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It's #SwitcherSaturday time!!!!

Lots of us out there love switchers (shifters, docksiders, yard goats, critters, etc.), so lets keep #SwitcherSaturday (a.k.a. SWSAT) rolling!

If you missed last week's SWSAT you should really go take a look, it was a ton of fun!
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This week at the Murnane house...
....NO SWITCHERS.... <<< the trains are still in boxes in the basement :-(
Though I hope to get some out later this weekend and/or this week and at least do something with them!

I hope everyone has a nice weekend and if you get a chance - post some switcher stuff here!


All the best...Rich Murnane

p.s. Miss the post on Saturday? NO BIG DEAL, just keep posting pictures of your favorites until the next #SwitcherSaturday

p.s.s.  A special thanks to you all for keeping the weekly topic "alive" while I've been moving!

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Though I have no trains running at the new house yet, I did get a nice email from MTH this morning highlighting this guy!   I kinda like it and have put it on my wish list!

Fairbanks Morse got into the locomotive business through submarine engines. FM's unique opposed-piston diesel engine powered about half the U.S. Navy's World War II submarine fleet and developed a great reputation for reliability; the adaptation to railroad equipment during and after the war seemed like a natural transition.

In the opposed-piston motor, each cylinder had a piston at either end and the combustion chamber in the middle. There were no valves or cylinder heads. Intake and exhaust occurred through holes in the cylinder walls. The upper and lower banks of pistons each powered a separate crankshaft, and the two crankshafts were linked together to power the locomotive. While this sounds like a complex way to build an engine, the OP diesel in fact had several advantages over a conventional motor: less moving parts, terrific acceleration, and about double the horsepower per cylinder.

FM had tooled up to produce its first diesel-electric, a 1000 hp switcher, when World War II intervened, and its entire production of OP engines was requisitioned for submarine service. The War Production Board allowed FM to build one prototype locomotive in 1944, and the H10-44 was born. With a high hood like all subsequent FM locomotives — to clear the tall OP motor — and styling polished by industrial designer Raymond Loewy of Pennsy GG1 fame, the muscular H10-44 made FM a new contender in the nascent diesel locomotive business. In the postwar market, with railroads clamoring for new power to replace their war-weary fleets, FM's plant worked at capacity filling H10-44 orders from a dozen Class 1 railroads and many short lines as well.

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Yay SWSat is on!

And Rich is back on point!

Welcome back I hope the move is going well. I am up in the Adirondacks for the week and only have a short post from my research archives. This image is one of the Solvay Processing steam switchers which ran steam well into the 60's. They had a big operation in upstate New York. Quite a few of thier engines ended up preserved in collections. 

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Have a great weekend guys.

 

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Since we started off today with the FM H10-44, here are a couple of photos of my Pennsy version (PRR Class FS10).  In the first photo, the FM is sharing the Diesel house with a Lima 2500 hp transfer unit (PRR Class LS25).

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Today's assignment is switching passenger head-end equipment.  The baggage/mail car at the Post Office will be switched into westbound Train 13.  My FM started out as an MTH Proto-1 loco and has been converted to TMCC and RailSounds.

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Rich, I have a Lionel FM H-16-44. The loco just exudes power. I love the way it just rumbles at idle. 

I've also been on a 'Jersey' kick acquiring rolling stock with a New Jersey industry or location prominently displayed. My latest is a WR Grace hopper by Atlas  

 

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B&O switch crew 2BL2 Hogger salutesWelcome back Rich!!!!  Happy SWSAT to everyone!! Here is a repeat from my archive.  " B&O and WM hoggers salute Rich's coming home!"  and a short video of Canton Railway SW 1500 with signal man box who is giving the 'all clear Rich is home' signal to everyone along the ROW.

I'm off to a music conference at SUNY Fredonia in western NY.   Have a great weekend everyone!!!!

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Rich, welcome back to our own Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler , a phrase some you older types (like me) may remember from the classic TV show "The Honeymooners" with Jackie Gleason. 

My contribution is from a few years ago after making some cosmetic repairs on my #231 prewar switcher, I took it "Al Fresco."

Three special notes:

MELGAR: I liked your photos. In one, I see a glimse of what looks like a very organized wiring set-up. Can you take another close-up of that?

Bob Bartizek: I always enjoy seeing your great modeling. 

BRIANSILVERMUSTANG: Your UP photos reminded me of a vintage box of Union Pacific slides I had (and still have) from the 1960-70's...one of my early interests in railroading, as I was going for my Boy Scout merit badge. 

Tom 

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RJR posted:

Back up in briansilvermustang's posts, there are 2 full-scale locos shown.  I'm wondering what they are.  One is a BNSF switcher #1815 with what appears to be a lower-than normal nose.  The other is a center cab UP #2005.

U P #2005 info......http://www.up.com/timeline/ind...et-switch-locomotive

BNSF #1815  a little info  http://rrpicturearchives.net/s...ture.aspx?id=1552448

http://www.greatnorthernempire...NDieselRosterGP9.htm

rebuilt from a wrecked locomotive....?

 

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MNCW posted:

Rich, welcome back to our own Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler , a phrase some you older types (like me) may remember from the classic TV show "The Honeymooners" with Jackie Gleason. 

My contribution is from a few years ago after making some cosmetic repairs on my #231 prewar switcher, I took it "Al Fresco."

Three special notes:

MELGAR: I liked your photos. In one, I see a glimse of what looks like a very organized wiring set-up. Can you take another close-up of that?

Bob Bartizek: I always enjoy seeing your great modeling. 

BRIANSILVERMUSTANG: Your UP photos reminded me of a vintage box of Union Pacific slides I had (and still have) from the 1960-70's...one of my early interests in railroading, as I was going for my Boy Scout merit badge. 

Tom 

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"One of these days Alice, to the Moon!"

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Rich, I have a Lionel FM H-16-44. The loco just exudes power. I love the way it just rumbles at idle. 

I've also been on a 'Jersey' kick acquiring rolling stock with a New Jersey industry or location prominently displayed. My latest is a WR Grace hopper by Atlas  

 

Dave, 

 

I love the NJ stuff too. I have three of the WR grace cars...Atlas is good about the local roads.

 

Check out the raritan river boxcars, Middletown and NJ boxcars, Edgar's clays, and a Graf tanker. 

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