Switcher Saturday: 2017-Aug-26

Happy Switcher Saturday everyone. I'm headed off to work so I'll check back later. Here's a picture of my MTH A5 under steam.  

Tom 

The CBS Railroad #1455 crew is adding a car of steel H beams to CBS's weekly unit steel train.

 Yay SWSat is on!

As usual we are off to a good start this week. Tom P. I think that is the first engine of yours I have seen that is not a B6 or Lionel Variant of one. 

This week I am posting a comparison of my K-Line Porter and Bachmann Porter. I know it is not a fair comparison because the Bachmann Spectrum engine is On30 narrow gauge and the K-line is full O gauge but I would argue actually a large scale but narrow gauge in that scale. It really does seem that the K-line engine is a narrow gauge engine that was upscaled until the wheels met full gauge. 

These small Porters really are one of my favorite steam engine designs. They are so basic they seem like Model Ts. 

They are both nice little well detailed engines. The K-line came with those Scale Kaydees so it looks even more like the narrow gauge one. Also for some reason the K-line engine has the builders plate attached to the water tank instead of the boiler it seems like an odd choice but really is the main visual difference.

Have a great weekend guys. 

how is this for a switching engine....... 

http://www.mendotraintony.com/...spar-lumber-company/

Happy SWSAT Everyone!

Construction of the new engine yard continues on the RSJ&B this week. The storage shed is done and PRR 99 and ATSF 2174 are bringing in loads of materials for the fueling depot. The fuel tank order was just placed last night so the base needs to be built right quick!

Great post so far everyone! Taking our daughter back to College today. Can't believe Summer is almost over.

Bob

Happy Saturday Guys

Operations on the Rio Grande are picking up. 

very nice CHESSIEMD

Looking good everybody!  I'll find something to share later on today.

great photos everyone.  Here's a recent additionWBB from Trainland sale

PRR A5 #3891

PRSL B6 #6096

And here's some SD40's with smoke. They qualify as switchers right?

https://youtu.be/HrIkp5_ieUU

Happy SWSAT!!!  " Switchers parked for the weekend "Great photos and info everyone!   Have a wonderfully creative weekend!!

briansilvermustang posted:

very nice CHESSIEMD

Many thanks! Will probably create a new thread in the layouts forum so everyine can see the progress from start up to now. Amazing what a little time and creativity can produce. 

that would be great, can not wait to see it....very nice work.

  Done for the day. B&A #46 heading on to the turntable at West Mansfield.

The NYO&W....

....and, after being sold to the NYC when the O&W closed down....

Peter

Steve

On August 14, 2017,I visited Greenfield Village [aka Jakes house] in Dearborn Michigan.   As I approached the roundhouse where Jake [santafe158] was working this got my attention  for a Switcher Saturday post.   Azgary

With my son, January, 2017 at the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona Pennsylvania.

Back in Sept. 2009, I was in Ocean View, Delaware and stopped to get these pictures. My research said it was previously U.S. Navy #3 - 1943 Vulcan Iron Works.

Charlie

Well folks I didn't forget.  Here's the smallest switcher I own. This little guy is assembling a train for the big T-1 in the background. The yard crew calls this the Cracker Jack engine.  It got the nickname because someone joked they found it in a Cracker Jack box!

After seeing JHZ563's post, I realized I forgot my little WM switcher.

Great week everyone, here's one from the "archives"!  Enjoy the rest of the weekend...Rich

cpowell posted:

Back in Sept. 2009, I was in Ocean View, Delaware and stopped to get these pictures. My research said it was previously U.S. Navy #3 - 1943 Vulcan Iron Works.

Charlie

I know two of the guys who used to fire that engine.  One of them fired it on the Wilmington and Western, the other fired it on the Queen Anne's Railroad in Lewes, DE.

A PERPETUAL PARADE OF PLYMOUTH'S

Bob

RSJB18 posted:

A PERPETUAL PARADE OF PLYMOUTH'S

Bob

Hey wait a minute- that's not a Plymouth!!

jhz563 posted:

RSJB18 posted:

A PERPETUAL PARADE OF PLYMOUTH'S

Bob

Hey wait a minute- that's not a Plymouth!!

Yea I know but its close

RSJB18 posted:

jhz563 posted:

RSJB18 posted:

A PERPETUAL PARADE OF PLYMOUTH'S

Bob

Hey wait a minute- that's not a Plymouth!!

Yea I know but its close

Works for me

I'm always almost late!  Here's one.  MTH PS-2.

AZGARY posted:

On August 14, 2017,I visited Greenfield Village [aka Jakes house] in Dearborn Michigan.   As I approached the roundhouse where Jake [santafe158] was working this got my attention  for a Switcher Saturday post.   Azgary

That's our 1927 Plymouth gasoline powered locomotive.  I believe it weighs somewhere between 12 and 15 tons, but I can never keep it straight.  It's got a 1000 cubic inch inline 6 cylinder gasoline engine built by Climax connected to a 4 speed transmission (chain drive) and it's a neat little engine to run.  We mainly use it as a shop switcher, but occasionally use it for maintenance work around the railroad.  It worked for a power plant in Detroit hauling coal before it arrived in Dearborn in the late 1970s.

Here it is around 1930 doing its original job.  The original bell, whistle and headlights were not on it when it arrived.  A couple years ago, a relative of the engineer that ran it at the power plant mentioned that they had been given to him upon retirement and they eventually donated them to us.  Unfortunately the original lights were lost, but we borrowed one from another railroad and had several new ones cast.  The bell cradle even had some of the original orange paint on it.