Switcher Saturday: 2015-Oct-10

Happy Switcher Saturday!

Two pictures from me. One is of a Lionel prewar #227 up for sale at one of the White Plains (NY) Toy & Train Shows. Yes, I bought it. 

The other is a postwar Lionel #1656 on my last switching layout. Check out those hand painted clouds!

Tom 

A couple more from George Ellwood's Fallen Flag site. The script names painted on the units were in reference to guns and those who marketed guns, example: Oliver Winchester. Those in charge of the Shawmut RR at the time were gun enthusiast. So I was told.  

My custom paint models. My father worked for the Shawmut RR.

 Bob mentioned Aliquippa & Southern a couple of posts up.  Here's one...

Picked this little guy up at my late Uncle's this week. I'd seen it over the years, but just thought it was a battery operated engine. I took a look at it, and was surprised to see Lionel on the bottom. I'm pretty sure it's a DC loco, so it'll be a just for display. It's had a hard life.

and would this count as a switcher? It is an 0-4-0... My Grandmother bought it for my Uncle years ago at the local GC Murphy's for $1.

Aliquippa and Southern from George Ellwood's Fallen Flag Site.  Was part of J&L Steel along the Ohio River at the time.

Atlas had done some very nice models of the Aliquippa and Southern SW9's

Weaver's A5 upgraded to TMCC and electro-couplers.

Yay! Sw Sat is on!

Great pictures so far on my favorite weekly forum post.

This week I am posting some images of the small class of small engines that has made such a big impact on the hobby of model railroads that there are fairly accurate models offered in almost all popular scales from N to G. It seems to have coined the term "Docksider" because of where they worked. Models in HO scale date back to the 1940s from Bowser and Varney. In 3 rail O scale we had to wait until the 90's when we got models from MTH and Right of Way.

This is all a big impact for a small class of 4 small engines.

The B&O C-16 class of engines were built in the 1920s as small saddle tank switchers. They were numbered 96,97,98 and 99. Two the 96 and 97 became a further subclass the C-16a when they were fitted with tenders in a rebuild. They spent thier service life in the Fells Point area of Baltimore and the docks area of Philadelphia. They were all scrapped by the late 1950's.

Bob,

Really like your pictures of switchers in bicentennial paint schemes.  I have several O gauge engines that celebrate the Bicentennial, but only one that could be considered a switcher.  Here is my Weaver GP-38.

Fill-er-up!

The Shawmut RR also did a GP 7 that they got used from Pennsy in bicentennial colors.

Note again that the 357 refers to a gun.  I did not have the decal at the time.  When painted new this had Dan Wesson on the side of the unit.

Additional picture from rrpicturearchives.net

Well, we wuz switchin' with this thing back in '86, so it must be a switcher:

Rusty

Rusty: Perhaps the ultimate steam switcher.....

Hey Silverlake - Thanks for the photos of the B&O dockside's!!  Its a great and mighty little locomotive that certainly made a difference on the real B&O and certainly for the model railroad hobby.   I'll be posting some photos of my B&O docksider as she worked the Mountain Division of the Free State Junction Railway pulling a fall harvest freight.

Here is some switcher activity of the Free State Junction Railway this week.  Includes some shots of a B&O docksider that has been reassigned to the Mountain Division for the fall harvest season. Thanks again to Silverlake for his AWESOME docksider photos!!!!

Now here is switching in the FSJR in Patsburg!

Thanks Andy (Silver Lake) for giving me the idea to take pics of my Lionel (left) & MTH (right) Dockside Switchers!

Let's add a little ALCo - okay, MLW really - smoke to this week's proceedings.

Bob 

Here is a movie and a still shot from The Free State Junction Railway in Patsburg, Md. Featuring B&O Docksider and a Western Maryland 44 toner ( well it looks like a 90 tonner ... a Williams remake of the Lionel PW 44 toner ... and it still looks cool on my layout ) 

You may have to scroll to bottom of page to see the short video.  sorry bout that!

love these shots, I have the C&O 624 since 1950, still running strong.

Love this tread.

Some juice being moved around.

Wow! Very nice model of the S2M rebuild. What a fun model it really looks great and evokes such a specific time and railroad. I like the subtle weathering as well. It looks in service

(Also I grew up along the RF&P line and will always have a soft spot for the Juice train)

thanks for posting. 

The Alaskan RR vulcan switcher working the yard on the Seattle & Yakima RR

     Bill T.

i echo exactly what was said by "CNJ 3676"...

..."I'd like to take a moment to thank you again for starting this thread each week. It obviously brings a lot of joy to many folks and I just wanted to say thanks again. I look forward to it each week."...

and...i have a question for "Bill T...

i have the us army transportation version of the alaska switcher you posted...but mine does not like switches and derails 90% of the time...any suggestions?...what brand of switches do you use?...

howard...

TVA switcher

Neal Jeter

Howard, I have around 20 or so Ross or Gargraves switches on the layout, 054, 072 and 105. Never have had any issues with dead spots or derailing with the Vulcan type switchers, I have about a dozen of the Vulcan type switchers.

   Bill T.

since this guy is DC, it'll make a perfect load for my spotlight car that's missing everything.

And I finally got some layout pics of my new to me 1622. when I got it, it needed rewiring.Haven't figured out how to change the wore to the front coupler, so I'll let that go for a while. I left the rods off because when I got it running, it was suffering from "stickious e unitious". The more I ran it after cleaning, the less it happened....until I put the shell back on of course. and it's no wonder so many of these lost their markers..this thing runs like a rocket! Maybe when I get a die cast tender it'll slow it down some.

Great pics and info as always!

Peter

For many pix of switchers, steam, diesel, electric (incl steeplecabs), try"

http://members.trainweb.com/be...ndloco/btphotos.html