I attended the Westchester Toy and Train Show. Arnold

Arnold, I like the backdrop you have installed beneath and behind the red bridge and the erector bridge!  It’s perfect for the scene! Great application!

John...thank you for the compliment.  I do enjoy trying to make those old toys look like their in the real world.

Great photo's everyone  BTW...I just got delivery on my new Lionel tank switcher...this week it will hit the rails on the Leonardtown and Savannah...hope it works as well as Arnold's.

Don

@Leroof posted:

Arnold, I like the backdrop you have installed beneath and behind the red bridge and the erector bridge!  It’s perfect for the scene! Great application!

Thanks Leroof. I bought it about a year ago from Railroadbackdrops.com, which is one of our OGR Forum sponsors.

@Don McErlean posted:

John...thank you for the compliment.  I do enjoy trying to make those old toys look like their in the real world.

Great photo's everyone  BTW...I just got delivery on my new Lionel tank switcher...this week it will hit the rails on the Leonardtown and Savannah...hope it works as well as Arnold's.

Don

I predict it will, Don.