Switcher Saturday: 2017-Mar-11

one more for fun!

Here's something I picked up at the Big E Train Show back in January.

Yay SWSat is on!

We are off to a great start this week. I like that RS3 Rich. Does it have remote couplers? That is one of the best features on the LCPlus engines. I have been tempted by the cigar band RS3 in the small set that is out now but the couplers are not powered on that one. It is just LC I guess. Still thinking on it though.

This week I  am posting mostly pictures from my club the New York Society of Model Engineers in Carlstat, NJ. Today is the first day in three weekends of our Spring open house show. If you find yourself in the area swing by. 

A Yoder GE 70 tonner 

Some Lehigh Valley pups in mismatched paint schemes 

A nice FM 

This is an old non powered plastic kit Porter as a dropped center flatcar load.

Im always a sucker for C16 saddle tanks. This one is in club paint. 

Here are some 3 rail  K-line Plymouths on my Switch layout to contrast with this  1970's product Atlas Plymouth on the NYSME layout.

Noodle invasion..................

It may be SWSAT, but the big trains still have priority today. For now, my switch crew will just have to wait for the line to clear.

Some very nice photos of handsome trains posted again this week. On my layout, the sun has never set on the Southern Pacific Railroad. San Francisco painted lady No. 1277 was used by Espee to assemble the Coast Daylight and other passenger trains. On my Russian River Rapids Shortline Railroad, though, she pulls excursion trains to the delight of rail fans.

Bought this from forum member Barry ( PS-2 3v) to use as a donor for my very original MTH conventional H10-44 (MT 2075L).  Switched (pun  intended) the shell and head lights.

Probably take to the up and coming train show at the NCTM.  Or maybe just sell off the shell.

Happy SWSat Everyone!

No new work in the yards this week. Started a home improvement project so the trains are on the back burner for now

Didn't slow down my surfing of the auction sites though.   Found this nice little Lionel MPC 0-4-0 die-cast switcher for ONLY $25.00. Too good a deal to pass up. It needs a little TLC, the tether wire and the light in the tender are broken and the motor is missing a pick-up roller. I put it on the track and it runs well.

Added bonus is the PRR flag on it- since I have  a lot of Pensy power and rolling stock it will fit right in.
Here are a few photos from the auction site.

Bob

My Atlas O model of Union Pacific SW9 diesel switcher locomotive 1875 is shown below with a K-Line model of UP wood caboose 3592.

The Electro-Motive Division of General Motors produced 786 SW9 locomotives between 1951 and 1953. They were equipped with an EMD 567B 12-cylinder engine which developed 1200 horsepower.

The EMD SW switcher was one of the first locomotive models made by Atlas O. It was first offered in 2001 and has subsequently been offered in many road names. I think this model was produced some years after that. When I returned to O gauge railroading 20 years ago, I began to purchase locomotives and rolling stock from many railroads – I bought whatever looked good and was interesting. Eventually, for reasons of cost and space, I became more selective and now limit my buying to New Haven Railroad and Amtrak prototypes. So, this UP model has never been run but occupies a prominent position on the shelf over my workbench. The old K-line caboose is an excellent model, too.

Have a good Switcher Saturday.

MELGAR

Looks like the crew is about to get moving on their trip through the Cuyahoga Valley.

But not before B&O 8408 poses for a picture.

Happy SWSAT!

abbrail posted:

Looks like the crew is about to get moving on their trip through the Cuyahoga Valley.

But not before B&O 8408 poses for a picture.

Happy SWSAT!

Chessie!

Rich I don't trust those new fangled Diesels.....

Silver Lake I like that Porter....I did the same with this little guy that was my Uncle's

Bob great deal for $25...I woulda grabbed it too.

Dave, Timely post.

East meets west.

Pete

My new Williams NW-2. 

Here's a teaser for Rich. He's buying this little B & O Porter #16. (Minus the WM ore cars.)

Good morning fellow SWSAT fans!  I love all the photos and information that you have shared today!  WOW!!  

Here are some photos from the Free State Junction Railway in Patsburg, Md.   We have a Western Maryland BL2 ( No. 81 ) at the point of a WM two car passenger trains ( standard passenger train length on the WM ) and a Baltimore and Annapolis SW9 doing some switching lending a helping coupler to move/position the B&O big hook.  Have a wonderful and creative weekend everyone!!

Great posts everyone! 

Plaster's dry....back to work (

I'm late to the party this week due to work (a college open house). 

Here is my contribution, a beautiful B6sb #2015 operating in Queens, NY.  #2015 was built in 1924 (construction # 3844), by Juniata and scrapped in January 1950.  Rods down, coal in the tender...watch out for that LIRR third rail! 

Tom 

For today's pleasure the basement and carpet junction brings you a WBB GP-9, Norfolk Southern style.

We also bring a research project in exactly how long of a train will fit on the inner circle as currently laid out.  I think we hit the limit.  

No apoligies for the camera work as all footage is subject to a 2 yr conductor sitting on the engineer's lap��

Here is my offer,

 A Plymouth switcher on the job still at the Escanaba and Lake Superior Railroad yard in Crivitz WI..

MNCW posted:

I'm late to the party this week due to work (a college open house). 

Here is my contribution, a beautiful B6sb #2015 operating in Queens, NY.  #2015 was built in 1924 (construction # 3844), by Juniata and scrapped in January 1950.  Rods down, coal in the tender...watch out for that LIRR third rail! 

Tom 

 

26 is too young to be cut up.

Steamer posted:

MNCW posted:

I'm late to the party this week due to work (a college open house). 

Here is my contribution, a beautiful B6sb #2015 operating in Queens, NY.  #2015 was built in 1924 (construction # 3844), by Juniata and scrapped in January 1950.  Rods down, coal in the tender...watch out for that LIRR third rail! 

Tom 

 

26 is too young to be cut up.

Yes indeed! If I was alive (not born yet when it was scrapped) I would have given it a home, but I would need to add a few extra extensions to have it fit on my current workbench! 

Tom 

Here is why I'm running late this weekend. Tie replacement on the A/C.

In keeping with my there this month of remembering the 60th anniversary of the shut-down of the New York Ontario & Western on March 29th, here goes:

Peter

Putnam Division posted:

In keeping with my there this month of remembering the 60th anniversary of the shut-down of the New York Ontario & Western on March 29th, here goes:

 

Peter

What a classic shot.  Is that photo available in a larger resolution so it can be studied a bit closer?  It's so easy to forget just how much the railroad scene has changed until a photo like that one above pops up.

laming posted:

Putnam Division posted:

In keeping with my there this month of remembering the 60th anniversary of the shut-down of the New York Ontario & Western on March 29th, here goes:

 

Peter

What a classic shot.  Is that photo available in a larger resolution so it can be studied a bit closer?  It's so easy to forget just how much the railroad scene has changed until a photo like that one above pops up.

It's the best I got......I found it on the internet on one of my many "doodling quests" to search whatever I can find on the NYO&W. When I am "on call', you really can't do anything involved. So, I spend my time on the net searching history, etc.

Peter

Because one day a week of switchers is never enough...

Yesterday, we visited the Museum of Labor and Industry in Youngstown, OH. My three-year-old saw this on the museum's layout and immediately, with enthusiasm, said, "Switcher Saturday!"