Switcher Saturday: 2016-Mar-19

I think I might like this picture better, not sure...

A few more BS locos.  Very interesting RR, and I noticed many different paint schemes. 

Don

It appears the second photo didn't upload properly, here it is again.

Here's N&W RS3 # 306 (in that beautiful Pevler Blue everybody loves ) setting out a carload of Home Brewing Company's Richbrau Beer at the downtown spur platform:

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More green for St Patrick's Day.....from the S scale New York Westchester & Boston RR

Peter

CNJ 3676 posted:

The prototype inspiration for Mike Caruso's EMD models:

Bob

Thanks for digging up that photo!  Very interesting to see the real thing.  The side frames on the trucks are different but otherwise it looks pretty close to the Rail King models.

Do 6 BEEP's count?

Dennis

have a great Saturday guys.

Happy Be - lated St. Patricks Day and Happy Switcher Saturday everyone!!  Rich I love your McSorleys Pub photo!  Mr. Bo kept his eye focused on 3/17 festivities in Patsburg 

Steamer posted:

have a great Saturday guys.

Did that engine just take the shed with it lol?

in an effort to cut costs, the LV attached their train sheds directly to the locomotives so as not to have to pay property taxes....

Good stuff as always folks!  Here are a few recent shots of my first (and only, so far) 3-rail-scaled locomotive, an MTH RailKing CNJ SW1...

This little guy was one of the two switchers on the Atticsville branch, but was recently sold to a forum member due to a touchy bridge rectifier. We will miss you , you tough little bugger.

Happy Switcher Saturday! Good pictures everyone. I took a new picture for this week's celebration...not that you can really tell because my current layout is an 027 circle on my workbench. 

Here is my reliable #227 idling while I snapped her picture. 

Hope those of you in the Northeast are ready for a late Winter/early Spring snow event.

Tom

CNJ #1601 posted:

Good stuff as always folks!  Here are a few recent shots of my first (and only, so far) 3-rail-scaled locomotive, an MTH RailKing CNJ SW1...

If the the workers were weathered, I would swear that it's an actual railroad. You've done a great job!

Don

For this weekend I bring you my very first locomotive, received as a First Communion present.  

This was originally a dc-only machine, requiring a new power supply when my collection grew.  At one point I decided it was time to make it run again so I installed a fresh motor and an electronic reverse board in the tender.  The tender has no power pick ups so it needed a few more wires to go back and forth.  This was also my very first loco improvement project so instead of a multi-connector cable I used four separate wires.  To me the wires look tender hoses so I like it, although it permanently fixes the tender to the engine.  Since I was recently running it again, it might be time for a second upgrade to include some directional lighting and a whistle.  I hope you like my trip down memory lane.

jhz563 posted:

For this weekend I bring you my very first locomotive, received as a First Communion present.  

This was originally a dc-only machine, requiring a new power supply when my collection grew.  At one point I decided it was time to make it run again so I installed a fresh motor and an electronic reverse board in the tender.  The tender has no power pick ups so it needed a few more wires to go back and forth.  This was also my very first loco improvement project so instead of a multi-connector cable I used four separate wires.  To me the wires look tender hoses so I like it, although it permanently fixes the tender to the engine.  Since I was recently running it again, it might be time for a second upgrade to include some directional lighting and a whistle.  I hope you like my trip down memory lane.

I had it's cousin, the 8625, as my first engine. It was a 0-4-0, as I got it used.

rail posted:

CNJ #1601 posted:

Good stuff as always folks!  Here are a few recent shots of my first (and only, so far) 3-rail-scaled locomotive, an MTH RailKing CNJ SW1...

If the the workers were weathered, I would swear that it's an actual railroad. You've done a great job!

Don

 

Thanks for the kind words, Don.  You're so right about weathering the figures.  Haven't tried it yet, but was thinking the same exact thing recently!

Took my son to visit the larger UP yard in town for his version of switcher Saturday.  Got to watch a slug assisting three switchers at the hump sorting cars.  A toddler watching tankers, hoppers and boxcar being sorted was pure amazement.

No pics though, too busy trying to wrangle.

Here is the B&O Docksider switching some US Army flat cars with loads.

 The brakeman rides the footboard. 

El Classico,

I can understand the 0-4-0 "conversion". As I was bringing it back to life from hard child hood play I also had to super glue the cylinder bottom back together so the lead truck would stay put.  Originally it came with sliding contacts that were pretty hammered.  I found a set of roller pick ups on a donner engine that snapped right in and reliability went way up.  It even started at a lower voltage with the rollers compared to the sliders!  

It's still a fun engine, even though it's vastly underweight compared to other engines it's size. 

This is the finished body shell of the switcher that will be taking the place of the brute above, building her from a Marx 490

Someone really should make this in "O"  

What are the things beside the  class lights on each side  ?,  They look like some sort of bulbs  (4)???

Hopefully someone can answer that, as I've not seen those before. They remind me of the Christmas tree starting lights at a drag strip. I also realized these aren't switchers, at least not by the six wheel trucks. 

Don

Happy SW Sat!

Yay! I'm not too late. Was doing some time traveling.

Here are some Switcher images from the Future that never really happened.

The GMD GMDH-1 and GMDH-3 projects of 1960 that never really got off the ground and produced in the numbers they wanted to do. I know at least one of each model has been preserved.

First the GMDH-1 with 600hp 

Now the GMDH-3 with 275hp and three axels

I put the likelihood of us getting these in O scale at about 0% but they do look crazy enough to have some appeal.

You guys did really great this weekend and got some real close to my heart switchers in the run. A day with both RF&P AND Washington and Old Dominion power wow a kid from Alexandria, VA is happy. 

rail posted:

Hopefully someone can answer that, as I've not seen those before. They remind me of the Christmas tree starting lights at a drag strip. I also realized these aren't switchers, at least not by the six wheel trucks. 

Don

Bob mentioned the Duluth Missabe & Iron Range...they had an interesting paint scheme, at least to me. The railroad was later merged into Wisconsin Central. 

As far as not switchers...649 is an ex-DM&IR EMD SD9, SD for "special duty." It depends how the railroad meant to use them...some railroads used these first generation diesels interchangeably with the 4 axled GP7's/GP9's. One of the differences was that SD models could be used on branch lines where light track/poor track were issues and the weight of the locomotive could be spread over 6 axles. I always liked the high short hood of the SD's. The Southern had nice looking ones, too.

Tom

Rich,

 Did I read between the lines that you are buying?  I'll be expecting a case from McSorley's Old Ale House to be delivered to my railroad's freight station, properly packed to avoid some rough switching which was common on my last layout. 

Tom 

Pittsburgh and Shawmut Russian Decapod.

Great Switcher Saturday this week all, sorry I haven't been chiming in very much, I've got a bad cold so I'm laying low.

Thanks to everyone for sharing and see you next week! 

Best...Rich

Rich, are you sure it's a cold?  Inhaling  the dust that has collected on the turkey wishbones hanging from McSorley's ceiling could cause respiratory distress.

Silver Lake posted:

Happy SW Sat!

Yay! I'm not too late. Was doing some time traveling.

Here are some Switcher images from the Future that never really happened.

The GMD GMDH-1 and GMDH-3 projects of 1960 that never really got off the ground and produced in the numbers they wanted to do. I know at least one of each model has been preserved.

 

Did Johnny Cash build those "one piece at a time"? looks like the front of a pickup, and the cab looks like one of those vans from the 60's! 

Don

There is currently another thread about saving your railroad junk...maybe the engineers at EMD had their own junk drawer that they had access to?

Tom 

Rich,

    Picked up this 2224 Switcher just a little while back, runs like a top!

PCRR/Dave

Here is a nice one. looks like a PRR caboose on the rear.

While not a switcher by definition, I'm sure this one did it's time switching cars in Michigan's Upper peninsula when it worked for the Calumet and Hecla Mining company.  It hauled copper ore from 1873 until sometime after the 1930's.  It's also one of the first articulated locomotive designs (if not the first) in the U.S.  It's definitely my favorite locomotive to run and very well suited for switching cars, which we do occasionally to prepare for special events.

Rich,

Hope this weekend's posts made you feel a little better. With great switcher pictures, how could you not???                                                         However, stop viewing and take your medicine! 

Tom