Switcher Saturday: 2015-Feb-21

A Pennsy 0-6-0 shifter, and a yard goat 0-8-0. Click on the triangle to access a video.   

Thanks GUYZ looks great!!!

What an awesome video, wow!!!  I really enjoyed it very much, great layout and lots of fun!

A little guy at work...

This pic was from last week.......a switcher-headed MOW train.......

Peter

A MTH 0-4-0 on spotting duty.

Top - cab forward 0-4-0 tank engine made from a Lionel 0-4-0 shifter

Middle - MTH NW-2 and calf switchers

Bottom - Lionel 0-4-0 Shifter

Here's Seaboard 0-6-0 1093 taking a lunch break.  She's a MTH Railking Imperial USRA 0-6-0 I repainted into SAL livery and installed Kadee couplers.  Smooth, slow running engine:

Here's SAL NW2 #1410 hard at work:

I've got a number of switchers in HO, both steam and diesel. 

Here are two of my 3 O gauge switchers. One is dead and a display item until I get enough interest and desire to bring it back to life....in short, it will be a while, actually, MTH recataloged it in a recent catalog. 

Hey everyone, I love the pictures, just plain cool.

These LionChief+ NW2 engines look like they are going to be awesome little switchers, I can imagine the remotes and lower cost of entry (lower cost is relative) are going to make it very fun to create small switching layouts.

ATSF 1326 and slug working the mainline.

ATSF SWEEP 1455 working the grain elevators.

UP 1108, CBS 85, yard slug working in the yard.

Great topic!

Here's our New York Central S2 

One of my favorites:

I'll join in next week. 

Don

Here's another.  Photobucket lost my 3-rail switcher! So all you get is 2-rail stuff from me this week.

Having no switcher the H7 has been pressed into service.

A RMT BNSF working the yard.

Click on the triangle to access a video. These SW9s were MU'ed for 100 car coal trains. They were new to the Pittsburg and Shawmut RR 1952.  The GP7 is a Pennsy hand-me-down.  Road-switchers, 1,200 Hp/ea.,  6,000 Hp.   Turn the volume up. 

Wow,

Just came across this great topic.  Super pictures everybody...great videos MikeCT.

John

This is my switcher.

And here my layout switcher

MikeCT has posted two separate videos to this thread, neither of which I can view.  I see only a big white blank spot in his post where I assume the video link should be.

I am using latest version of Firefox browser to access forum.  Anyone else have this problem?

Chuck

heres my mth genset i recieved last week

Try these (2) Photobucket links:

http://s175.photobucket.com/us...html?sort=6&o=83

http://s175.photobucket.com/us....html?sort=3&o=1

USRA 0-6-0 out cleaning up a wreck involving Hudson 5453.

Pete

Here are a few of my PRR switchers:

K-Line A5 upgraded with cruise and 4-chuffs/revolution. 

K-Line B6 upgraded with cruise and 4 chuffs/revolution.

Weaver C1 upgraded with cruise.

MTH SW-1 with PS-2 modified with the small pickup rollers to prevent hang up on uncoupling tracks.

All are excellent little engines that I will use in my yards (well, the C1 isn't that little).  The A5 sounds like a machine gun even at slow speeds, and its great.

Raritan River #2 & hack #9 working the line on the NB&L....

N.Y.C. 0-6-0 #223

MTH RAILKING NS SW1500 #2209.

Very nice weathering!

The only switcher I have is a K-Line US Steel Plymouth which has been run a total of three times. The local D.A.R.E. Model Railroad Club has a sizeable fleet of switchers. One Lionel or K-Line Pennsy A5s, an Atlas Pennsylvania SW9, three MTH Railking Montour SW9s (two powered), a currently non-functional MTH Railking Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad SW1500, and a bunch of postwar Lionel steam and diesel switchers the club hasn't run in a while. On the On30 side, the club has one Bachmann Davenport and one Bachmann 0-4-2T.

Great pictures everyone! Once I get my train room cleaned up and My Layout running again I will post some pic's as well!