Switcher Saturday: 2016-Sept-10

Yay! SWSat is on!

I have a few pics of my BL 2 this morning on my switching shelf. 

one more pic and then I'm offline for a bit...

Weaver Pennsy C1 0-8-0  Upgraded to EOB speed control, electro-couplers added front and rear.  The weathering had been done when I purchased the model several years ago.   

Happy Switcher Saturday! 

Poor Rich and all that Justin Bieber music! I hope you get that well deserved nap.  

My contribution this week is a video that someone took of the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum back in 2014. It has footage of PRR B6sb #1670 and PRR non-switcher # G5s 5741. Not sure who took it but I enjoyed it and thank him/her for posting it. 

http://www.getlinkyoutube.com/watch?v=_vlLyZp8Y9M

I also threw in a photo of two (#231 to the left, #230 to the right) of my Lionel prewar switchers to balance things out.

Tom 

Get some sleep Rich. I had to quickly post and run out the door to register my kids for a sports thing that is only done in the most inefficient and humiliating way possible. So I get it too. 

Here are some pics from the NY Transit  Museum in Brooklyn. The O scale diorama used to be in the Smithsonian when I was a kid. It shows two 0-4-4 Forneys with thier short trains. 

And here are some nice switchers the steeple cab is particularly nice. 

Great stuff so far guys, if your interested I posted a non-switcher thread just a few minutes ago about Solari (analog) departure boards, link is here:  https://ogrforum.com/t...boards-solari-boards

Andy:

Thanks for posting your pictures taken at the transit museum. Is that yellow work train locomotive currently on display there?

Thanks,

Bob

Tom: 

Great stuff with your B6s as always!

Bob

CNJ 3676 posted:

Andy:

Thanks for posting your pictures taken at the transit museum. Is that yellow work train locomotive currently on display there?

Thanks,

Bob

I am not sure if it is currently. I was there last winter. They do rotate displays. It probably is there because it was all of the way at the end of the track. Behind the LI caboose and everything else on that side that gets less movement. This was literally the only angle I could get a shot because it is nearly off the platform and almost buried under old displays.  In the foreground you can see the hard rail keeping me on the platform.

The streamlined cowling over the hood was pretty unusual. 

GP35 #3031 is idling next to the furniture plant awaiting movement orders.

CNJ 3676 posted:

Tom: 

Great stuff with your B6s as always!

Bob

Bob,

 Thanks and I enjoyed your post of the unusual Soviet-bloc locomotive which seemed to me, like the railroad equivalent of the Yugo. Anyone remember the Yugo?

 Tom 

a house full of 13 year old girls....better you than me.. 

ChessieMD posted:

GP35 #3031 is idling next to the furniture plant awaiting movement orders.

ChessieMD is this a painting? It looks stylized somehow. 

I just think switcher Saturday is awesome! Here are a some pictures of my former O scale layout participants.The waterfront switching layout  had SW's, 44 tonners, and a boxcab. The layout was dismantled but future set up a big possibility. 

Leroof

Leroof,

 Very nice. Regarding the green structure (float bridge?), is that scratch built or if not who built that? 

 Along those lines, I found this LIRR Alco S1 accident along the waterfront.

http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/workingyard%20A.htm

Tom 

thanks. The float bridge is my first BIG scratch built experience.  Neville Rossiter in the premier issue of O scale trains magazine made one for his layout and discussed the construction methods. I embelished and enlarged his basic method. I may enter my construction photos in a different Post in the future.

I forgot to enter just a couple more photos.

in the photo of the" full float" look at the entrance of the bridge,  the switcher is seen having done the Slow meticulous job loading 15 pieces of rolling stock!

thanks. The float bridge is my first BIG scratch built experience.  Neville Rossiter in the premier issue of O scale trains magazine made one for his layout and discussed the construction methods. I embellished and enlarged his basic method. I may enter my construction photos in a different Post in the future.

I forgot to enter just a couple more photos.

in the photo of the" full float" look at the entrance of the bridge,  the switcher is seen having done the Slow meticulous job loading 15 pieces of rolling stock!

Happy Switcher Saturday to all. Nice pictures everyone. This week i post two pics. First one is my MTH Premier Bangor & Aroostook EMD BL2 #57 and the second one is my MTH Railking MILW ALCO RS1 #1677.

Silver Lake posted:

ChessieMD posted:

GP35 #3031 is idling next to the furniture plant awaiting movement orders.

ChessieMD is this a painting? It looks stylized somehow. 

Silver,

This is actually a photo taken this morning on the Rio Grande switching layout using my iPhone. I then ran the photo thru an app called Prisma. The app has two dozen or so artistic effects that I think adds a lot of character to the photo.  Enjoy!

ChessieMD posted:

Silver,

This is actually a photo taken this morning on the Rio Grande switching layout using my iPhone. I then ran the photo thru an app called Prisma. The app has two dozen or so artistic effects that I think adds a lot of character to the photo.  Enjoy!

 

 

 

I see. Very cool looking anyway. I was going to compliment your painting skills. You fooled me. 

Here are some paintings Tom Fawell did for EMD in the 60's/70's that would fit in. 

I Had some old Trains Magazines that had these as color inserts. I always liked them. I miss the old box art on Lionel set boxes too. 

MNCW posted:

Leroof,

 Very nice. Regarding the green structure (float bridge?), is that scratch built or if not who built that? 

 Along those lines, I found this LIRR Alco S1 accident along the waterfront.

http://www.trainsarefun.com/lirr/workingyard%20A.htm

Tom 

 

suppose the crew needed new shorts?

Happy Switcher Saturday everyone!  I'm on Marylands eastern shore and hopefully I can upload a photo or two from my cell phone. Fabulous photos and information everyone!!!

Steamer posted:

 

suppose the crew needed new shorts?

New shorts and a new switcher!

Tom