Switcher Saturday: 2018-Jan-27

Happy Switcher Saturday to all. Nice steam switchers Rich. Have a Beer & Run Trains sound very relaxing . This Saturday i post some pics of my WP SW9 #606 at Shark Bay R.R.

Happy Switcher Saturday everyone!

Yes, Rich I agree this was a long week. 

My contribution today is a table full of my prewar steam switchers. From left to right, #231, #230, #233 and #232. I think it was Rod Stewart who sang, Every Switcher Tells a Story. Oh, maybe the title is a bit off. By the way, you can't have enough spare couplers! 

#231- Bought on eBay, it was shown on a table of multiple assorted train parts with the boiler shell off and its wiring askew. It did not look promising as far as it working. My friend Bill and I got it running in one afternoon. The tender that the seller had for this locomotive was not the matching 2231B or T, instead it was a 2231T for a #231, but that is fine by me. The cab step on the engineer’s side was broken off (common on these switchers). I rebuilt a replacement step out of copper and JB Weld. JB Weld also needed for one of my many marker light repairs (both were missing, common for these locomotives). This was my second to last, most recently purchased prewar steam switcher, one that really was originally a "Basket case." 

#227- (not seen in picture)- Speaking of "Basket cases...", I created a whole thread for this one...

https://ogrforum.com/...rewar-steam-switcher

This was my most recently purchased Lionel prewar steam switcher and quite a challenge.

#230- Bought from a train store in nearby White Plains, built by Lionel in 1939 only. Another missing cab step, this one on the fireman’s side. The headlight frame was broken. My friend Bill and I repaired it with Bondo. It came without a tender, but another friend who repaired trains at the store later found a shell and I was able to build a bell tender from individual parts, mostly from Jeff Kane, The Train Tender.

#233-A few years ago, I picked this loco and matching tender up on a day I got out of work early for a snowstorm that was on its way…I was supposed to pick it up the following day at the Train Collectors Warehouse. Father and son owners Ed and Doug Prendeville were very nice and probably thought I was a bit crazy to be out in a blizzard, coming a day early…but they were open and did not seem to be in any rush to close. So, I figured it would be a half-hour trip to New Jersey and my wife, dog and I had plenty of time to get back in time. Didn’t figure on getting lost! I think that was the last time I was in New Jersey. Made it home safely, but I think it took more like 3 hours. The locomotive was in good condition, the tender not as much. As a result, I got them for a fair/decent price.

#232- Bought on eBay several years ago, the loco and matching bell tender. Built by Lionel in 1940-42. Fairly immaculate condition. Not much to tell, as luckily nothing was missing or broken.

All these locomotives are excellent runners. 

 Tom  

Interesting equipment.

There was discussion about moving this rail with the equipment shown. The upgrade was not a concern, the down to the Westland Shale Gas collection yard was.  The continuous rail pieces shown are about 1/4 mile, measured with my bike odometer.

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday to all. Nice steam switchers Rich. Have a Beer & Run Trains sound very relaxing . This Saturday i post some pics of my WP SW9 #606 at Shark Bay R.R.

 

@BAR GP7 #63 - thank you Johan very much, and as always I'm in awe of your weathering and ability to craft a nice story from your layout and pictures.  You are really very talented!

MIKE CT The hyrail crane is a Pettibone Speed Swing, handling the CWR (continuous welded rail) it's a very versatile piece of equipment.

Rusty

MNCW posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday everyone!

All these locomotives are excellent runners. 

 Tom  

Hey @PRR8976 Tom, the OCD in my is wondering why you chose the order of the engines, I would have to put them in # order, because I'm crazy like that!  Thanks as always for sharing.

Mike CT posted:

Interesting equipment.

There was discussion about moving this rail with the equipment shown. The upgrade was not a concern, the down to the Westland Shale Gas collection yard was.  The continuous rail pieces shown are about 1/4 mile, measured with my bike odometer.

@Mike CT - Hey Mike, those are interesting and I'm glad you posted them.  I need to dig up some pictures of work critters for this thread one of these weeks.  Thanks for the share and hope you are well...Rich

Bill T posted:

 

Hey @Bill T - I like that boxcar, and is that a BEEP I see?  Maybe someone can explain to me what's happening with that RMT company one of these days.  They had (have?) neat stuff, I recently traded my PRR BANG to someone here on the forum and now I get to see him posting pictures of it, pretty cool.  Thanks as always for posting!

Murnane posted:

MNCW posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday everyone!

All these locomotives are excellent runners. 

 Tom  

Hey @PRR8976 Tom, the OCD in my is wondering why you chose the order of the engines, I would have to put them in # order, because I'm crazy like that!  Thanks as always for sharing.

Ha! 

Rich, the order is based on their arrival. 

Thanks as always for hosting! 

Tom

Yay! SWSat is in the "on" position. We are off to a great start this weekend.

Glad to see your layout is up and running Rich. Johan I always enjoy a visit to Shark Bay. Tom I love the roster shot. A row of engines set up like this always makes me think of servicing and how I have always wanted to make a more permanant scene of engine servicing with an open smoke box and pulling out boiler tubes. I guess this would mean using a dummy engine. Great stuff guys.

This week I have a few images of some of the nice painted ads Tom Fawell made for EMD in the 1960s. I have always really liked the stylized quality of these. In old copys of Trains Magazine these were often centerfolds and the only full color pages in the whole magazine.

I have been working on the layout and it is all torn up so my switcher image is from the windowsill. This is a Marx switcher that many collectors refer to it as a 70 tonner but I think it looks more like a Lima 70 tonner rather than an GE. It built as a DC engine but it has been repowered with AC block from another Marx unit. There is a fair bit of work I still want to do on it like add a front coupler and make some openings for the windows.

Have a great weekend. 

Andy/SILVERLAKE, I'm familiar with those EMD renditions. I always enjoyed seeing them. Thanks for posting and for your comments. 

Tom 

switching the grain elevator.

                          Love the MA &PA  

Murnane posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday to all. Nice steam switchers Rich. Have a Beer & Run Trains sound very relaxing . This Saturday i post some pics of my WP SW9 #606 at Shark Bay R.R.

 

@BAR GP7 #63 - thank you Johan very much, and as always I'm in awe of your weathering and ability to craft a nice story from your layout and pictures.  You are really very talented!

Rich: Thank you very much. I always appreciate your comments. I waiting every week Switcher Saturday and this one is a really one of the my week top days. 

Johan

here's my family portrait.....

1879....a Craigslist find. Left the Lionel factory as a 1615, found with a gutted motor and missing parts. Thanks to a Prewar six drivered motor from Dennis Holler, and some advice from Tom Panettiere,it became a more realistic B6

my first switcher 1615,

my Prewar 1662

and the latest, 1656. It runs, and should be finished by now....but someone keeps finding other projects to bring home. And I haven't decided on some mods for it yet.

Silver Lake posted:

Yay! SWSat is in the "on" position. We are off to a great start this weekend.

Glad to see your layout is up and running Rich. Johan I always enjoy a visit to Shark Bay. Tom I love the roster shot. A row of engines set up like this always makes me think of servicing and how I have always wanted to make a more permanant scene of engine servicing with an open smoke box and pulling out boiler tubes. I guess this would mean using a dummy engine. Great stuff guys.

This week I have a few images of some of the nice painted ads Tom Fawell made for EMD in the 1960s. I have always really liked the stylized quality of these. In old copys of Trains Magazine these were often centerfolds and the only full color pages in the whole magazine.

I have been working on the layout and it is all torn up so my switcher image is from the windowsill. This is a Marx switcher that many collectors refer to it as a 70 tonner but I think it looks more like a Lima 70 tonner rather than an GE. It built as a DC engine but it has been repowered with AC block from another Marx unit. There is a fair bit of work I still want to do on it like add a front coupler and make some openings for the windows.

Have a great weekend. 

Andy/Silverlake: Thanks again. I just start weathering my Shark Bay R.R. Baldwin RF16 B -unit and maybe "Bruce" is soon a back in action.

Johan

Good morning fellow SWSAT friends!!   Wonderful posts guys!!  

Rich - You now how to bring a work week to a close!  Nothing like coming home on Friday night and running trains and having a nice brew!!.  I'll drink to that for sure!   Love the Pennsy O60 on the club layout too!! 

Johan - great scenes and your weathered SW9 looks terrific!!

Steamer - Your family portrait is amazing!!

Brain - Your NASA prototype NASA switchers are cool!!

RPMCobra - I love that Ma&Pa 0-6-0.  One of these days I'll find one at a train show and buy it for my railroad!

Keith - very nice Santa Fe switcher and grain el. scene!!

Andy - Those EMD illustrations look terrific!!  They have such a sleek look to them.  I find them most alluring to the eye!  

Bill T - Nice BNSF Beep!!

Mike CT - cool track laying equipment!!

Tom - great switcher line up for sure!!  I like the workman in front of the locos!

Back from repairs! B&O 0-4-0 #317, a Lion Chief Plus locomotive, is waiting with a work train on the home layout.

trumptrain posted:

Good morning fellow SWSAT friends!!   Wonderful posts guys!!  

Rich - You now how to bring a work week to a close!  Nothing like coming home on Friday night and running trains and having a nice brew!!.  I'll drink to that for sure!   Love the Pennsy O60 on the club layout too!! 

Johan - great scenes and your weathered SW9 looks terrific!!

Steamer - Your family portrait is amazing!!

Brain - Your NASA prototype NASA switchers are cool!!

RPMCobra - I love that Ma&Pa 0-6-0.  One of these days I'll find one at a train show and buy it for my railroad!

Keith - very nice Santa Fe switcher and grain el. scene!!

Andy - Those EMD illustrations look terrific!!  They have such a sleek look to them.  I find them most alluring to the eye!  

Bill T - Nice BNSF Beep!!

Mike CT - cool track laying equipment!!

Tom - great switcher line up for sure!!  I like the workman in front of the locos!

Patrick W: Thank you. 

Johan

Happy SWSat !

A quick post today, great pix everybody!

Putting the little guy to work pulling passenger cars. 

My new MTH Alco S2 in PRR livery....

Tom

Nothing new this week. Here’s one of my little favorites.

Just my one and only B&A 53..........again.

It almost ran me over while I was filming an ESE Hudson on hold for some reason. Maybe an issue at that dilapidated house?

trumptrain posted:

Good morning fellow SWSAT friends!!   Wonderful posts guys!!  

Rich - You now how to bring a work week to a close!  Nothing like coming home on Friday night and running trains and having a nice brew!!.  I'll drink to that for sure!   Love the Pennsy O60 on the club layout too!! 

Johan - great scenes and your weathered SW9 looks terrific!!

Steamer - Your family portrait is amazing!!

Brain - Your NASA prototype NASA switchers are cool!!

RPMCobra - I love that Ma&Pa 0-6-0.  One of these days I'll find one at a train show and buy it for my railroad!

Keith - very nice Santa Fe switcher and grain el. scene!!

Andy - Those EMD illustrations look terrific!!  They have such a sleek look to them.  I find them most alluring to the eye!  

Bill T - Nice BNSF Beep!!

Mike CT - cool track laying equipment!!

Tom - great switcher line up for sure!!  I like the workman in front of the locos!

Trumptrain love the MA & PA #70 use to see it making runs often near my home back in the day. Also like the Canton. 

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

trumptrain posted:

Good morning fellow SWSAT friends!!   Wonderful posts guys!!  

Rich - You now how to bring a work week to a close!  Nothing like coming home on Friday night and running trains and having a nice brew!!.  I'll drink to that for sure!   Love the Pennsy O60 on the club layout too!! 

Johan - great scenes and your weathered SW9 looks terrific!!

Steamer - Your family portrait is amazing!!

Brain - Your NASA prototype NASA switchers are cool!!

RPMCobra - I love that Ma&Pa 0-6-0.  One of these days I'll find one at a train show and buy it for my railroad!

Keith - very nice Santa Fe switcher and grain el. scene!!

Andy - Those EMD illustrations look terrific!!  They have such a sleek look to them.  I find them most alluring to the eye!  

Bill T - Nice BNSF Beep!!

Mike CT - cool track laying equipment!!

Tom - great switcher line up for sure!!  I like the workman in front of the locos!

Patrick W: Thank you. 

Johan

BAR GP7 #63 me finding MA & PA pieces its like finding hidden treasure  

Great stuff guys, thanks to everyone for another great Switcher Saturday!

briansilvermustang posted:

Very cool looking switchers, Brian.

Just checking in to today's SWSAT even though I have no pictures to share. Was at the Amherst Railway Society's Big-E train show in Springfield, MA. Had a great time, didn't spend too much money, and met some OGR Forum members for a group picture.

MELGAR

Switchers gettin' ready for heavy duty:

EMD SW1 on local industrial railroad/short line in alliance ohio today with Gavin Friess.

information from Brian Szemon
PTCX 90 was built as CBQ 9145 seen here switching in a closed off industrial railroad in Alliance, OH. The plant has no outside railroad acsess everything is trucked in and out. PTC Alliance is a global leader in the manufacturing and distribution of Drawn-Over-Mandrel Tubing (DOM), Electrical Resistance Welded Tubing (ERW), Cold Drawn Seamless Tubing (CDS), Chrome Plated Tubing and Bar, and Tubular and Bar Machined Components.

Brian Szemon photography page
https://www.facebook.com/sun.crazy.photographer/

Gavin Friess photography page
https://www.facebook.com/Gavin...aph-488370381556687/

   For more pictures https://www.facebook.com/newca...sts/1912565435723256