Another "Switcher Saturday" note:  Lionel Tracks published the following this week, looks like we can all put our lunch money together to try to buy a real world switcher, no worries about where to put it, I'm sure my wife won't mind if it sits in our driveway ;-)

FOR THE TRAIN-LOVING MICHIGAN STATE FAN

University selling its switcher engine as power plant eliminates coal use

EMD SW-1400

Link 1: http://tracks.lionel.com/for-t...-michigan-state-fan/

Link 2: http://msusurplusstore.com/cat...ive-switcher-engine/

Rich, 

 Happy Switcher Saturday! Thanks for posting another week for your nutty friends. I see you were up early around 6am cleaning up things from last week (as I walked my dog). Looks like Sara is having some fun, nice that you share the hobby with her. 

My contribution for this week are my last 2 switcher purchases #231(on the left) along with a #230. Along with the #233, they were the hardest to find in some fairly affordable way.

Tom

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Great picture Tom!  

You too Mike, thanks for posting!

Bob,

 Very nice. Good looking little locos.

   Tom

Hey happy SWSat! 

We are off to a great start guys. Rich your daughter looks so proud of her layout. That is so great to see.

This week I was on a business trip to Portland Maine. On the waterfront is the Maine Narrow Gauge museum. One morning I woke up and went for an early exploring walk only the cars and deisels were out and the museum rides didn't start up until this weekend. So I missed it by two days oh well. To top it off my phone was not letting me take pics. 

Any way it was a fun trip and the deisels were quite interesting and I've never seen such small full sized equipment. Maine narrow gauge is 2 feet wide. I found some old images on line of the engines on site. 

I've always really liked this engine. I've seens images before it is a GE 23 Tonner with 4 axels and a narrow close clearance cab. It is really unusual looking. Now all of the deisels are in the black, white and red B&M/MC inspired switcher paint scheme. 

The big draw engines are the Forney steamers those I missed they were in the engine house.

There were a few other old critters out to view as well.

This bottom engine the #11 Porter is now in the Black, white and red switcher paint scheme. Model Power make (or made) a pretty close model of this engine that they are marketing as HO scale but it is way too over sized. As an O scale narrow gauge model it would work perfectly. Running on ON30 track it is very close to this engine.

Bob/CNJ 3676

Last Summer I made it out to the old Brush Terminal site a lot of which has become Brush Terminal park in Sunset Park Brooklyn. There are some left overs from Brush and the other Brooklyn switch RRs still around here.

Good morning switcher buds!  Happy SWSAT!!   Rich - I love Sara's trains!  Its great that you share your hobby with her Rich and the both of you get to hang out in the train world.   Be sure to wire up those lights for her .  If we pool our lunch money and purchase the Michigan State switcher and get to park it in your driveway ..... then your wife IS a! true saint!  I also love it that Sara runs her train at a prototypical speed! 

CNJ - I love those industrial switcher photos!  More ideas for the big 4 to model?!  Thanks!   

Tom - those old switchers are a great find!  Show us the photos once you have them restored!  

Mike C - I love the shot of your elevated Chessie switcher pulling some farm equipment. 

I'll get some photos up on this thread later today.  Have a great weekend everyone and also happy mothers days to all the mom's in your lives too!!

I was cleaning in My-Room this morning and the Yoder box was just there.  This was inspired from an image here recently.

Ron

Tom those B6s look great!

Silver Lake, that Plymouth looks like it has an early Hemi in it.

have a great weekend guys.

Here's my new addition. I have wanted one for a while but this one just called out to me. It is complete and clean but was the dreaded NOT TESTED option. So yesterday I figured what the heck, wheels move so I put it on the track  as is and turned it on.

Grrrrr and off she went!  Forward ,reverse and light all work. I am now cleaning and lubing.

First dispatch will be to take this box car back to Chesterfield Mi.          Azgary

CNJ 3676 posted:

Morning, all. For my installment this week, I present images of several of a group of seven 59 ton 300 horsepower locomotives built by General Electric and ingersoll-Rand for the Bush Terminal Railroad in Brooklyn, NY in 1931. 

For a switching locomotive, the design of this model is of great interest as it was neither a center or end cab unit. Rather, the cab was offset from the short hood end by approximately one-third. In this sense, the model was something of a preview of the road switcher design which would  come to dominate North American diesel locomotive design in the coming decades. These units provided sterling service with the last of them remaining in service until 1974. 

Bob

Well, I've gotta say, these sure look a LOT like RMT "Beebs," don't they?  

Andy/Silver Lake- Several years ago, I had a business trip in Portland, too. I was given a nice tour of the shop area and the shed where one engine was kept. I enjoyed my time there very much.

Dave/Steamer & Rich- Thanks for your comments. 

Patrick/Trumptrain- My version of restoration is probably different than most others. Nothing against others that feel differently, I generally have a rule of thumb that I don't repaint my locomotives (I never had one so bad that I thought it needed a full repaint). I look at the real Pennsy switchers for guidance and have seen many looking rather beaten up. I try to keep them as original as possible, which for the #231 meant reinforcing the pilot with copper and JB Weld. For the #230, my friend rebuilt the front headlight housing with Bondo and its boiler did need a small paint touch-up. Half of the time the (class) marker lights are missing like on #231 and needed replacement. Occasionally, the rear cab step of the loco has been sheared off. For those, I build new ones from copper and JB Weld, like on #231. Always something to keep busy on!

Tom 

AZGARY posted:

Here's my new addition. I have wanted one for a while but this one just called out to me. It is complete and clean but was the dreaded NOT TESTED option. So yesterday I figured what the heck, wheels move so I put it on the track  as is and turned it on.

Grrrrr and off she went!  Forward ,reverse and light all work. I am now cleaning and lubing.

First dispatch will be to take this box car back to Chesterfield Mi.          Azgary

 

I love the NW2 models. Been meaning to snag one myself, as my family all lives up in the area the DT&I used to serve.

Here is my son near a local switcher for us. An older GE on the Trash/work train. I think he wanted to climb in the cab. 

Hi guys!  Great photos!!  I'm back with some videos of the local switch job ( 0 - 8 - 0 ) in Patsburg. Also a Ma & Pa milk trains passes by pulled by an end cab switcher.  Have a wonderful weekend!

First is my sons Lionel 561 0-8-0 starter set engine.  I find that it is a nice one to run and smokes well.  Next up are my 1662's and a couple of overall shots with the last showing the 227 boiler front alongside a Williams K4.  By gosh, someday I hope I'll get this darn passenger station area finished!

AZGARY posted:

Here's my new addition. I have wanted one for a while but this one just called out to me. It is complete and clean but was the dreaded NOT TESTED option. So yesterday I figured what the heck, wheels move so I put it on the track  as is and turned it on.

Grrrrr and off she went!  Forward ,reverse and light all work. I am now cleaning and lubing.

First dispatch will be to take this box car back to Chesterfield Mi.          Azgary

 

This was my first Lionel engine, as my parents got me the switcher set in 1973.

"This was my first Lionel engine, as my parents got me the switcher set in 1973."

I also got that set, for Christmas. Beware the nylon gears!, Ran mine down to nubs.

Dennis and Mark Thank you for the reply's. Glad my new to me 8111 brought back good memories to you!   Azgary

Great pics everyone......Wow, Bob.......these are really neat!

Peter

Great pictures this week everyone!  Enjoy the day and don't forget to spoil the Moms!

I hope I haven't posted these before. A Lionel SW-1 that I've added pilots, Handrails and crew to.