Switcher Saturday: 2018-Jan-06

Another early 1950s post war classic,

Santa Fe #616;

This one has a horn.

Here she is in action:

Pretty good switcher action in this one!

So You Want A Model Railroad? Joe McDoakes

Murnane posted:

Pretty good switcher action in this one!

So You Want A Model Railroad? Joe McDoakes

 

This is the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. I can't wait until my wife wakes up to show it to her.

Congratulations Rich on the big milestone.  Today's offering is an MTH Genset.  If it gets warm enough, I may even go out to the garage to run it!

I highly recommend playing the hilarious Joe McDoakes video on YouTube and on your TV screen so you can see the very funny detail, i'e. Olives unloaded from the operating cattle car onto the ladies' plates, and celery unloaded from the 164 operating log loader, and gravy dumped into the ladies laps from the coal dump cars!

By the way, when I showed it to my wife, she smiled a little, but did not laugh. It was a little to close to home for her to laugh!

Rich,

Glad to see the progress on your new layout.

Two-foot narrow-gauge 0-4-0 steam locomotive #11 was photographed at the Amherst Railway Society Big Railroad Hobby Show in West Springfield, Massachusetts on Saturday, January 28, 2017.

MELGAR

Happy SWSat Everyone!

A frigid 8 degrees this morning.

Rich is running trains! HOORAY! Congratulations on the milestone.

Arnold- Nice PW switcher

I think we all have a little Joe McDoakes in us don't we?

Locally the Plymouths have been pressed into service this week to make a few local runs. Several of the larger road switchers are out of service due to the cold and snow.  These little guys can pull their weight and then some.

Stay warm and have a nice weekend everyone!

Bob

RSJB18 posted:

Happy SWSat Everyone!

A frigid 8 degrees this morning.

Rich is running trains! HOORAY! Congratulations on the milestone.

Arnold- Nice PW switcher

I think we all have a little Joe McDoakes in us don't we?

Locally the Plymouths have been pressed into service this week to make a few local runs. Several of the larger road switchers are out of service due to the cold and snow.  These little guys can pull their weight and then some.

Stay warm and have a nice weekend everyone!

Bob

Love your Plymouth switchers, Bob. I will look for them at the next train show.

Was this little guy one of the first?

Lionel #41:

Arnold they are from K-line. Great detail and pulling power for a small engine. They both have smoke too but I didn't put them on for this video.

Here he is in action:

RSJB18 posted:

Arnold they are from K-line. Great detail and pulling power for a small engine. They both have smoke too but I didn't put them on for this video.

I feel like Joe McDoakes,  I've got to have one!

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

RSJB18 posted:

Happy SWSat Everyone!

A frigid 8 degrees this morning.

Rich is running trains! HOORAY! Congratulations on the milestone.

Arnold- Nice PW switcher

I think we all have a little Joe McDoakes in us don't we?

Locally the Plymouths have been pressed into service this week to make a few local runs. Several of the larger road switchers are out of service due to the cold and snow.  These little guys can pull their weight and then some.

Stay warm and have a nice weekend everyone!

Bob

 

Love your Plymouth switchers, Bob. I will look for them at the next train show.

Hey Arnold,

Someone has a PRR K-Line Plymouth on the FS forum here:  https://ogrforum.com/...r-die-cast-smoke-run  The price seems to be about what I paid for my B&O one.  I really like mine, especially with the little coal cars and I'll probably do some more pictures here of it soon in the coming weeks.

As for the Vulcan US Army #41 you posted, there's a nice writeup at this link which talks about all Lionel's small critters at this link:  http://www.tcaetrain.org/2d-ar...SWITCHER/index.shtml

I've seen a few pictures somewhere of someone's Lionel vulcan collection, which appears to be at least one of every Vulcan Lionel created.  If I had to choose between a K-Line Plymouth and a Lionel Vulcan, I'd put my dollar$ on the K-Line, they are awesome engines.

Rich

Happy Switcher Saturday everyone. Hope all of us in the cold tundra of the Northeast stay warm! 

My contribution this week is a comparison of B&O's Dockside switcher, four of which were built by Baldwin, originally B&O class C-16. Of the four, two would be reclassified as C-16a where they no longer were tank locomotives, instead the received slope-back tenders. #99 was one of the two to undergo being rebuilt. 

Here is #99 classified as class C-16 (tank engine, no tender). 

Here is #99, rebuilt/reclassified as class C-16a (no longer a tank engine/with tender). 

BONUS: 

C-16 builder's plate for one of the four:

Tom 

Heading to the culvert shops.

   Bill

Love the MA & PA

Chicago & Eastern Illinois NW2

Happy Switcher Saturday from Finland. This week i weathered my MTH Railking WP SW9 #606 and now she is a ready to the service.

Very nice weathering Johan

RSJB18 posted:

Arnold they are from K-line. Great detail and pulling power for a small engine. They both have smoke too but I didn't put them on for this video.

I like the fact that you said these K Line Plymouths are good pullers and have smoke.

a photo from the past...my #41...

Howard...here in "Deepfreeze, FL"... 

www.littleglitterhouses.com

MNCW posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday everyone. Hope all of us in the cold tundra of the Northeast stay warm! 

My contribution this week is a comparison of B&O's Dockside switcher, four of which were built by Baldwin, originally B&O class C-16. Of the four, two would be reclassified as C-16a where they no longer were tank locomotives, instead the received slope-back tenders. #99 was one of the two to undergo being rebuilt. 

Here is #99 classified as class C-16 (tank engine, no tender). 

Here is #99, rebuilt/reclassified as class C-16a (no longer a tank engine/with tender). 

BONUS: 

C-16 builder's plate for one of the four:

 

Tom 

Gorgeous!

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Here he is in action:

Now that makes much more sense than having only one Cop & Hobo boxcar.  

RSJB18 posted:

Very nice weathering Johan

RSJB18: Thank you very much. 

Johan

Murnane posted:

 Happy New Year!!!!

It's #SwitcherSaturday time!!!!

This week I've got some exciting news, I'm running trains on the new home layout!
It's still a mess, expecially the yard, and my "to-do" list is bigger than my "done" list, but hey - I'm running trains!

 

 

lookin good Rich!!

Tom I never knew they converted tank engines. Thanks!

1662 moving my new to me 809 Dump Car to the yard

Bessemer #211 unknown date and location

B&LE #227 at Greenville,Pa in 1958

Bessemer #234 unknown date and location

Here's a little re-branded switcher by my son-in-law. He works for Case/New Holland and made me stickers to change the names.

Here's a better view of the engine & caboose.

MTH USRA 0-6-0 Santa Fe Switcher

K-Line PRR A5 rounding the bend.

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Here she is in action:

Very nice Arnold!!  I have the exact same switcher in Santa Fe too.  Great looking layout you have!

sawdust43 posted:

a photo from the past...my #41...

Howard...here in "Deepfreeze, FL"... 

www.littleglitterhouses.com

Could be yet another beautiful model railroad postcard.

Yay! SWSat is on!

I am recovering from what I am going to call the flu and have been keeping odd hours and thoughts. I almost forgot what day it was. 

Rich Congratulations on the big layout step. It looks great. You will win the race on layout completion. 

This week I am posting some old pics of my Kline Porters. Everyone else was showing off thiers so I'll go with the flow. 

Tom I was thinking about tanks that have been converted to tender engines and I realized that I used to ride behind one frequently. My son was born in San Diego CA. North of the city is another smaller inland city called Poway. Poway has a small park that has a full loop of 42 inch gauge track and they have a 1907 0-4-0 Baldwin that was built as a 0-4-0T oil fired saddle tanker for a concrete factory in northern CA. The park runs the steamer and both a cable car and trolley car twice around the loop for a dollar. It was a nice way to spend a weekend with young kids. I once even hired a private train for $20 for his birthday. I have had a few cab rides in the little guy. For scale the first pic on the far left is the end of an SP copula caboose like Lionel used in postwar sets.

Have a great weekend guys. 

briansilvermustang posted:

                               some "street" Switcher Saturday...

Great pictures, Brian, of the real thing.

My dream switcher would be a Baltimore and Ohio blue 44 ton center cab diesel, modern with heft and great pulling power, and with smoke. My guess is that K Kine or MTH may have made it. Anyone have it? If so, would love to see puctures ir a video of it in action.

Those K Line Plymouths also look real nice.

Thanks, Patrick. I love the looks of your layout too.

We've had some switcher madness today!

Here's another early 1950s post war beauty, the Lionel # 6250 Seaboard:

Greetings SWSAT friends!!  Wonderful photos, information, and videos everyone!! 

Rich congratulations on having  driven the golden spike!   Your layout looks like great fun!  Enjoy to the max!!

Tom - thanks for posting the before and after shots of the B&O C-16/C16a.  Very informative!! 

Brian - I love those street running photos!!

Johann - WOW!  Very nice weathering job on the SW-9!! 

RSJB 18 - I love those Plymouths!! 

Here is my WbB 44 tonner out and about on the Free State Junction Railway in lower Patsburg, Md.  ( where it's the only town in Maryland that is well above 10 degrees todays.  That's why an ice cream shipment came into the team track  ( btw - the Ellicott Brothers reffer is "THE" MTH prototype .... which is the first EB reffer made )  Also a shot of a B&O GP9 heading up a local freight.  Have a wonderfully creative and fun week!! 

Thanks Patrick