Switcher Saturday: 2016-Oct-01

Another note!

The Lionel "Instagram" page posted this one earlier this week, I thought it would make good SwitcherSaturday material!

I had never heard the term before, pretty funny!

good to see you back Rich.

Thanks guys, it's good to be back too, though I did have fun!

Happy Switcher Saturday everyone and welcome back to work/fun Rich.

My contribution is LIRR Boxcab #401,which nicely comes with a story. The locomotive was put in service in 1926 and scrapped in June 1951. 

Tom 

I'd love to have a model of this battery-powered switcher(?):

I'm not even sure what these are, except the captions said "Battery-Electric".  I could scratchbuild the body, but am at a loss as to what to do about the wheels.

I believe they were used in a weapons/ammunition depot.

Happy SWSat!

Welcome back Rich! Sorry to hear about your problematic switch. 

I am traveling myself this week. I am posting some subway work train switchers I caught last week. 

CNJ 3676 posted:

. . . A favorite shortline of mine was the Niagara Junction Railway in Niagara Falls, NY. Into the 1970s, it remained an electric railroad with GE built steeple cabs providing the motive power. . .

Bob

Thanks for posting this, Bob.  The NJ was always of interest to me, although, living in the opposite quadrant of the USA, I never was able to make a visit and see it in action while the electrics were still running.  Those steeple cabs were particularly interesting, because --in spite of their steam locomotive-style headlights -- the locomotives were built in 1950, very late in the game for that type.  I would have liked to switch a couple of cuts of cars in one, to see what it was like.  I'll bet they were great for kicking cars and for making drops.

Silver Lake posted:

. . . I am posting some subway work train switchers I caught last week. 

Calling bluelinec4 . . . Ben, would you possibly sometimes run the switcher, or is that work assigned to another group?

LV 107 and SAL 1489 wait in the yard.

Great pics so far guys.  I took the kids to a church "yard sale"/"flea market" - tons of stuff but not a single train item to be found!

Here's another picture of #94 for your viewing pleasure...Rich

Picked up this picture at the PA. Railroad Museum in Strasburg 2 weeks ago.

Here are some photos that were sent to me from the Chief Mechanical Officer of Morristown & Erie (Greg Dodd) a while back. They show some really nice shots of SW900 #1 so it counts for switcher Saturday. 

The reason for not sleeping in on this rainy Saturday morning is because it's SWITCHER SATURDAY!!!  Switcher photos served up from the Free State Junction Railway today are in the flavor of B&O.  My new ( to me - bought at train show ) Plymouth switcher along with the Dockside, SW9, and GP9 all in B&O livery.  NOTE: I actually started  compiling my SWAT contribution early this morning but had several interruptions today.  So here it afternoon and I'm finally hitting the send button

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!!!!

D&H 65 posted:

Picked up this picture at the PA. Railroad Museum in Strasburg 2 weeks ago.

Hello D&H 65

Great photo !!!, is this engine in running condition ?

Tiffany

A new arrival.

Murnane posted:

Thanks guys, it's good to be back too, though I did have fun!

 

Hey Rich!  Welcome back!!  Is that an ALCO FA you are sitting in??

Hey Pat,

This is the "cab" of a FA-2 which sits in the "Oyster Bay Railroad Museum" yard (Long Island, NY).  This place is really close to my Dad's house where I grew up and they have a few items in their roster but not a whole lot "ready for primetime".  The website URL is: http://www.obrm.org/history/equipment-roster.php

Here are the details of the cab, which was fun to climb in and get a picture taken.

Murnane posted:

Another note!

The Lionel "Instagram" page posted this one earlier this week, I thought it would make good SwitcherSaturday material!

 

I had never heard the term before, pretty funny!

I wonder if they fly south for the winter?

Murnane posted:

Hey Pat,

This is the "cab" of a FA-2 which sits in the "Oyster Bay Railroad Museum" yard (Long Island, NY).  This place is really close to my Dad's house where I grew up and they have a few items in their roster but not a whole lot "ready for primetime".  The website URL is: http://www.obrm.org/history/equipment-roster.php

Here are the details of the cab, which was fun to climb in and get a picture taken.

CLASS: FA-2 CAB UNIT

The cab unit came from a former New Haven Railroad FA-2 diesel locomotive numbered 0402, built by the American Locomotive Company in 1947. In 1963, the New Haven traded in 0402 to Alco for the purchase of newer locomotives.

Alco cut off the head end of the locomotive and sold the cab unit to the LIRR for display at the 1964 World's Fair. The public was allowed to climb up into the cab and have their photos taken while looking out the engineer's window.

After the fair closed, the LIRR sold the cab unit to the Tanglewood Day Camp in Lynbrook, NY, where the unit was part of a children's playground. When the camp closed in 1988, the unit was made available to the Oyster Bay Railroad Museum.

Overall I'd suggest only stopping by the museum if you were in the area.  At some point in the future they may have their PRR #35 4-6-0 (10 wheeler) put together, but right now it's in pieces throughout the yard.  They also have a turntable which believe it or not they have a few pieces of equipment in front of so it was hard to really get a good look at it.  When I was a kid I remember climbing down into that turntable and picking the bottles/cans out for the 5 cent recyclying refund money, it was very much run down and I'm glad that some folks are getting it all cleaned up and presentable.

Best...Rich

Thanks for all the information Rich!!  I missed getting my photo sitting in the locomotive cab  back when I was at the NY Worlds Fair in 64.  Darn!!!

I'm glad you got to the museum and that things are moving in a positive direction their as well!

Welcome back to SWSAT!!