Switcher Saturday: 2017-Jan-28

A Baldwin VO1000 on the Santa Fe, better known as a "pipe organ"

Yay SWSat is On!

I posted a pic of a mogul last week with a slope back tender last week Rich. It was at the Patterson Museum was built at the Patterson Locomotive Works and had served the Pananma Canal Railroad. 

On smaller and short lines without turning facilities and a lot of reverse running the ability to see clearly was a real asset I'm sure. 

Here is a Kline  Plymouth in Ford paint ( I know Oxymoron) stopped at the yard office. 

Great pictures everyone. Happy Switcher Saturday everyone.

Rich, that yard is getting mighty crowded. probably time to increase those switching fees. 

Andy/Silver Lake, Nice little Plymouth switcher. 

Soo Nut, Nice switcher and detailed layout.

My contribution is my latest switcher, #227 going through final inspections by roundhouse foreman Andre "The Giant." The locomotive just need marker lights to be hung and then it will be released.

Tom 

Here we have a New York Central RS-3 from K-Line. When MDK introduced its model of this unit, we decided on the Central version as the RS-3 was the predominant diesel type used by the road in and around the New York City area. They worked out of Harmon, North White Plains and the various yards around the city in pretty much any role to which they could be assigned. In fact, there are many well known photos of them working passenger and freight trains on the Putnam Division.

Bob

Andre's brother Amos is supervising my 2026 project.

been under the weather this week, and 12 hour midnights so I haven't been downstairs, so I'll toss on some 1:1 engine pics.

ANd Rich looks like an expansion is in your future.

Great pics everyone,  we just got a new, used Jordan spreader so I used a U30, to shuttle it around the layout.  Nick T

Neat pictures being shared. This is an old photo but one that I like and thought I’d share again. Some day soon I hope to post a photo of my new Southern Pacific 0-6-0 passenger car switcher. This new locomotive is a 3rd Rail model. I’ve already paid for it but don’t yet have it as I chose to drive down to their office to pick it up. I want to see all the other neat locomotives that 3rd Rail has produced. So, maybe in the next month I’ll be able to post something new on my layout.

Happy Switcher Saturday to all. SP&S #600 continue switching.

picked up these two last week a great running 625 and a pwc navy switch which  is new,wish they would have remade the navy caboose also

Group shot, AF 429, Lionel 227, 203, 1662 (2), 561  The yard is ready to go!

great shot of a great looking layout Dennis

Alco T-6 Delaware Coastline Railroad

NYC ACTION ....................................

 X 27 #1282

I'm late the party today, I see the party is not over and its a great party too!!  Great photos and info everyone!  I continue to learn so much from all of you

Here's my B&O GP 9 mu'd with an  Alco FA2 B unit on the Free State Junction Railway pulling a transfer freight.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!

Was at the Amherst Railway Society Big Railroad Hobby Show in West Springfield, Massachusetts on Saturday. Had a great time! The most impressive part of the day was an operating two-foot narrow gauge 0-4-0 steam switcher #11. I believe this steamer had been at the Edaville Railroad in South Carver, Massachusetts but now has been returned to Maine. It is in like-new condition evidently having been restored. The whistle was ear-shattering. This is a very early locomotive. It has slide valves to admit the non-superheated steam to the cylinders. “Modern” steamers were superheated and had piston valves for steam admission. They were filming the locomotive for an advertisement for next year’s Amherst Show, which will be the 50^th.

 MELGAR

Happy SWSAT! Not much switching today but a busy day on the layout. Set up the all the wiring for the lighting on the layout. Set up my Lionel control tower and passenger station, and my MTH Elevated Gate tower.

Cleaned and greased my latest purchase- a K-line B&O Chessie S-2. Ran trains for about an hour. More photos next week.

Bob

Great posts everyone!

Bob

PS- Got all 3 of these for $60.00

Spent Saturday at The Big E so unable to post until today.  Here's an Akron, Canton & Youngstown RS-1 from Rail King.

OK So its Sunday.....

A short video of the S-2 hauling a couple of tankers. Cleaned out and re-greased the gears and she's good as new.

Awesome posts this week all, thanks for another fun Switcher Saturday!

Anyone want to suggest a topic or theme for next week?  Also, February 18th's Switcher Saturday will be our annual "anniversary" post (2 years of Switcher Saturday posts, our first one was here), so it'd be fun to do something special for that day, perhaps post your favorite picture or comment about your favorite memory or favorite week or something?  You've got a few weeks to think that one through and "get ready"!

Have a great Sunday and a great week ahead, "see" you next week...Rich

wow...can't believe this has been going for two years, and I missed that original thread.

Rich, Thanks so much for giving us a home to post our "switcher fixes" for the week. Looking back to your original post, I was glad to see I was one of the ones who had responded! 

One possible idea for February 18th:

• maybe suggesting that the posts be tied "loosely" to something railroad related happening anytime in February or mentioning some historic event that is tied to a real or fake railroad you like or model, like:

Today in History - February 28 | Library of Congress

Tom: 

Congratulations on your acquisition...certainly an appropriate purchase for such an ardent Pennsy fan!

Bob

Tom. Really great to meet you and shake the hand of a real friend I've meet through this weekly post. Thank you for the compliments. My daughter had a great time and she got some vintage Fisher Price circus animals for her "collection". I guess they could go on a circus train. 

I have been pouring over that track diagram booklet. It is very helpful with orientation of photos I have. That Pennsy sign you picked up is really great. I wonder which subway line platform it was on. 

I picked up a new little engine that will make an appearance here next Saturday. I wasn't looking for one it just found me and the price was right. 

Andy, It was nice meeting you and your daughter. Glad that you both found something to take home. I showed a picture of my sign to my friend Joe Frank who does some amazing work in terms of modeling the New York City transit system. This is what he said:

"So the Sign was an add on to the already existing IRT W. 34th St. signs -- so it had to be at least after 1910 or so -- re:  your PENN.  sign."

The Put track diagram book was put together by my wife, copied from the original New York Central Electric Zone and Putnam Division Diagrams. I had purchased them years ago from Fred Arone's Depot Attic in Dobbs Ferry, NY.  We sold out of all of the old copies, yesterday. In the Summer, I'll try to make new sets. They are very popular.

Tom