Switcher Saturday: 2017-Feb-04

Yay SWSat is on!

We are off to a good start this week. I like the history dateline aspect that Tom raises. One of the interesting railroad events to me that happened Feb 3, 1973. On that date Providence And Worcester Railroad cancelled its 100 year lease to New Haven RR and removed itself from the Penn Central merger.

This week I am posting pics of a new switcher that itself may date to close to that feb 1973 date.  I got last Sunday at the White Plains Toy Train Show. It is a very clean MPC 0-4-0 in Santa Fe paint. I like the full rods and it seems nearly un run.  I have not cleaned it out to run it but the $30 price was right to repaint and test some weathering ideas without feeling like I'm out too much$$.

Since it is not really an accurate Pennsy model it may become some other road

Hey fellow SWSAT friends!  Here is one pic before I go out the door to the Great Scale Train Show in Timonium, Md.  Hopefully when I return, I'll take new photos and post them.  Also looking forward to next week's 2 year anniversary of SWSAT!!!  Kudos to rich for keeping this thread going

Atlas SW9's.  Been running these for a while, Hard to believe, new in the box, from Atlas, approaches $500.

11 X $470 = $5,170. + tax and shipping.   Then there is the (6) custom paints, repair and upgrade.  May be time to move on.

Mike CT. 

Happy SWSAT!

ATSF 2174 is moving some cars into the north yard. The work on the yard is progressing nicely.

PRR 2037 looking good under the lights.

Bob

Mike CT posted:

Atlas SW9's.  Been running these for a while, Hard to believe, new in the box, from Atlas, approaches $500.

11 X $470 = $5,170. + tax and shipping.   Then there is the (6) custom paints, repair and upgrade.  May be time to move on.

Mike CT. 

That's a nice collection Mike!

Silver Lake posted:

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This week I am posting pics of a new switcher that itself may date to close to that feb 1973 date.  I got last Sunday at the White Plains Toy Train Show. It is a very clean MPC 0-4-0 in Santa Fe paint. I like the full rods and it seems nearly un run.  I have not cleaned it out to run it but the $30 price was right to repaint and test some weathering ideas without feeling like I'm out too much$$.

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That's a great find Andy @Silver Lake!

trumptrain posted:

Hey fellow SWSAT friends!  Here is one pic before I go out the door to the Great Scale Train Show in Timonium, Md.  Hopefully when I return, I'll take new photos and post them.  Also looking forward to next week's 2 year anniversary of SWSAT!!!  Kudos to rich for keeping this thread going

Hey Pat @trumpettrain - great video, I forgot all about the show this weekend, but am planning on going to the one at the B&O Museum later this month - I hope you find some great things!

Mike CT posted:

Atlas SW9's.  Been running these for a while, Hard to believe, new in the box, from Atlas, approaches $500.

11 X $470 = $5,170. + tax and shipping.   Then there is the (6) custom paints, repair and upgrade.  May be time to move on.

Mike CT. 

Hey @Mike CT - it really is a fantastic collection!  I only have one Atlas engine but it's really nice, can't imagine having a whole yard full of them!

RSJB18 posted:

Happy SWSAT!

ATSF 2174 is moving some cars into the north yard. The work on the yard is progressing nicely.

PRR 2037 looking good under the lights.

Bob

Hey @RSJB18 Bob, I'm really enjoying the pictures of your layout and switchers, great job! 

Thanks Rich- don't know if I mentioned it here, but this is the first layout I have built since.....forever. I was an HO kid but always liked Lionel O gauge. Having a ball with the build. I just need more space

My daughter came home from college last night and saw the progress (lights, etc), and said "WOW this is so cool".

Bob

Thanks, all,  for the comments and likes.  There has to be one more Atlas SW9 out there, at a bargain price, with that ultimate beautiful paint job.

Best wishes all,

Mike CT.  

Got Gas?

Hey Pat, I believe I saw the reflection of flashing lights on the side of your train.  Was that a crossing flasher or a lighted emergency vehicle?

Sorry that I am late to the show...great pictures everyone!

Andy--what a bargain! Good luck and hope you get many years out of her. 

Rich--I liked your Prisma photo. I think you should go on tour as an artist!

Here is my 3rd most recently purchased locomotive, my #230. 

I took one of my existing photos and used Adobe Photoshop Express and used the "Silvered" effect. 

Tom 

Another Atlas switcher.

Good morning to the SWSAT people! Sorry I did not get to meet anyone at the Amherst Springfield show last weekend.

Boston & Maine Class H-2a #613 is a USRA copy 0-8-0 steam engine switcher built by ALCO Schenectady in September 1922 and scrapped in June 1952. The engine weighed 170,060 pounds, the tender 157,700 pounds for a total 327,760 pounds. The model is an MTH Railking with PS-2 which was shown in the 2001 Volume 1 catalog and priced at $399.95.

MELGAR

mike.caruso posted:

Another Atlas switcher.

Beautiful picture, Thanks Mike C.

It is interesting to note the evolution/and improvements of this model.

These SW9's were some of the first Atlas produced, 1999, with a Dallee control and sound system.  TAS (Train America Studios) came into the picture a few years later with TMCC and electro-couplers. TAS, in it's hay-day, did TMCC/sound/coupler upgrades to a lot of the early SW8/9's but it required new frames from Atlas.  I recently applied a few long winter hours to a like Pennsy model, now TMCC.   Though Atlas has produced the Pennsy SW9 a couple of times since the original.  May be even recently with ERR control.

A little LIRR steam action:

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

coach joe posted:

Hey Pat, I believe I saw the reflection of flashing lights on the side of your train.  Was that a crossing flasher or a lighted emergency vehicle?

Coach Joe - You have a good eye!  The flashing light is a welder's torch on my Lionel work caboose.  Thanks for noticing! 

Murnane posted:

trumptrain posted:

Hey fellow SWSAT friends!  Here is one pic before I go out the door to the Great Scale Train Show in Timonium, Md.  Hopefully when I return, I'll take new photos and post them.  Also looking forward to next week's 2 year anniversary of SWSAT!!!  Kudos to rich for keeping this thread going

Hey Pat @trumpettrain - great video, I forgot all about the show this weekend, but am planning on going to the one at the B&O Museum later this month - I hope you find some great things!

 

Hi Rich - I spent the entire day at the show.  I focused mostly small on scenery items and vehicles.  Bought a Weaver Great Northern boxcar.  I did have my eye out for a Baldwin AS 16 diesel switcher in B&O livery but did not see one ... and of course I'm still keeping an eye out for a Baltimore and Annapolis SW9 for you .... that one seems to be as rare as hens teeth.

I hope to catch the show at the B&O Museum as well ... depends on my work schedule that weekend. 

great prisma pic Rich....but that Marx signal is kinda creepy!

Silver Lake what a great deal!

Here are a few pictures from the layout

 Early in the morning the engine is just starting to work at  Conway yard.