Switcher Saturday: 2018-December-08

Raritan River passing through on the Christmas Division...

A little "souvenir" from a trip in  your country, while visiting Scranton PA, I founded a very nice hobbyshop who had this special model made for the shop of the Lionel docksider with Lackawanna  stampings, so it returns to France with me..... nice little piece, and it was the last one. Scranton was a great place to visit.

Daniel

Yay! SWSat is on!

Hi Switcher Society! Thanks for running things this week Tom. We are off to a great start this week with some very nice posts. 

I ran trains last week  in the NYSME layout. Here are a few pics from there. It looks like they were taken from a drone  I have to reassure you this is the Oscale 2 rail layout   They are open again this weekend  if you are in Carlstadt NJ you should swing by.

Thanks and have a great weekend I can’t wait to see what you guys post. 

The Providence & Worcester Railroad was incorporated in 1844 and operates in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York. P&W GP38-2 #2007 was acquired new from EMD in November 1980. Until recently, I used to see P&W #2006 in New Haven almost every day, but it no longer visits here. That’s what made me purchase this MTH model of #2007. I like it so much that I have a model of P&W GP-40 #3001 on order. MTH made two cabooses in P&W livery but I haven’t been able to acquire either one.

MELGAR

For a big job, you need a heavy weight switcher like this Trainmaster to get the passenger cars out on the main line:

Dad's 8310 moving a boxcar full of car parts.

Happy SWSat!

Thanks again for being the pinch Yard Master again Tom

Great stuff so far everyone.

This week I have my new PRR B-6 switcher that I just received Thursday. Put it on the track this morning and gave it a short test. Needs to be serviced and lubed for sure. This is the Lionel 6-18000 version from 1989, the first with Railsounds. Been looking for one of these for a while.

Sorry Tom- it's not as old as yours

Bob

PS- I'm a tentative YES for White Plains tomorrow!

MELGAR posted:

The Providence & Worcester Railroad . MTH made two cabooses in P&W livery but I haven’t been able to acquire either one.

MELGAR

The P&W is one of my favorite RRs I have an MTH SD70 that I converted to 2 rail.  I have my eye on the GP40 as well. I found one of the Cabooses on EBay at a very good price because it was weathered. Probably more heavily than the real one has ever been. Maybe it was from the future. 

I am in the middle of conversation to 2 rail to match the SD. 

Good luck finding one Melgar. 

my Craigslist 1615 that I made into a 0-6-0

and my Prewar 1662, after it had a motor meltdown is getting the same treatment.

Great stuff everyone...keep it going. I need to get up and start doing other things, sadly...

FRENCHTRAINS/Daniel, When you were in Scranton, I hope you had time to visit Steamtown?

Tom

Happy Switcher Saturday To All. SP&S #600 Saturday steam switching.

MNCW posted:

Great stuff everyone...keep it going. I need to get up and start doing other things, sadly...

FRENCHTRAINS/Daniel, When you were in Scranton, I hope you had time to visit Steamtown?

Tom

Yes Tom, I was there after York show to visit Steamtown and the trolley museum. I had a great time with a train tour and also trolley tour. I spend a full day to visit that place and also the Anthracite coal museum. It was not enough time to see i will have to return.....

And in the yard was that nice little engine so that's why I bought the Lionel one...

Daniel

Silver Lake posted:

MELGAR posted:

 

 

 I found one of the Cabooses on EBay at a very good price because it was weathered. Probably more heavily than the real one has ever been. Maybe it was from the future. 

 

The customer requested it to be intentionally done that way. It was being modeled on a siding as ABANDONED and no longer in service, thus, the condition.

Does this Camelback qualify as a switcher?

I would think so.

 Good morning fellow SWSAT friends!!   Tom thanks for being at throttle this morning and getting us rolling!   I hope Rich a great time at the show!   I'm really enjoying looking at everyone's photos/videos and information this morning  Today I have a video of a Ma & Pa SW 1 rolling thru a grade crossing 

SIRT posted:

Silver Lake posted:

MELGAR posted:

 

 

 I found one of the Cabooses on EBay at a very good price because it was weathered. Probably more heavily than the real one has ever been. Maybe it was from the future. 

 

The customer requested it to be intentionally done that way. It was being modeled on a siding as ABANDONED and no longer in service, thus, the condition.

 

Ha ha.  So it is one of yours SIRT. I am honored to have one. I do admire  your work. Well you may be happy to know it is still in circulation. Once it gets new wheels and Kaydees it will be on the NYSME layout on my P&W train. 

          https://youtu.be/Jj2nc9XsOvc

I treated myself to a Lionel 6-11818 Mopar Parts switcher set. It was advertised as used but upon arrival it was new in box. Always a thrill to be the first to take something out of the box that was made in 1994.    Azgary

                      http://www.trainweb.org/highdesertrails/knor.html

RSJB18 posted:

Happy SWSat!

Thanks again for being the pinch Yard Master again Tom

Great stuff so far everyone.

This week I have my new PRR B-6 switcher that I just received Thursday. Put it on the track this morning and gave it a short test. Needs to be serviced and lubed for sure. This is the Lionel 6-18000 version from 1989, the first with Railsounds. Been looking for one of these for a while.

Sorry Tom- it's not as old as yours

Bob

PS- I'm a tentative YES for White Plains tomorrow!

That B6 is a nice engine and available at a good price considering what newer models go for. I picked one of these up last year myself. Enjoy!

Thanks Dave. I'm looking forward to running it once I finish servicing it. I run conventional so I don't need the modern electronics.

Bob

AZGARY posted:

I treated myself to a Lionel 6-11818 Mopar Parts switcher set. It was advertised as used but upon arrival it was new in box. Always a thrill to be the first to take something out of the box that was made in 1994.    Azgary

 

Gotta have a Plymouth to go with that Mopar set. Nice find Gary.

RSJB18 posted:

Happy SWSat!

Thanks again for being the pinch Yard Master again Tom

Great stuff so far everyone.

This week I have my new PRR B-6 switcher that I just received Thursday...

Sorry Tom- it's not as old as yours

Bob

PS- I'm a tentative YES for White Plains tomorrow!

Hi Bob,

   They are all "related" as yours was supposedly built using the original tooling. I have one, too. It's a very good switcher. 

Tom 

RSJB18 posted:

AZGARY posted:

I treated myself to a Lionel 6-11818 Mopar Parts switcher set. It was advertised as used but upon arrival it was new in box. Always a thrill to be the first to take something out of the box that was made in 1994.    Azgary

 

Gotta have a Plymouth to go with that Mopar set. Nice find Gary.

Thanks for the photo op idea. I've got that covered!

Great stuff this week guys, thank you all for posting and of course thank you Tom @PRR8976 for getting things rolling.

We had a really good show, my older daughter needed some community service hours so she tagged along on Saturday, here's a picture of us in front of my new module.

See you guys next week.  Ho Ho Ho...Rich