Switcher Saturday 11-6-21

Good evening switcher fans!  Thanks JHZ563 for  the early start!  Wow! Your Halloween layout looks great JHZ563!!  

This weekends switcher pics are a variety of switchers in their natural habitat doing what they do best.   I hope everyone has a terrific weekend!!

The boys on the service track give this little fella nothing but TLC.

MA & PA SW1 with milk train passes by the yard.

A WbB replica of a Lionel postwar 44 tonner.  Looks more like  a 90 tonner to me.  or

Hubert and Norris pass the time away telling old railroad stories as they wait orders for their Plymouth's next move.

Docksider on the El.

The power and majesty of the BL2.  Here WM number 81 sits on a siding waiting for a passenger train to speed by.  After the passenger train passes the BL2 will back out onto the main and keep heading west as a lite engine move.  

Thanks Pat!  Temporary layouts that run mostly in the dark are quick and fairly easy to do!  Since this was year 4, I had already collected and tested most of the items. The big thing this year was the lava lamp space ship.  It has internal lights but I forgot to turn them on last night.   

Your work is amazing. You even manage to make a BL-2 look regal!

Happy SWSat!

Still waiting for parts to complete my BEEP/ERR upgrade. Here's some pix from the past.

My fleet of K-line S2's with cabooses. What would a switch crew do without a shoving platform?

Have a great Weekend!

Bob

Hey Everyone, hope all is well, John thanks for your continued SWSAT efforts...Rich

Good morning, SwSat Nation!  Last Sunday I took my grandson, Isaac, to the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, ME for “Trolleyween”.  There was a nice collection of trolleys, as expected, but I didn’t expect to see a critter in the livery of a road close to my MA home, the Providence and Worcester.

I’m attaching - in addition to a photo of the P&W loco - a photo of another critter parked next to it.  I didn’t see a builder’s plate on either engine, but maybe one of you fans can ID them.  And last, how could I go to a trolley museum and fail to include a photo of the trolley we rode on?

John

Happy Switcher Sat everyone! Great stuff so far.  Here is my box cab  coming into the yard for a rest while the 44 tonner heads out to take over switching duties for the rest of the day -

Good Morning fellow SWSAT fans!

This morning I have  Penn Central GP9 7180 (Atlas O) peeking out of an industrial siding as it goes about its daily duties:

Tom

@Steam Crazy posted:

Good morning, SwSat Nation!  Last Sunday I took my grandson, Isaac, to the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, ME for “Trolleyween”.  There was a nice collection of trolleys, as expected, but I didn’t expect to see a critter in the livery of a road close to my MA home, the Providence and Worcester.

Hey there Steam Crazy!  I don't know about the smaller engine, although it does remind of one I saw at the Rr museum of PA in Strasburg.   This one is absolutely a GE 25 tonner.  Elliott Company had one. They're a hoot, single traction motor with chain drive to the axles, and an air whistle 😃!  The cab is huge compared to the rest of it.

Wow switcher fans, what a great Saturday we have going.  I just have to say jhz563 that your Halloween layout including the lava lamp space ship is just great.  I really don't know how you find the time with your young family and work to do such an elaborate layout.  BZ!!! as we used to say in the service!.

Today, I have something that just arrived on the Lenardtown and Savannah property.  Its an Alco S3 switcher that management picked up 2nd hand from "the Rock".  We are just trying it out on our home rails to get crew familiarity but it seems to do a great job.   (Note:  In reality its a Marx 1998, Rock Island S3 from 1962).  So here he is showing off for his new owners.

Have a great weekend everyone

Don

JHZ, thanks for the ID and the details on the P&W critter.  Now that you told me it’s a GE, I can see the front end resembles a 44 tonner.   Maybe the museum will get it operating some day?

John

@Steam Crazy posted:

Good morning, SwSat Nation!  Last Sunday I took my grandson, Isaac, to the Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, ME for “Trolleyween”.  There was a nice collection of trolleys, as expected, but I didn’t expect to see a critter in the livery of a road close to my MA home, the Providence and Worcester.

I’m attaching - in addition to a photo of the P&W loco - a photo of another critter parked next to it.  I didn’t see a builder’s plate on either engine, but maybe one of you fans can ID them.  And last, how could I go to a trolley museum and fail to include a photo of the trolley we rode on?

John

Hi all. This 20 tonner used to be part of the Providence and Worcester fan club collection and used to be kept in Worcester Mass.  After P&W was absorbed by G&W the group seems to have broken up the unit disappeared. I’m glad to hear it is still in preservation.  

I will always be a fan of P&W I used to live in Providence during college and had a long walk to school though a very industrial area. P&W switched the Providence Journal paper printer along there. A few times the switching blocked the road and made me a bit late. Sadly these were the days before cellphones so I have no pictures but do have fond memories.