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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...
C&O #39 (Lionel 6-28662 0-4-0 "#39", circa ~2005) is on switching duty on itsy-bitsy-small my tabletop layout, pulling a new-to-me MTH flatcar hauling some neat old C&O rides!

C&O #39 [Lionel 6-28662 0-4-0

Plenty more pictures of this nice little engine at this link if you want to see them!


I hope everyone has a nice weekend and if you get a chance - please 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.  October already?????

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Yay! SWSat is on! And, it is a long weekend!

This week I am going to start off with a few images of a neat looking steamer that is part of a museum that is going to reopen this month after being closed for a few years. Canadian Museum of Science and Technology. 

It is a pretty great example of late Victorian, kind of excentric engine design. 

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Hi Rich & All,

  Happy Switcher Saturday!

  Not sure I ever mentioned...I have one of those C&O switchers. I bought it at a nearby Great American Train Store. It can be seen here performing some switching chores on my prior layout in Peekskill, NY. Also, if you look around the area of the "K" on the Chesapeake lettering on the tender, you can see my handmade switchstand and further down my "wharf" are 4 more awaiting assembly. I made them out of copper following the design of another OGR member, David Vergun. He doesn't seem to post much anymore, but I really liked his switchstand idea. 

Tom 

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Good morning fellow SWSAT friends!!!  Got to love those post war C&O  0-4-0 switchers Rich and Tom   Mike CT - great job putting the end cab switcher back together!   Andy - I love that CNR O-6-0 ... very unique design

This week I received from fellow forumite Don Jones, this beautiful Atlas O RS1 ( with TMCC ) in Washington Terminal livery number 63.  Don even included a photo of the prototype locomotive 63 working in the Ivy City coach yard in Washington DC.  This model has great sound!  Nothing like hearing the distinct sound of an ALCO diesel! The horn and bell sounds great!  AND ... it smokes too!  It doesn't spew smoke like the prototype ALCOs but I will take what I can get (after all its a Lionel smoke unit ).  

About 8 years ago I purchased a new ATLAS O WT RS 1 number 46 from MB Klien in Cockeysville, Md.  For some reason this loco turned out to be a "lemon" ( Klien's word ).  After sending it back to Atlas 4 times for warranty repairs ( during the first 3 months of ownership ) to no avail, Klein offered to give me my money back or a store credit.  This is when I purchased my Pennsy Aerotrain with the store credit.  I was, however, very bummed that ATLAS O could not get my WT engine to function correctly ( but hey ... I'll bet even Rolls Royce has an occasional lemon ) and have since had a deep yearning for  a WT RS1 in my fleet. Atlas only made a limited amount of WT RS 1s and they are hard to come by.   When I saw Don's post I immediately jumped on it ... and am so glad to have this engine on my roster.  

I used to see, almost daily,  the WT fleet of RS1s, end cabs, and GP7 on the service track and switching the AMTRAK fleet during  the late 1970s ( there were still some GG1s around back then too... and the engine terminal also included a roundhouse for WT locos ... later to be demolished by AMTRAK )  ,1980s and 90s as I'd drive into DC on New York Ave,  I always hoped the traffic would be backed up when I got to Ivy City so I would have time to check out the switcher action over at the engine terminal and coach yard.  I was probably the only person on NY Ave praying for the traffic to become worse than it already was. ( Btw - Traffic in and around DC at rush hour, or any hour for that matter, absolutely sucks! )  I still like to catch a glimpse of the AMTRAK locomotive fleet as I drive by the same location at Ivy City, however, with the absence of the Washington Terminal Company's switcher fleet, it just isn't the same.... for it's now sort of like drinking a flat Coca Cola ( at least to me ). The fizz is gone! 

I've also included some side by side photos of the WT RS1 with my B&O GP9 for it really was ALCO's RS series of locomotives that inspired the creation of EMD's GP series.  The rest as they say is history.   

This week marks the return of the FIZZ here on the Free State Junction Railway in Patsburg, Md., where he fall season is unfolding nicely.  Have a fun and creative weekend everyone!!IMG_3537IMG_3544IMG_3551IMG_3553IMG_3569IMG_3563IMG_3575IMG_3562IMG_3585IMG_3568IMG_3567IMG_3573IMG_3545IMG_3548IMG_3579IMG_3593IMG_3597IMG_3606IMG_3609IMG_3610IMG_3612IMG_3614IMG_3621IMG_3622IMG_3629IMG_3630IMG_3633IMG_3643

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When I was a young man I was a member of the Reading Society of Model Engineers.  The club is still quite active, and recently completed the long awaited upper loop for the 15" gauge track.  Congrats to anyone from the club who may read this. I am too far removed geographically to maintain a membership at this stage of life, but I do enjoy an occasional visit with my family.

One of the more unique pieces on the property is a compact switching loco originally used in industrial service and then several years at an amusement park before making its way to the RSME to serve as the maintenance locomotive. 

Some of you may remember an inexpensive Lionel loco from the early 90's.  I customized one of these in the basic image of RSME #10.  I hope you enjoy.

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briansilvermustang posted:

                                           here you go Dave.......

GM&O/SP, Meridian, Mississippi, 1958

Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad's most unusual diesel unit was the,

Ingalls 4S model, B-B switcher. In 1958, it worked briefly in Meridian, Mississippi

 

I really like the Ingalls 4S model, B-B switcher ugly but loveable.

Just like JHZ563 I too customized one of those early 90s Industrial Switcher Engines.  Lionel made it a Denver & Rio Grande and I turned it into another Indiana Harbor Belt like I did with the ATSF 0-4-0 I posted in last week's edition of SWSAT.IMG_0932IMG_0933Two switchers out of one set of Microscale decals.  I figured a lot of the roads I have ran through or connected to Chicago so IHB could switch most of them.  Here it is spotting an Allis Chalmers condenser on a siding at the Leming Compressed Gas Co.IMG_0929

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