Switcher Saturday: 2016-Feb-13

The prototype inspiration for Athearn's old HO Li'l monster?

Rusty

Yay! Sw Sat is on!

This week I am posting some pics of switchers on my old layout. I am slowly getting enough track and planning a new layout in a larger spot. Some of these may be old reposts from past Sw Sats sorry for that.

Here is my Williams NW2

Here is my K-line Porter

Here is an old Karl Bub German engine

Here is my MTH RS3 shell on Lionel running gear.

My RMT S4

My K-line Plymouth

my Williams 44tonner

Here is a before and after I repainted my junker Lionel 520

Here are some overall views of my tiny layout after I had started taking it apart for the move. You get a sence of how small my layout was. The center was the opening in an O-31 oval. The shelves used to have all of my rolling stock storage. The lowest shelf I claimed was the mainline at an elevated passenger station so I could leave trains there.

Here you get an idea of the track layout there was a plug in curve that connected the left and right track to make a loop. So next time you guys complain about lack of space for a layout this was my layout in a walk in closet / hallway in Manhattan NYC. It is possible to do a lot in a tiny space. In a way it forces some creativity. I'm a big passenger train fan but my spacereally only allowed a little switching layout. 

I had a drop in curve to allow loop running but it was such a tight spot with it in that I usually just left it off and with bumpers in place I just ran this layout as a switching layout. In places it was so tight I hand threw turnouts because the switch machines took up too much space. The run around track with the spur inside was tricky. It looked better with a building flat there.  The whole thing was really only suited to one switcher. I liked running the tiny Plymouth with much bigger more scale sized cars.

wow Silver, you had a lot in that closet. beats not having a layout at all. I'm liking that Karl Bulb.

Rich thanks for sharing that bashed switcher, I hadn't seen that. got that saved for future use!and obvisiouly it sold for that much because of the Belpaire firebox....

...return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear...

howard...

great Howard!

I put a new for me 0-8-0 through shakedown testing a few days ago with plans to display it in my office today.  I really like this locomotive as a conventional runner. I asked my 5 year old son what other cars he thought should go with the 0-8-0 in the display case.  His response, which surprised me, was the locomotive he received for Christmas plus a very specific list of cars that have been put away for over a month.  The bottom picture is what we wound up displaying.

I took a couple cheap Lionel Vulcan switchers & repainted them into my own fictitious rail line. The Allegheny & Connoquenessing Line (The A/C Line).

Dennis

2/19/16-Thanks all for the "like" postings.  Really appreciated.  It was a fun project on both.  Dennis

PRR LIMA HAMILTON #8945 2500HP TRANSFER DIESEL.

PRR C1

This is a modified Williams non-scale 44 tonner made to resemble a Niagara Junction GE E10 electric.

Birmingham Southern. I have an entire page of BS engines, So I'll post a few each week. I forgot I had these photos, they are from another forum I belong to that was doing an outside braced boxcar as a club car, so the photos are part of the research from that project.

Don

Contribution for the week...

Another pic of the unique CNJ freight terminal in the South Bronx......

Peter

Great pictures this week guys, thanks for posting and see you next week!

By the way, next week is our 1 year #Switcher Saturday anniversary (close enough), here's a link back to how we got started!

https://ogrforum.com/t...saturday-2015-feb-21

Best...Rich

Happy Switcher Saturday! Looks like I am the cabin car for the group again! I've been a little off for the last 2 weeks after going to the local ER for a kidney stone and bad muscle spasm. Still not up to full speed yet.

Tom

wow, take care of yourself Tom

Thanks Dave.

Tom

PS- I like that kitbashed loco that Rich posted above. That Belpaire firebox gives it some class! 

Hi Bob,

 Thanks for your thoughts and the great picture. I think this was my fourth bout with them. The second time that I had one was pretty funny. My wife had to drive me to the ER. As she was driving under the Old Put girder bridge on Yonkers Ave (Yonkers, NY), she was swerving right and left quite a bit to avoid some big potholes. By the time we got to the hospital, the stone was dislodged. I always tease her that it was her crazy driving that saved me. 

 Please contact me off the list if you have time. 

Tom

Hi guys - been away the weekend on work related travel.  Here is my contribution for this week .... a bit late but better late than never The bottom video has my new signal man operating boxcar just behind the calf. 

Great photos this week everyone!  I totally enjoyed them all!!  Thanks!

CNJ 3676 posted:

My contribution to this week's thread is dedicated to our Switcher Saturday brethren from Maryland.

The Canton Railroad is a switching and terminal railroad headquartered in Baltimore. Its origins go back to the early 20th Century when the Canton Company, a marine terminal operator, built its own railroad to serve its facilities due to the reluctance of the B&O and PRR to extend their respective trackage into what was then a largely undeveloped area. The Canton Railroad began running in 1907. Due to the local nature of its operations, the road's roster has been dominated by switcher types but now also includes several road switchers in the form of rebuilt first generation EMD units.

Posted below are images are Canton Railroad locomotives wearing a variety of paint schemes. Of particular interest is Baldwin VO-1000 32. This locomotive was originally delivered to the Canton, then went to the Patapsco & Back Rivers, a Bethlehem Steel owned road, and subsequently returned to the CTN before retirement. In fact, we see it here still wearing Patapsco & Back Rivers livery with Canton lettering and numbering. Other than two VO-1000s, the Canton locomotive's roster has been dominated by General Motors models in the diesel era.

Bob

     

CNJ  - Many thanks for these photos of Canton Railroad switchers and for the historic information as well.  Much appreciated from this Maryland Switcher Saturday brother!