Switcher Saturday 2-27-21

Moving essential commodities......

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Rusty

Picking up empty grain cars.

Happy SWSAT everyone. This morning Buzz is dropping off a Milwaukee Road Menards car at the C.E.S. warehouse. Enjoy your weekend  

Yay! SWSat is off to a strong start as usual.

This morning the sun has not appeared behind some of the buildings around the yard. The crew one of my K-line Plymouths is pondering how to get across the yard and pick up that Orange Juice car. I haven’t the heart to tell him that that OJ car has not been converted to 2 rail o scale yet.   So that should be a fun conversation.

Hopefully the bosses new 300ZX is not parked too close.  

Keep up the great entries. I can’t wait to see what you guys post.

Happy SWSAT, everyone!

Penn Central SW8 8616 (Atlas O) spots a hopper at the grain elevator:

Tom

Happy Swsat

Here is the latest addition to the layout, a Williams GP 30.  As you can see it has nice detail, is a great runner, and has basic prime mover sounds.

Here it is in action with two other Chesapeake and Ohio diesel-electric locomotives.

Have a wonderful day!   😀

I bought this MTH Railking New York Central 0-8-0 (30-1123-1) #415 steam switcher with PS1 in 1998 and have been running it (with a BCR) ever since. My PS1 engines have been excellent values for the money, although some people consider them obsolete and would not buy one today. With their PS1 sounds, they are much better than the engines I had as a youngster in the 1950s, even without speed control or advanced “features.” These videos show the engine running at thirty-eight and twenty-five scale-miles-per-hour on my 12’-by-8’ layout.

MELGAR

Good morning fellow switcher fans!   Great pics/videos and info you all!  Today I am remembering a year ago when toilet paper was considered a rare and precious commodity.  Have a great weekend everyone!  Be safe = Be well!

Have a great SWsat Day! 🚂😉😺

Happy SWSat!

Another great Saturday morning. This week another shot of my new arrival. Shout out to @Mike Caruso for putting it up for sale. Thanks again Mike! Part of my layout is under construction so I haven't run it yet but I powered it up the other night and it sounds great.

Have a great weekend!

Bob

TALES OF THE DOCKSIDER

This Saturday we find NYC shop switcher X-8688 back on “search and rescue” duty.  She has been called on again  to retrieve foreign power from the Worcester yard.  Her crew is thinking “don’t we have enough work just taking care of the home road power”?

Today’s “invaders” come all the way from the Mid-Atlantic states.  C&O RDC1 no. 400 has suffered a transmission failure.  Trailing RDC4 no. 2550 is in good operating condition, but the shop supervisor chose to tow both units to avoid damage to 2550’s transmission.

Regular “Docksider” readers will notice this edition contains another unexplained mystery; what is motive power designed for commuter duty doing so far from home?  We’ll never know!

John

Don’t know why I said 400 was C&O instead of B&O!

Evening is approaching as a H6sb is pulling some cars out to local industries.  It is late 1949 and this little engine, a PRR mainline freighter when it first appeared in 1905, will soon do its last switching job.  It, as well as nearly all of the over 2,000 H6 engines built, will soon be scraped.

The engine is 3rd Rail.  Hopper is Weaver, others are Atals.

This section of the layout is where I'd really like to find some nice warehouse fronts for loading/unloading my freight cars.

My MTH Buffalo Creek S2 and a Erie boxcar I just painted...

Tom

Well it's SWSat again, and although somewhat short of time today I can't let a Sat go by without some minor contribution.  I thought I would post a complete set made by Hornby from March 1947 until April 1954.  It is the #201 "Goods Set", one of their mid-priced clockwork set using the LMS type 101 tank loco and freight wagons.

Here is the end label showing the set designation and the red circle sticker identifying this set as the "LMS" variant.  It was made with a green livery for "Southern" RR.

The box lid, showing that Hornby like all other toy train manufacturers had no restraint in exaggerating  the contents of the set in relationship to the box cover picture!

The set contents.  It included an oval of track, three freight cars including a lumber load for the stake wagon.  The small box on the right side held "track clips" designed to hold the track together and prevent gaps from derailing the train.  There was no transformer of course as like most Hornby engines, it is clockwork.

Well not exactly a switcher but iaw the rules...but little hard working motive power to be sure.

Don

Great postings, happy Switcher Saturday to all.

BRC 534 working the East yard this Saturday switching out Miracle Manufacturing:

Tom

                                                   Bens EL 513  #1954

@Don McErlean posted:

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Well not exactly a switcher but iaw the rules...but little hard working motive power to be sure.

Don

Hey the 4-6-0 on the box lid  (or 4-6-2, I can't quite tell,) may not be a Switcher,  but an 0-4-0 pannier loco will always be welcome in this thread.  Besides, I have a clockwork Hornby too, and I think they're awesome.

Jhz563:  thanks and glad my Hornby was welcome. Good to know you have one too!  I really love the entries we get on Switcher Sat as my layout at only 40” wide can take little else.

Best wishes

Don

Great pictures everyone, Trumptrain, great memory of a time of need, (paper products), cool idea, Don McErlean, As always, your picture of the day is Awesome, oldie but a goodie, tinplate is fun to view, nice set, that’s a beautiful set, Sirt, that’s a great looking Lackawanna switcher, nice weathering to, your a master at weathering, Tom Q Fan, very nice LifeSaver diesel, neat layout to, great switching maneuver in front of the Revell building, CAPPilot, that’s a neat Steamer H6sb, spotting some cool cars, Lee Drennen, cool video, cool train, Everyone have a great Saturday, thanks for showing your switchers, great thread. Happy Railroading Everyone

Larry:  thanks for the compliment. I love your “Ford” switcher for sure I wonder if Henry had such a loco in his huge Michigan plant?

Best wishes

Don

https://www.american-rails.com/66056.html

Rusty

Looking amazing as usual everyone.

Hornby engine heading out with some empties on the local.

Edit - it's much quieter in person!

My CJB Custom Painted MTH Switcher.

Rusty Traque:  Thank you for the Alco S3 link. What great pictures and historical data.  I now know that Mr. Ford had 6 S-3 in operation. Really neat to know.

Jhz563 thanks for the video of your Hornby tank 0-4-0. They do run great, you know we tend to associate clockwork with cheap toys but in other times and places mfrs like Hornby made quality clockwork products.  Someday I am going to find out how to make videos and post them. So far no joy

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Rusty Traque:  Thank you for the Alco S3 link. What great pictures and historical data.  I now know that Mr. Ford had 6 S-3 in operation. Really neat to know.

Jhz563 thanks for the video of your Hornby tank 0-4-0. They do run great, you know we tend to associate clockwork with cheap toys but in other times and places mfrs like Hornby made quality clockwork products.  Someday I am going to find out how to make videos and post them. So far no joy

Don

Don, are you posting from a computer or a smart phone.   Let us know what type of tech you are using and I am sure we can walk you through posting a video.

jhz563:  That would be great, I have become so baffled that I can't figure out what is wrong.  I take the video with my smartphone.  I can look at the video and its fine.  I can then transfer the video file to my computer where if I open it it also works fine.  But I cannot transfer the file from my computer to the forum post thread.  That is where it all goes wrong.

Any help, would be most appreciated.

Don

I post videos from my computer in exactly the same way as if they were photographs - using "Add Attachments." There is a 100 MB limit on file size. Are your videos less than that?

MELGAR

Melgar, I have tried that and so far have not been successful. So I am obviously doing something wrong.  I don't believe the video I was working with was greater than 100 mb but I will check that for sure and try again.  Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Don

I keep my videos below 50 seconds so they are less than 100MB. I do everything from my smartphone.

@Don McErlean posted:

Melgar, I have tried that and so far have not been successful. So I am obviously doing something wrong.  I don't believe the video I was working with was greater than 100 mb but I will check that for sure and try again.  Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Don

I was going to say the same thing.   Go to your computer and look at the file size.  Any post on the forum can be no larger than 100 Mb.  If you have two videos that add up to more than 100, than you can only use one per post.

The video generally needs to be short.  Start with 30 seconds and see what size that is, sometimes you can get close to minute.

What type of smart phone are you using?  I often upload to the forum directly from my phone.

My email is in my profile.   Send me an email and we can trade phone numbers if you like.

Trying to upload a video...just a test   No joy just a black box.  Video is 13.5 mb so is below the limit.  Not sure what is happening.  Will continue to work problem...Don

That worked just fine Don!  Centercab, two boxcars, and a caboose.  As a constructive criticism, next time take the video horizontally to avoid the big black bars on the screen.   

@Don McErlean posted:

Trying to upload a video...just a test   No joy just a black box.  Video is 13.5 mb so is below the limit.  Not sure what is happening.  Will continue to work problem...Don

Don- you have done it! As JHZ said- just hold the phone horizontally next time.

Congrats!

jhz563/RSJB18 :  Thank you both !!  you have in one e-mail solved the last "mystery"  (LOL)   Horizontal it shall be, forthwith!!

You know, I am working in our dining room and I showed the "first" video to my wife.  Her comment was..."why the big black lines"....So after is reply..."Beats me!" I get your posts...Fantastic...Thank you both for taking the time to respond.

Respectfully

Don

Don McErlean, wow, what a flick, Excellent video, afterwards we could stop at McDonalds.... Great, now, my friend, I must learn this new technology.... Thank you for jumping in the water, I’m going to follow soon.... Happy Railroading Everyone...