@Steam Crazy posted:Arnold, your backdrop looks good and I like your video. I'm curious about the Providence, New England and Bethlehem RR because I never heard of it nor could I find anything in a search. Can you tell me something about it? Thanks.
John
PS My guess is your switcher is an EMD SW1.
My mistake, John, it says on the locomotive: Philadelphia Bethlehem & New England. Arnold
Happy new year everyone!!! Here is my brand new and modified MTH Railking NWS Earle SW1200 switcher pulling ammunition from the Leonardo pier. Note the police cars barricading the crossing like they sometimes do in real life.
@Mark V. Spadaro posted:Really like the over/under loop, Ray
Thank you Mark,
Its a modified form from Lionel's D264 plan using GarGraves sectional track.
Ray
@mpeck161 posted:Happy new year everyone!!! Here is my brand new and modified MTH Railking NWS Earle SW1200 switcher pulling ammunition from the Leonardo pier. Note the police cars barricading the crossing like they sometimes do in real life.
So I guessing New and modified means that you modified a new engine with NWS Earle logos? The boxcars are hard to see. Are they also modified as NWS Earle?
@pennsyfan posted:So I guessing New and modified means that you modified a new engine with NWS Earle logos? The boxcars are hard to see. Are they also modified as NWS Earle?
The engine is weathered and has the full United States Navy text removed since none of those locomotives in real life have it. Sorry the boxcars are hard to read when weathered and in perhaps a dark light but the cars and caboose read USN with an NWS logo on the caboose.
I’m almost late, but I’m back, lots of impressive switchers, videos, layouts, and simply neat modeling work. Happy Switcher Saturday Everyone, and Happy New Year To…
Here's the latest switcher I bought. MTH RailKing East Penn RS1.
Charlie
Thanks for getting us started Patrick. Happy SW Sat! Great posts for the final SW Sat of the year! RS1 # 465 on the way to Mineola.
Happy and healthy New Year to everyone.
Andy
Railking
WOW!! You all have contributed some fabulous content!
Please continue to keep posting over this weekend and into the coming week. Next week I'll be out of town at a music conference and won't be able to start SWSAT. Not to worry though because our wonderful MELGAR will be kicking off SWSAT next Saturday which will be the first SWSAT of 2024.
I hope everyone has a happy and healthy new year!!!
Here are a few more pics. The top two are of my A5 as engineer Smokestack Merson bids farewell to relief engineer Hector Hugo. The bottom two pics are of my town's B&O Bollman Bridge all decorated out in holiday lights. The local parks department who now are in charge of the bridge decorate it each holiday season. This year about two thousand folks turned out to watch the bridge being lit for the first time this holiday season. Tonight on my way back from the gym, I stopped and snapped a few pics.
Once owned by the B&O Railroad this bridge, designed by Wendal Bollman, spans the Little Patuxent River in Savage, Md where the B&O brought raw cotton to the mill. Once at the mill, the raw cotton was transformed into cotton duck, which is a heavy canvas like material used in making tents used by the U.S. Army and sails for sail ships. The cotton duck was then transported by B&O to various locations throughout the U.S. This bridge is a Civil Engineering Landmark and is on the roster of National Historic Places.
Fireman Billy Newsom is topping of the tender.
Thank you, Pat for starting us off! Have a great time at the music conference!!
Arnold, one of the things I like best about the Forum is what I learn from fellow Forumites like you. I never heard of the Philadelphia, Bethlehem and New England either, but now I know it was the Bethlehem Steel shop railroad. Thanks!
John
@trumpettrain posted:WOW!! You all have contributed some fabulous content!
I hope everyone has a happy and healthy new year!!!
Once owned by the B&O Railroad this bridge, designed by Wendal Bollman, spans the Little Patuxent River in Savage, Md where the B&O brought raw cotton to the mill. Once at the mill, the raw cotton was transformed into cotton duck, which is a heavy canvas like material used in making tents used by the U.S. Army and sails for sail ships. The cotton duck was then transported by B&O to various locations throughout the U.S. This bridge is a Civil Engineering Landmark and is on the roster of National Historic Places.
One of the most unique bridges I've ever seen.
Another great SWSat in the books. Thanks Pat for keeping the diesel engines warm and the fireboxes stoked.
Happy New Year to all!
Bob
Larry, being "almost late" is better than stretching SWSAT into Sunday as I seem to do quite often. Since Patrick started us off with a hard working K-Line A5 I'll share my K-Line Anheuser-Busch A5 dressed up for the AB 150th Anniversary.
Thank you Patrick for getting us rolling this weekend and thank you to all the usual suspects for your continuing contributions to this fine thread.
Arnold, sorry to hear about the oil leak. Glad it didn't effect the layout. That smell will linger for a while.
tnkMarx do I spy a K-Line NYC Pacific in the lower left hand corner? Looks like a 3010 to me.
Strap Hanger, I've got a MTH Rail King Dash-9 in BNSF livery. I wonder if that's the tooling used for Lionel's truncated Dash-8?
Donnie those K-line Plymouths are great little critters. It's truly a shame nobody else produced anything from that tooling. I believe it must have been lost in all the acquisitions and turnovers that have gone on in the post K-line Chinese manufacturing industry.
PennsyFan your Dairy Doll seems to be a really upgraded Pasticville Frosty Bar. Is that custom handiwork or was it commerically available?
@mpeck161 posted:The engine is weathered and has the full United States Navy text removed since none of those locomotives in real life have it. Sorry the boxcars are hard to read when weathered and in perhaps a dark light but the cars and caboose read USN with an NWS logo on the caboose.
Thanks for the clarification.
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