Switcher Saturday: 2016-Dec-17

This picture was taken of us with the big guy four years ago on a ride out of the B&O Museum, wow how they've grown!

Yay! SWSat is on!

Grrat post this week Rich from my favorite museum. When I turned 16 and got my drivers license in VA my first real road trip was to the B&O Museum. I went by myself and this apparently was terrifying to my Aunt. She in the pre cell phone 1980's was afraid to leave her home phone thinking I was in mortal peril. 

It really is a great museum steeped in historic artifacts. Their pre 20th century collection is sublime. 

Also I like that that Santa is not a run of the mill everyday one. 

Here are a few pics of my Williams B&O NW2 in honor of the place. 

S2's......................

Happy Switcher Saturday and Merry Christmas everyone. It's snowing here in the Hudson Valley, so it seems like Winter is here now. 

Nice pictures Rich, Andy and SIRT. 

My contribution this week is a December 1940 Lionel ad that I dug up on my computer yesterday. Using the lingo of the time, I will say it is just "swell!"

Tom

Hey guys, great pictures so far.  SIRT you're seriously amazing.  Andy, I love that little NW and Tom - does that advert actually say eight bucks for a set?  Wow!

Great Pictures MikeCT - Merry Christmas to all you guys!

Rich Rich Rich...that's what the Wife's purse is for....cram that sucker with cookies and crackers to keep the kiddies busy....

Coal for Christmas is the title for this switcher's duties. The six hoppers in front are Weaver, followed by K Line die cast 4 bays pulled by a K Line Pennsy 0-4-0 and tailed with a K Line Pennsy caboose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4MjTL7kGvw

SIRT, wow fabulous weathering!

Steamer posted:

Rich Rich Rich...that's what the Wife's purse is for....cram that sucker with cookies and crackers to keep the kiddies busy....

Steamer where is this bottom picture taken. I ask because I'm interested in the caboose. I made a replica of a very similar one. The prototype still exists supposedly in a private collection but I've never seen it in person. The vertical grabs, two trucks on such a short body and the corner posts are very much like the ones I've studied so much. 

I have no idea, all it said with the pic was the date 10/69

Finished my MTH SW1 yesterday. Completely scratch built pilots and steps. Reused the front and rear railing stanchions but extended the railings. 

Steamer posted:

I have no idea, all it said with the pic was the date 10/69

Thank you Dave. The search continues. 

Cold this morning here in Northern California so thoughts turned to Spring.  I no longer have a working camera so dug this old photo up to share.  As always, I enjoy the pictures that you guys post.  Merry Christmas, Jim

Silver Lake posted:

Steamer posted:

I have no idea, all it said with the pic was the date 10/69

Thank you Dave. The search continues. 

most of the pics I post just have the date, and once in a while there will be a location.

A new arrival this week.

Steamer /Dave I did a little research and that caboose is the caboose I was copying. The engine is one of the 13 Solvay Processing 0-4-0T engines from around Schenectady,NY  that Dr.Stanley Groman acquired for his Rail City Muesum in Sandy Pond NY. The caboose was part of that collection and the phot dates to around when the museum was closing. They were Baldwin made a few have gone to other museums.

 Here is a near identical sister engine also from Rail City days it had the same number font.  

wow, any idea what happened to the equipment?

Good afternoon SWSAT friends!!  Be - lated happy birthday Rich!!!  Yes and Switcher Saturday friends outing to the Baltimore Railroad Museum would be great!!  

Since I'm seeing a lot of B&O today, I'm contributing some photos from my B&O switcher stable.  Sorry if any are repeats.   Have a great week everyone!!

I grew up on repeats on TV, still rather watch I Love Lucy or a Jimmy Stewart or John Wayne movie I've seen dozens of times. 

B&O NW-2 (Lion Chief Plus) moving some gondola loads.

These are the new Lionel gondola 6-packs.

The LV 627 has brought an important load up to the front edge side track. They had an extra crew member today to help out.  Ready for all to enjoy.   Azgary

Steamer posted:

wow, any idea what happened to the equipment?

Quickly this is what I found. I was mistaken before when I said they were Baldwin they were ALCO.

http://www.steamlocomotive.com...vay+&country=USA

There are 9 surviving steamers. Two operable. They wound up in Michigan, North Carolina, New York, PA, South Carolina and Missouri. 

Its hard to believe but here is a much altered #57 back in steam at the Old Thresers Show in Missouri.

Rich, I remember reading it was your birthday, but then forgot to say..."Happy Birthday!" Good luck on the video you are working on. 

Tom 

Here's my Lionel postwar 600 with some updates  side grab handles,  installed radio wheel , back handrails,  and a frame skirt  along with some LED lights   along with a Stick on GM decal 

Right now its doing duty under the Christmas Tree  looking forward to a new layout in 2017!

Here is my Long Island RS-1 in the yard.

Andy

Happy Birthday! Rich!

Here's a cake. I hope N Scale is OK. 

MNCW posted:

Rich, I remember reading it was your birthday, but then forgot to say..."Happy Birthday!"

Tom 

 

Likewise...Happy Birthday

missed that too...Happy Birthday Rich!

Thanks all for the bday wishes, the family got me this nice boxcar from our LHS (Star Hobby in Annapolis MD).

It hasn't seen the rails yet (this is a Lionel/Stock photo), I need to get my act together here tonight or tomorrow!

Silver Lake posted:

Happy Birthday! Rich!

Here's a cake. I hope N Scale is OK. 

Silver Lake - Now this is down right creative!!!  I love it!!!!

Happy Birthday Rich and Happy Switcher Saturday to all.

Here is a picture of my two Alcos !   A Rs-1 & RS-3 running on my oval of track I just set up tonite .  

The first steam switcher on my roster was this MPC Lionel 0-4-0, No. 6-8635.  I felt the need for a steam switcher and found this one at Grzyboski's table at a Greenberg show here on Long Island years ago.  It started out like as a Santa Fe but I didn't model that road or the west so I re-lettered it for a more generic road that some of my eastern roads may interchange with.

Happy Birthday Rich!

Andy

I've always loved switchers, ever since I received my Lionel 0-4-0 switcher and work train set from "Santa" in 1956. My son has always loved steam trains and has become a restorer/builder of steam locomotives.

In 2006, he bought a derelict engine that was on display on the highway in front of an amusement park with a chicken restaurant. It is a Porter locomotive built in 1909. The engine was bought by the Santa Cruz Portland Cement company near Santa Cruz, California. She was numbered SCPC #2. The engine was worn out and derelict for approximately 50 years.  He restored it completely and had it running by November, 2013. 

One highlight in 2014, was returning SCPC #2 to its old neighborhood, Santa Cruz, and Felton, CA and running there for a week at the Roaring Camp Railroad and down to the Santa Cruz boardwalk. 

It is a thrill to ride in the cab with my son who received his first Lionel train set from "Santa" when he was 3 years old. We both love switchers!!!! Someone took a picture of my son the engineer and me in the doorway while he was switching cars in the Roaring Camp yards, July 13, 2014  

Great story WP/John. Your son did a great job on that engine. It looks as good as new. You must be very proud.

Silver Lake posted:

Great story WP/John. Your son did a great job on that engine. It looks as good as new. You must be very proud.

Thank you Silver Lake! Yes, I am very proud of him. His engine runs beautifully; he did an excellent job, and the engine is very powerful. Lots of fun!

Here's a photo of SCPC 2 pulling  the Roaring Camp passenger train at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk, heading back up to Felton and Roaring Camp. (Photo by Elrond Lawrence, July, 2014)