Switcher Saturday 2-20-21

Happy Switcher Saturday!

GP30 moving a tank car early this morning.

Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal 0-6-0T switcher #15 is a new LionChief LC+ 2.0 model shown on my 10’-by-5’ layout. Brooklyn had waterfront short-line railroads that received freight cars on barges from New Jersey and delivered them to local businesses and industries including the New York Naval Shipyard. My switcher is pulling Waldbaum’s and Schaefer Beer refrigerator cars – companies who both did business in New York City and surrounding areas. The Schaefer brewery was very close to a BEDT yard, but the consist is fictitious. The Lionel 0-6-0T is a good model of BEDT #15, which was built by Porter in 1917.

MELGAR

Happy SWSAT! Hope everyone is safe and warm today. I caught this Guy at a customer Switching from the High track to the low track yesterday. Enjoy your weekend

@tnkMarx posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday!

GP30 moving a tank car early this morning.

Very Kewl, Loving the Caboose and the scene. Question #1. Car on the roof.  Question #2. Whale Tail Porsche. Must be on a coffee run for the wife, very urgent reason to take er out in the wintertime. :-)

Great layout, thanks for sharing

Penn Central SW8 8616 (Atlas O) sneaks down an industrial spur:

Tom

@Miggy posted:

Very Kewl, Loving the Caboose and the scene. Question #1. Car on the roof.  Question #2. Whale Tail Porsche. Must be on a coffee run for the wife, very urgent reason to take er out in the wintertime. :-)

Great layout, thanks for sharing

Miggy, what about the tractor on the sidewalk?

Have a great weekend!

Happy SWSat!

A new addition to the fleet this week. Been looking for an RS-1 for a while and a forum member posted this FS last week. MTH PS-2. Haven't powered it up yet but I put it on the rails this morning for some pix.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Bob

Yay! SWSat is on track to a great start this week. Nice shots so far.

Well I am still going through my phone looking at old pictures and last February it is hard to believe now but I was in Madrid Spain for work. It is hard to believe that I used to leave this couch.

When I do travel I try to go to whatever RR museums there are. Madrid has a great one with a surprising amount of American built equipment. It is based in a no longer used covered platform  station that was used to film parts of the movie “Dr Ziavago”.

The oldest engine in the collection is a 2-2–2T built in 1862 in England.

As in the US early engines did a bit of everything and there were no purpose built switchers. This engine was sold eventually into a factory where it worked as plant switcher into the early 1960’s.

This is an English Sharpe Stewart built saddle tank 0-6-0T “ Pucher”.

A little 0-4-0T out front.

This one is a 0-4-0 wheelbases Yorkshire powered by Rolls Royce.

I’m sure most here would recognize this face even with it’s Euro stylings. It is a Alco/IR box cab  just like it’s American cousins. And here is the engineers controls.

There were a bunch of other interesting things that don’t exactly fit into the switcher theme here like a full ACF Talgo train, several Passenger Alcos and even a MOW Power Wagon. Fun stuff if we can ever travel again.

The kids had off school this week so we went on a snowshoe hike up the NYO&W former ROW. We also stopped and looked at the closed for COVID  RR Museum in Roscoe NY.

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

She's Thawed Out! Just in time for Switcher Saturday! I can hardly contain my excitement.... I was buying parts lot and looking for post war trucks, and she came with the lot. I feel like part of the Cool guys club now, (well, 'cept I lack skilz to model cool scenery and weather trains and have knowledge and...)

Happy Saturday to all, thanks for bringing light into the darkness. Now, I am off to the I buy Train stuff meeting.... "My Name is Miggy and I might be addicted to.." (FUN!, I know, Right) cheers= = =>

*See, I took photo and video LANDSCAPE mode for all the photographers out there. I keep telling my lovely wife that I CAN be trained. (trained haha, Train-ed)

@RSJB18 posted:

Happy SWSat!

A new addition to the fleet this week. Been looking for an RS-1 for a while and a forum member posted this FS last week. MTH PS-2. Haven't powered it up yet but I put it on the rails this morning for some pix.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Bob

"Wheres my PaintCan!" Beauty eh, Beauty, Remember the olden days? Bob, I have a switcher to paint New Haven Colors!

@coach joe posted:

Miggy, what about the tractor on the sidewalk?

Ahh, Yes Coach, but where I am from, that's just where they park. <chuckle>

Good morning fellow switcher fans!   Great pics everyone!!   Here are some shots of my B&O Dockside at work in night and day.   Also a short movie of my new WTC RS1.  Have a great weekend!! Be safe = Be well!

Work day begins before sun up.

Jake the brakeman.

Jake rides the pilot as the locomotive backs the trains along at 2 miles per hour.

After a day of satisfying the long switch list, the yard job creeps forward through the grade crossing.

Doing some switching at Butler Junction and around Patsburg.

The customers at Don's Barber Shop will get a nice view of the loco as she heads back to the round house at dusk ...creeping along at 5 mph.

The switch job starts and ends at O dark thirty each day.

Washington Terminal RS 1 meets a B&O Hudson stopped for a red signal.

@Miggy posted:

She's Thawed Out! Just in time for Switcher Saturday! I can hardly contain my excitement.... I was buying parts lot and looking for post war trucks, and she came with the lot. I feel like part of the Cool guys club now, (well, 'cept I lack skilz to model cool scenery and weather trains and have knowledge and...)

Happy Saturday to all, thanks for bringing light into the darkness. Now, I am off to the I buy Train stuff meeting.... "My Name is Miggy and I might be addicted to.." (FUN!, I know, Right) cheers= = =>

*See, I took photo and video LANDSCAPE mode for all the photographers out there. I keep telling my lovely wife that I CAN be trained. (trained haha, Train-ed)

Nice find Miggy. Welcome to the club get that thing running and let’s see some videos. “Buzz” was born a Santa Fe like yours but in a lot worse shape so I gave him a new paint job and decals one of my best Engines thanks for sharing

@Miggy posted:

Very Kewl, Loving the Caboose and the scene. Question #1. Car on the roof.  Question #2. Whale Tail Porsche. Must be on a coffee run for the wife, very urgent reason to take er out in the wintertime. :-)

Great layout, thanks for sharing

So, the late John Dixon had an "excessive transportation" museum called taj ma garaj in Dayton, OH.  It was made up of mostly Porsche cars, tractors, and a few VW's, some of them very rare and one of a kind.  He put a 911 and Porsche diesel Junior tractor on the roof.  Google taj ma garaj and see what he had.  1 1/2 years ago the family auction off the cars.  It was a sad day.

@coach joe posted:

Miggy, what about the tractor on the sidewalk?

The tractor is going on display in the Porsche dealership with the Porsche Cayenne on the roof.  They haven't figured out how to get it inside yet...

Great photos everyone! I hope your all having a fun Saturday and staying warm. As for me here are the same old switchers but moved a little.

It is Nov 17, 1947, and a cold morning in Harrisburg, PA.  The people and businesses in Harrisburg and the surrounding area have spent the last few days gathering food for the people of France and Italy, and loaded the items on several PRR X-29 boxcars with a banner on the side stating "Food For Friends" in English, French and Italian, and "From Harrisburg, PA".  The photographer caught the cars being pulled by a diesel switcher to the main line where the cars will be connected to the Friendship Train.  The train will continue to New York City where the precious cargo will be loaded on ships to continue to their destination.

The 44 tonner is a WbB engine, and the boxcars are Atlas.

TALES OF THE DOCKSIDER

Greetings, switcher fans!  Your yardmaster was delayed today due to the need to go out and shovel off some switches and clean snow off the automotive rolling stock.

No foreign power has been spotted in the Worcester, MA yards today.  A B&M snow plow extra was seen, however, powered by 0-8-0 no. 613.  She is pushing MEC plow no. 72 while NH 0-6-0 no. 2334 awaits clearance on the adjacent track.

The reason for the MEC plow appearing in Worcester is unknown, but - MEC and B&M being affiliated roads - it might have something to do with equipment sharing.  Even more curious is why a plow extra is out in an apparent summer landscape.  Don’t ask!

John

Some new additions to the roster. Great pictures everyone.

Charlie

Alco RS-1

VO-1000 Dummy

VO-1000

AS-616 Dummy

Looks like a grand slam Charlie!

Hello SwSat fans...like CAPPilot I am taking you back to about 1949 on the Leonardtown and Savannah today.  Its a sad day for steam fans as the L&S has taken receipt of a "new" diesel switcher to use on the wharf.  Now you will note neither of these engines is actually marked for the L&S and that's because the cheap L&S management does not buy NEW motive power.  Both these engines came from the PRR one in the early 40's to help with wartime traffic at the Port and never painted (there was a war on you know!).  The other, has just arrived today and maybe it will get painted now that peace has been declared...maybe but who knows.

Here the local Road Foreman of Engines, looks over this new steed while mentally comparing her to "old faithful" who worked so hard during the war years, but now desperately  needs a major (expensive) overhaul and boiler rebuild.  Management has decided that steam will bring in more revenue as scrap than as working motive power, a decision not all that popular with the operators.

Here the RFOE is talking to "old Joe" one of our remaining steam qualified engineers and listening to him complain about how that "new fangled" thing will NEVER pull what old 2295 pulled with ease.  The Poor foreman has management yelling in one ear about him moving to dieselize too slow and the engineers yelling in the other that its a waste of money.  Afraid that decision has been made by the accountants and not by the operators...the post war maintenance bill on existing steam worn out by war workload is just too high for their future value.  Sorry Joe...its the scrap line for 2295 (and maybe retirement for you).

Happy SWSat everyone.  Hope you all stay warm and healthy.

Don

Great Saturday pictures. I have a few more of my #115 working this Saturday:

Drop off at the IHB Interchange:

Load of coal for the roundhouse power plant.

Thanks all for another great Switcher Saturday.

Tom

MTH Proto 3 Imperial Long Island B6 Steam Switcher running on DCS:

and smokin' up the basement. LOL, Arnold

Arnold! That LIRR imperial MTH B-6 is Fantastic!!!

now I want one....oh well. I really enjoyed the sound and smoke, something I don’t see on my pike.

leroof

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

MTH Proto 3 Imperial Long Island B6 Steam Switcher running on DCS:

and smokin' up the basement. LOL, Arnold

That’s my favorite little steamer, Arnold. I’ve had it for about a year and I practically run it every time I fire up the layout. MTH really hit it out of the park with scale sizing and decent detailing for a great price.

Just finished up weathering my LionChief A-5.

Wow crew - thanks for another amazing Switcher Saturday everybody!  Congrats to to @trumpettrain, @RSJB18, @MELGAR, @Don McErlean and @cpowell on your new motive power, seems like lots of folks getting new power fever. (Sorry if I missed anyone. ) Also, I love the mth B-6 engines,  I almost sold mine once, glad I didn't.

Have you great week folks.  Feel free to continue adding to the thread all week,  it never really closes!