Switcher Saturday: 2015-Jun-20

Note...don't want to forget the "great grandfathers"...there are a few of us out here!...

 

Thanks for starting "Switcher Saturday" again...one of my favorite topic threads...

 

Howard

SIRT, I have no shelf queeens - I run everything I have.  However, I like to keep 'em clean. I guess it's just that I like the bright colors.

 

That said, I'm very impressed with the weathering you did on 5114.  The second and third shots above show off your work very well!

@SIRT - really awesome pics!

@Howard - Sorry I didn't include Great Grandads!

Model of the newly shopped 0-6-0 assigned by Spencer Shops as Greensboro's passenger yard switcher in 1950. Replaced "stinking diesel" that was demoted out to Pomona Yard.

A mystery switcher heading to the nuclear reactor.

 

 

     Bill T

Need to re-launch the old Memorex ad campaign....

 

"Is it real, or is it SIRT?"

Here is a quick one of almost all of the Monopoly Game Railroads switchers. I still don't know which is the "Short Line". The game is not one that we are able to play in our family because of the brutal and grueling end game where only one person ends up feeling any good.

A K-line and Two WBBs.

And here is a repost of my girls with a New York BEDT (among others) vet now painted for NYC living out life as a Park engine in Riverside Park Manhattan.

 

 

Here is my boy also in Riverside Park the stone structure behind him hides the ex NYC Westside main tracks that Amtrak still uses to take trains from Penn Station to Albany and beyond. They built a huge structure to bury the tracks in the park from around 40st to 70th and again 72th to 124th street. Then above ground to the swing bridge at Spyten Dyvel where it reconnect to the main tracks at the Wye there. I tried to keep it RR related. This picture causes my own shoulders to hurt.

 

Happy Fathers Day!

Thanks Tom, I try my best!

 

 

No problem...I'm only looking out for the "older" guys!... 8-)

 

Howard...

great pics all

 

 

   Here's some custom painted switchers I did awhile back!

A few old photos of the D.AR.E. Model Railroad Club's MTH Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad SW1500 on the club layout and my old home layout. Also featuring a Bachmann On30 Davenport and a K-line USS Steel Plymouth switcher.

It's killing me that I can not participate switcher Saturday. The layout is out of commission due to laying a new floor in the basement.

 

Enjoying the pictures though.

 

Signed

 

The Switcheraholic

Yup, I would like to participate more... but right now all I have is a barely started layout that is slated for dismantling.

 

HOWEVER...

 

It's gonna' be replaced by a bigger n' better one! The building is ready to be finished on the inside and then I can occupy! Just tonight I started tinkering with the pencil n' templates for the "next one".

 

Still, though, maybe I can shoot a pic of one of my switchers before next the SWSAT.

well guys, do what I've been doing, post pics of the real things. I can't keep reposting pics of my sole switcher. although I have a couple orphan slope backs I could show.....

Excellent idea Dave!

 

Here 'ya go: Frisco VO1000 #229 switching at Springfield, Mo., on March 17, 1953...

 

 

Two for one. James

Not sure if I posted these before but here goes.James

Great pictures this week!  Thanks to everyone for sharing and Happy Father's Day...Rich

I'm late to the gate this week with a busy Saturday now behind me! 

 

CSX GP-15 crosses over Tonawanda Creek while working the west side.

 

 

 

Soooo... am I seeing a narrow gauge Cow n' Calf unit here?

 

Either way, very interesting and certainly deserves the "Weirdest Of The Thread" award thus far!

 

EDIT: Forgot to add...

 

Alibatwomble: That is the best looking Lionel 520 mod I've seen!  Good work!

Get away weekend to the upper tier counties of Pennsylvania.  Wellsboro and Corning RR.

 

You gotta love all the green and wet, A couple of the upper tier counties have less than 20,000 people.  Wellsboro, Tioga Co. about 40,000.

More ducks and geese than people.

 

Two counties to the west, McKean Co.   Knox, Kane, Kinzua RR. remains of the Kinzua viaduct. Major construction, as this state park is being upgraded.

 

 

I scalified a 14 year old S Helper Service SW9 this morning from Flyer-compatible.

 

Before and after:

 

Rusty

Been there many times. Family lives in Bradford. Went across the bridge back in the day. Tornado came through there.

S.

I'm BAAAaack!

 

Happened to think of one I haven't shared so I just snapped a couple of pics of my last HO modeling back in 1997 or so. This from my proto-lanced theme I called the "Kansas City & Gulf".  Basic concept: Bankrupt line as modeled in 1969-1970 time frame. I modeled the mythical "Ozark Subdivision".  Liked junky looking engines then (still do), and the bankrupt theme and time frame lent itself well to that.

 

Anway... here's a couple more for this week's SWSAT!!