Switcher Saturday: 2017-Nov-11

Discussion this week of the Russian Decapod, a very small decapod.

My new Williams GE 44 Tonner in PRR colors. One of the few diesels in my PRR collection...not very striking, rather drab but it runs nicely...

Tom

Central Railroad of New Jersey #107 by Atlas O.

MELGAR

Mike CT posted:

Discussion this week of the Russian Decapod, a very small decapod.

A beautiful Shawmut 2-10-0 went for a good price on eBay a couple weeks ago! I missed winning it because of a computer glitch...oh my aching heart! 

The PS&N is one of my top three favorite railroads and I saw this decapod and wanted it! I am green with envy! If you ever want to part with it, let me know. It looks great on your layout. Nice!

Tom

The switch crew got a break and are now finishing their checkers game.

Tom

Happy SS all.  Here's a Reading RS-3 from Rail King.

And a picture I found from the real world.  Not sure of the railroad, I just liked the switcher.

nice shots guys.

MELGAR posted:

Central Railroad of New Jersey #107 by Atlas O.

MELGAR

 

Nice, MELGAR!  Here's a photo of the "real" CNJ #107 (in the later "Miss Liberty" paint scheme) with my grandfather at the controls...

And here's my Weaver brass model of #107...

Yay! SWSat is on!

On this 99th anniversary of Armistice Day I am posting a few of my European  O scale Switchers. The lined green 0-4-0 was made in the 1930's German Karl Bub. Sometime before I got it it lost its tender and bell. It runs very well and has a cool plunger on top right behind the smoke stack that if you pull it up the engine reverses.

The green 0-4-0 side tank is Czech made in the early 2000's from ETS. 

Happy SWSat everyone and have a great cold weekend. 

Happy SWSat Everyone!

Happy Veterans Day to all who served- Thank you!!

Rich- good to see benches up already! Great switcher stuff everyone.

This week on the RSJ&B started poorly when a clumsy engineer knocked his 0-6-0 Docksider to the floor with a stray elbow. To say he was upset is an understatement. Well after a quick inspection I found nothing worse than a dislodged bell and a small chip on the cab roof. The fireman took a bit of a tumble too but he was checked out at the scene of the accident and went right back to work.

It must have landed flat on its side, not even a bent grab bar or side rod. These are tough little switchers. I'm happy to report that its back on the rails working the yards.

Bob

finally got to take 1656 for a quick run (quick because the drawbar was MIA when I bought the locomotive) and we all know you can't run a steamer without it's tender., or rods...

got some bugs to work out, bent wheel or axle. Nothing the shop can't handle.

Kansas City Southern 0-6-0 #82

 Shreveport, Louisiana 1925

# 83 Tiger, Missouri 8/35

Middletown & Hummelstown Railroad No. 1:

Former U.S. Army 7272 built 1941, World War II Veteran.  HAPPY VETERANS DAY!!!

Happy Veterans Day, Happy Switcher Saturday and Go Army, Beat Navy! 

My contribution is my prewar #231.

Tom 

I love the posts so far guys, I really do hope all of you who are Veterans have a great day, thank you so much for your service and sacrifice.

I spent my morning (after posting the SWSAT post) helping the Rappahannock Model Railroaders get the modular layout up and running at the Fredericksburg Virginia mall.  It was a good learning experience and I'm going to bring a train or two by to run at some point this weekend, you bet it's going to be a switcher.

I tried getting my Atlas O B&O SW900 running at the club layout the other day but the TMCC on it didn't "wake up" with their DCS systems, the engine looked "dead".  I brought it home and tried it out on a conventional loop and it ran like a champ.  I'll need to figure that one out I guess, I only have a few things which run in command (the SW900, a big C&O steamer, and the LionChief+ RS-3 via handheld device).

Great photos everyone!!  Glad to see your progress Rich!  Looks good!  

Happy Verterans Day and special thank you to all who served!  I played my trumpet this morning for a Veterans Day ceremony at our local cemetery.  It was a great honor for me to do this. 

Here are some photos, taken last evening, of switchers working in around ( figuratively and literally ) Patsburg this week..... Pennsy scale 44 ton ( by Williams ), C&O 0-8-0 ( Lionel ), Patapsco and Back Rivers VO 1000 ( MTH ), and a B&O Plymouth ( K line )

Have a fun and creative week everyone!!  

Steamer posted:

finally got to take 1656 for a quick run (quick because the drawbar was MIA when I bought the locomotive) and we all know you can't run a steamer without it's tender., or rods...

got some bugs to work out, bent wheel or axle. Nothing the shop can't handle.

 

Merely Details I say!!

Here’s on of my favorite local units, resting on it’s usually siding, taking in some fall color.

And in the Spirit of Veterans Day, lets not forget this one.

Yard action............

briansilvermustang posted:

                                           Happy Veterans Day !  to all.....

                                Thank you to everyone that served our Country !!!

 

Very cool nice tie in with veterans day

rpmcobra posted:

briansilvermustang posted:

                                           Happy Veterans Day !  to all.....

 

 

                    Thank you to everyone that served our Country !!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                              

 

Very cool nice tie in with veterans day

 

                thank you,  rpm cobra

To all who have or are serving

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!

saw this over on RPN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3X_o4pFZUQ