Switcher Saturday: 2016-Apr-16

a few pics before bed...on midnights.

light car on the way to the shop for some work.

Great pictures Dave, I hope you don't wait up till I post Switcher Saturday each week, sometimes I sleep in a bit...

Anyone go to York and see or buy any neat Switchers?

Good Morning! Here a postwar 1957, 625 44 tonner doing transfer work on a load of air activated cylinders.

franktrain

Good Morning FrankTrain, great pictures and your layout looks like a lot of fun, all the best and thanks for sharing...Rich

franktrain ,

Very nice 

Good luck, John

Happy SWSat guys!

Great Pics So far. I love the Lehigh Valley Concrete train Franktrain. The colors look great and you have to admire a matching train, set up for the company photographer.

I sence a center cab theme so I am adding images of the very distinctive 130 ton GE center cabs made for Fords River Rouge plant. There were 9 made in 1936 and they had distintive chrome grill ends. Some went on to serve on the WA&G and the later pics are from that time.

I'll throw a bone to the steamys and add a nice looking Ford steam switcher. I like the odd spacing on the drivers.

Another interesting Ford Switcher, found at http://rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22473 when googling for you #36 Andy.  All the best...Rich

Happy Switcher Saturday! I am ready to mix it up a little bit. I thought we might get a bit wild, no Pennsylvania Railroad B6 switchers from me this week. How about a Pennsylvania Railroad A5s? The 0-4-0 A5s is the smaller brother/sister of the larger 0-6-0 B6. The only known survivor of the A5s class , #94, can be found at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania.

Tom

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Here is my WbB 44T moving some passenger cars in behind the Sharks for a local run.

Not sure what I'm going to do with this neat little guy.  My original intent was to upgrade it with command, but after reading gunrunnerjohn's effort to do this I'm not so sure now.  Probably will sell it, but waiting I'm to see how MTH's 44T looks and runs before I make a final decision.

Hey Tom, I was oh-so-close to taking pics of the K-Line A5s this week but went with the B6 instead!

Hey Andy, here is another Ford switcher, found at this link: http://www.martynbane.co.uk/peckett/locos.htm

Very similar (same?) as the last one.  BTW, that link is pretty nice, all about Peckett Locomotives, I can't remember if you've highlighted them yet over the past here on Switcher Saturday.

Murnane posted:

Another interesting Ford Switcher, found at http://rypn.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=22473 when googling for you #36 Andy.  All the best...Rich

Cool Rich! I think this one is British. I like the pinstriping. The cab and the buffers (those round things that look like Push Pins) on the front beam are the tells.

Very nice looking. I think ACE or Bassett Lowke may make this engine in 3 rail O scale.

Found this little dude when answering a different thread.  Puerto Rican narrow gauge.

Man, them warbonnet people are everywhere:

Also found this interesting, apparently home built little spud on the Northeast Railfan site:

Rusty

Finally found after looking for 26 years! Weaver's USRA CGW 0-6-0. Only made 75. This one is 15th.

Murnane posted:

Great pictures Dave, I hope you don't wait up till I post Switcher Saturday each week, sometimes I sleep in a bit...

 

Anyone go to York and see or buy any neat Switchers?

I've been meaning to talk to you about that.......

did someone say center cab?

I caught this one today on a walk in the South Bronx next to the old Ex-NYCentral MO tower. These days a GP35r is considered a switcher. 

And I'll throw in a Burro because they are self propelled and this one has his own Gondola. 

Nice pictures Silver Lake...but C'mon, did you have to get that school in the picture with the Burro crane. That is Cardinal Hayes, the enemy of my high school (and all mankind) Mt. St. Michael. 

Tom

Hard to crop it out Tom. 

B&O Alco S2 #9033 at Cinninnati OH march 1975. Photographer: Ilkka Hovi

CGWforever posted:

Finally found after looking for 26 years! Weaver's USRA CGW 0-6-0. Only made 75. This one is 15th.

That thing is awesome, congrats on finding it, great switcher indeed!

Hello Tom ( P ) 

And Silver Lake

---- Silver Lake -- thanks for posting those photos --- I knew that area well over 40 years ago and passed it quite a lot ! 

---- Tom, that tall long light color building behind the yards looks like Bronx County PRISON - Detention Center -- which Prison was in the South Bronx I think.    OH NO... I just recall now -- I think that prison-detention center  was on River Avenue around E.157th Street --- just below the IRT Jerome "EL" Line Tunnel Portals at E. 159th Street.  Well, then,  that building behind the yards in those photo must be an ANNEX PRISON, heh -- to the other one.  Sure looks like a prison !!!  (heh, heh, heh)

Regards - Joe F

Switchers at York

As I strolled the halls I took note of switchers for sale, even though I wasn't looking for one. There were a reasonable number of Lionel postwar NW-2's available with more than a few reasonably priced from $75 - $150. On the more modern front I saw 3 or 4 of the Lionel S-2 Legacy switchers for sale in the $350 range. Also several K-Line A5 (?) around $325, which I thought seemed a bit on the high side. 

Switchers are out there, all you have to do is decide which one to bring home!

Joseph Frank posted:

Hello Tom ( P ) 

And Silver Lake

---- Silver Lake -- thanks for posting those photos --- I knew that area well over 40 years ago and passed it quite a lot ! 

---- Tom, that tall long light color building behind the yards looks like Bronx County PRISON - Detention Center -- which Prison was in the South Bronx I think.    OH NO... I just recall now -- I think that prison-detention center  was on River Avenue around E.157th Street --- just below the IRT Jerome "EL" Line Tunnel Portals at E. 159th Street.  Well, then,  that building behind the yards in those photo must be an ANNEX PRISON, heh -- to the other one.  Sure looks like a prison !!!  (heh, heh, heh)

Regards - Joe F

Joseph,

  You are wise beyond your years, my friend! Obviously, it must be that quality high school education you earned years ago. 

 Tom

Great photos and information everybody! Silver Lake,  I love those Ford center cab switchers made by GE.  Very stylish little locos!  I wish one or more of the O gauge manufactures ( importers ? ) would make some for all us switcher fans!  Here are a couple vids from the FSJR. I apologize if they are repeats. I

Great posts again this week, I always enjoy Switcher Saturday. FrankTrain's post of a Lionel 625 44 ton switcher (often criticized as way out of scale) and SilverLake's post of the 130 ton switchers could be interpreted as there truly is a prototype for everything! Now when I look at a Lionel 44 ton switcher I will see a much closer to scale 130 ton switcher. I think I will have to add 1 or 2 of those Lionel switchers to my collection.

Have fun!

Mike M.