Switcher Saturday: 2017-Oct-28

Here's one of my favorite recent acquisitions.... a pair of Atlas demonstrator units.   Have a good weekend!

Russian Decapod and an 0-6-0

Guest diesels on the layout.

My latest PW acquisition. Alaska RR 614 Switcher. In fabulous shape and runs great. A definite C7 or better.

I'm going to add the rolling stock that came with  the #1611 set from 1959.

Happy weekend to all. GBW Alco S2 #201 switching at near Port of Shark Bay.

8111 in Halloween cargo.

Top of the afternoon SWSAT friends!!  Rich your layout plan looks terrific!!  Looks like it will provide lots of fun once its up and running!  It's great you and your daughter built the center platform together! 

This photo features a York treasure .... my Williams by Bachman scale 44 tonner in Pennsylvania livery from Trainland in Orange Hall for $170 which is the best price I've seen on these puppies. The Pennsy had around 50 or so of these little locos if my memory serves me correctly.  

The Pennsy livery is in keeping with the theme of my layout, which features Maryland class one carriers and short line carriers of the post WW2 period.  This locomotive runs great has a great horn and bell which are not Williams signature True Blast.  It doesn't run as slow as I'd like but then again I didn't expect it to do so either.  

Sorry I don't have any Halloween train stuff, however, the ones I've seen from you guys look pretty darn cool!!  

Have a great rest of the weekend and a bewitching Halloween!!

My little Beep is hard at work today !

Happy SWSAT to all and to all a Happy Tummy...

The delivery arrived just in time for Halloween on the O&UP.  We watched the Charlie Brown Halloween last week, so I thought I would get out the Peanuts gang cars for a special delivery.

Enjoy!

Phil in Ohio

Happy SWSat!

im late posting because I went to the METCA/NYSME Train Show. I got no switchers but was sorely tempted. 

Here is a camel backed Goat pulling a 13 car scale California Zepher on the NYSME layout. Those Atlas trucks are so freerolling this engine was actually able to pull the whole train around the yard  

Hey Rich,

Will this work for a spooky switcher?

cpowell posted:

Hey Rich,

Will this work for a spooky switcher?

Hey Charlie, I was hoping someone out there would post this one, love it!

Thanks to all of you other guys who posted/etc. - have a good weekend and see you all next weekend...Rich

Murnane posted:

 It's #SwitcherSaturday time!!!!

Rich - at first glance I thought you sawed your daughter in half for Halloween!

A little tease of the Halloween layout, a little k-line switcher for scale.

Some images of my beloved short line the Raritan River Railroad.....

CAPROCK, TEXAS, 1959

Warren Whittington, the Foreman on Switch-101, the morning job, is being held captive at R.C. Junction, on the west leg of the wye, and he's not happy.  Warren and the boys were on their way to pull the tank car from F. E. Judie Oil Co., and they asked the Train Dispatcher to run them west on the main and let them back onto the freight bypass through the wye, so their engine would be turned properly for their next chore, spotting the freight house.  These were their "going home" moves at the end of their day, and the crew was looking forward to quitting an hour early.  But Ralph "one-Block" Archer, who had recently bumped onto the first trick DS desk, got nervous about possible delay to the CTX, and held the signal on them on the wye.  So here they sit, trapped by a red signal in front of them and another behind.  One-Block earned his name because of his abundance of caution in advancing trains.  On Timetable and Train Order districts, every crew expected another short running order at every station, and in CTC, One-Block would hold the home signal until they were close enough to see it change from red to green.  The only trains that were not subject to excessively cautious dispatching were the passenger trains, and, to an extent, the CTX and GFX, the two hot freight trains which pass through Caprock.

Warren is out walking off his frustration, chain smoking Camels and muttering vulgar names for Ralph "One-Block" Archer.  Oh . . . and the CTX?  It's still two sidings down the road and won't be here for another 20 minutes, plenty of time for the switcher to have gotten clear of the freight bypass into the oil track, coupled up to the tank car, and been ready to come out right behind the CTX.  In a few years, a singer named Freddy Fender will have a hit record in Texas, called "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights," and many Caprock railroaders will think of many wasted days and nights they spent trying to get over the road with old One Block dispatching.

Love the colors on these Mike!

Number 90 posted:

CAPROCK, TEXAS, 1959

Warren Whittington, the Foreman on Switch-101, the morning job, is being held captive at R.C. Junction, on the west leg of the wye, and he's not happy.  Warren and the boys were on their way to pull the tank car from F. E. Judie Oil Co., and they asked the Train Dispatcher to run them west on the main and let them back onto the freight bypass through the wye, so their engine would be turned properly for their next chore, spotting the freight house.  These were their "going home" moves at the end of their day, and the crew was looking forward to quitting an hour early.  But Ralph "one-Block" Archer, who had recently bumped onto the first trick DS desk, got nervous about possible delay to the CTX, and held the signal on them on the wye.  So here they sit, trapped by a red signal in front of them and another behind.  One-Block earned his name because of his abundance of caution in advancing trains.  On Timetable and Train Order districts, every crew expected another short running order at every station, and in CTC, One-Block would hold the home signal until they were close enough to see it change from red to green.  The only trains that were not subject to excessively cautious dispatching were the passenger trains, and, to an extent, the CTX and GFX, the two hot freight trains which pass through Caprock.

Warren is out walking off his frustration, chain smoking Camels and muttering vulgar names for Ralph "One-Block" Archer.  Oh . . . and the CTX?  It's still two sidings down the road and won't be here for another 20 minutes, plenty of time for the switcher to have gotten clear of the freight bypass into the oil track, coupled up to the tank car, and been ready to come out right behind the CTX.  In a few years, a singer named Freddy Fender will have a hit record in Texas, called "Wasted Days and Wasted Nights," and many Caprock railroaders will think of many wasted days and nights they spent trying to get over the road with old One Block dispatching.

Fantastic story!

Great job guys !