Switcher Saturday 10-30-21🎃🎃🎃

Good morning fellow switcher fans!  JHZ563 thanks for getting us rolling .... Martians, pumpkins, and switchers ... got to luv em!!  The Martian's shadow under the flying saucer really looks cool. Looks great!  Wishing everyone a very safe and happy Halloween.  I look forward to seeing everyones posts

Today I have a potpourri of switcher photos.  

Here is a Washington Terminal RS1 going into the hole to make way for the Cavalier pulled by a J Class locomotive.  A B&O SW9 is on the adjacent track.

A Pennsy A5 makes its way through the fall foliage.

Two B&O critters ... a Plymouth switcher and a Docksider.

A Kennecott Copper end cab switcher

A Canton Railroad SW1500 and caboose.  

Canton Railroad switcher pokes out of Westend Tunnel.

Boston & Maine EMD GP7 #1562 is a Sunset/3^rd Rail model.  ALCO S3 #1274 is an MTH Premier model with PS3. Both locomotives were delivered to the B&M in 1950. GP7 #1562 had 1500 horsepower - S3 #1174 had 660. #1174 was damaged in a roundhouse fire in Springfield, Massachusetts, repaired by ALCO, and returned to the railroad in 1957 as S4 #1274 with 1000 horsepower. Shown on my 12’-by-8’ model railroad. The building at the right in the first photo is scratch-built from styrene. The others are from laser-cut wood kits, which I prefer.

MELGAR

A little Postwar action this morning. Enjoy your Saturday and your trains.

Yay Spooky SWSat is on the rails and this weeks post is full of Ghost Trains!

Thanks for getting things rolling every week @jhz563. Earth has to try to save those cows. Love those wonderful switchers Mel and Patrick.

This weekend I am posting what I consider the first Lionel Halloween set. I had considered it a grail find ever since I saw it as a kid at the Landmark Mall Sears in 1982.

This is the Black Cave Flyer Set and as you can see the main appeal was the Cardboard backdrop and vinyl floor mat with swamps and lava (sadly missing on my copy) The set is led by a plastic bodied 0-4-0 with glow-in-the-dark plastic parts and all the cars were undecorated. The train is not that great but I love this set so much.

There was a sticker sheet with glow in the dark stickers to finish the cars and backdrop.

The set was Lionels attempt to cash in on the Dungeons and Dragon’s craze of the early 1980’s. Some of my childhood toys that fit the theme are in the pictures as well thanks to my daughter who helped me with setting this up.

There were a few other switcher based sets with cardboard and vinyl parts like the L.A.S.E.R. Sci fi set or the Army set but none were as elaborate as the Black Cave Flyer. Lionel did not make a specifically Halloween set until the early 2000’s. There was a separate sale Transylvania General 4-4-0 and later a Docksider 0-6-0T before eventually a standard starter set 4-4-2 led set.

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

Also be sure to answer that knock on the door in the dark hours of the night tomorrow. Be sure to offer something to satiate those goulies and goblins or they will I’m sure play some nasty tricks on you…..

also the dentist is waiting for you next week. Bwah Ha Ha Ha!!!!

Happy Halloween 🎃 👺👻

Lionel 060t Track cleaning train

Canton Railroad switcher in action with signal man boxcar.

Happy SWSat!

No Halloween trains on the RSJ&B so this week we find Santa Fe 2003 (RMT BEEP), doing one last pick up before it heads to the shops. The yard master has ordered a ERR mini-commander with sound upgrade for the prime movers. The switcher will be assigned to remote control duty in the yards after it comes out of the shop.

This will be the shop foreman's first attempt at installing ERR controls so we will see how it goes.

The crew on 200 are ready to take the cars out of town as soon as 2003 moves off the main.

I squeezed in a late season round of golf this week (In NY this is late), and saw this on the course. The only thing missing were the ghosts and goblins .

Happy Halloween!

Bob

Great photos everyone on another fine switcher Saturday. I don’t have any Halloween switchers, so here’s the next best thing - Plymouth subway track cleaning work train action in almost Orange but really dirty yellow color  -

Speaking of track cleaning cars.....Mine is finally done and was doing it's thing last week (pulled by a switcher of course).

Rusty

@RSJB18 posted:

Speaking of track cleaning cars.....Mine is finally done and was doing it's thing last week (pulled by a switcher of course).

That looks fantastic, Bob! It really came out great.  I’m thinking about buying another one to double up and may attempt a similar build after seeing how nice yours came out.

The only thing spooky about this photo is the fact that the locomotive is lettered for Penn Central:

Tom

TALES OF THE DOCKSIDER

Greetings, SwSat folks, from Wells, ME.  Your Yardmaster is vacationing today, so a trip to the archives for an oldie but goodie is in order.  NYC shop switcher X-8688 is shoving B&A 4-6-6T no. 403 into the shop.

And not switcher related, but I can’t resist posting, is an image taken from the deck of the condo we’re renting.

Steam Crazy, enjoy the vacay.  Wells is beautiful.  We've got friends that retired there to escape the crowds of Long Island.  Alas after several years there they are moving to Massachusetts just outside of Boston to be cloaser to one of their daughters.

Melgar! Beautiful B&M movies. Thanks so much. Really beautiful locos on your prize layout.

Bob! The LIRR track cleaning now in service. Looks fantastic!

Steam Crazy, Wells on the water. Sure is nice. I ‘ll be over later! Lol.                             But Stay outta that water. Great White sharks recently spotted.

Leroof, come on over!  The beer is cold!

John

Happy Switcher Saturday!

Steam crazy! Lol. I think my place of work would be quite unhappy with my out of town adventure. I have to be back at work at 0630 tomorrow.
it might take me 3 hours to get there too!  
enjoy you vacation. Maybe next time. Wells is super nice.

Running late today.  Here are some photos from last year of my K-Line A5 moving some Atlas coal cars around.

My Long Island S-2 in the original color from Alco before it's orange and black paint job.

Andy

Beautiful pictures and videos everyone, and Happy Halloween to you All.

“Image not found”, Larry.

John

@Steamfan77 posted:

My Long Island S-2 in the original color from Alco before it's orange and black paint job.

Andy

Very nice Andy. I'm slightly partial to LIRR equipment. Who made the loco?

Bob

Can I join a day late and say Happy Switcher Saturday and Happy Halloween at the same time?

It’s never too late!

John

@D44 posted:

Can I join a day late and say Happy Switcher Saturday and Happy Halloween at the same time?

R U kidding me?, it's never too late. I love the creative pumpkin carvings.

I wasn't using Switchers,  but check out my postings on the Halloween thread.

A MTH GE 44 Tonner lettered for the Hoboken Shore Railroad. HSR served businesses in and around the city of Hoboken and it’s once numerous piers and docks…

Kind of unusual Atlas release, a SW9 in NJ DOT colors. Originally built for the Erie and passing through a few other owners before being retired by NJT…

Finally, a MTH Erie-Alco-Ingersoll Rand-General Electric boxcab diesel. Two of these 60 ton switchers served the Erie trackage in the Bronx…

Tom

@jhz563 posted:

R U kidding me?, it's never too late. I love the creative pumpkin carvings.

I wasn't using Switchers,  but check out my postings on the Halloween thread.

Thanks - but for the record the pumpkins are pre-purchased and the lights are on the fritz. I wish it was something we carved -

Tom, I lived on Hudson Street at 11th, and the Hoboken Shore Railroad went right in front of my house. There was a car float on the river there, and a small yard. Lots of memories of those small diesels.

Artie