Switcher Saturday: 2018-Mar-03

                          Love the MA & PA NW2 #84.  I hope today to complete a transaction to aquire another MA & PA    switcher ? Hopefully I can update by the end of Switcher Saturday

Happy Switcher Saturday everyone.

Hope that none of you had damage with yesterday's Nor'Easter. My wife and I are currently blocked in on our dead-end street by a big  Oak that fell. No damage to us and nobody hurt. 

My contribution are two shots of Michigan Verde Antique Marble Company locomotive #4. The company hauled marble that was noted for its color:

"Verde was originally discoverd by Julius Rope in the mid-1880's. They were found alongside the gold deposits at the Ropes Gold Mine in Ishpeming and quarried from 1888-1890. Verde is sought after because of its deep green color, its beautiful white webbing and its durability is used for counter-tops, flooring and decorative building stones. All slabs are coated with a polyurethane epoxy to give it a wet look and bring out the pattern!" 

Tom

On the same website, not necessarily for the same railroad, I found this interesting picture of railroad workers ranging from young to old. 

Here is a short video of my weathered N&W 0-8-0 moving some freight on my hi-line

My ACL SW8 and calf for Switcher Saturday. I have begun to catalog my engines and rolling stock by finding a photo of the actual prototype. Not easy to do, but it has been fun.

MNCW posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday everyone.

Hope that none of you had damage with yesterday's Nor'Easter. My wife and I are currently blocked in on our dead-end street by a big  Oak that fell. No damage to us and nobody hurt. 

My contribution are two shots of Michigan Verde Antique Marble Company locomotive #4. The company hauled marble that was noted for its color:

"Verde was originally discoverd by Julius Rope in the mid-1880's. They were found alongside the gold deposits at the Ropes Gold Mine in Ishpeming and quarried from 1888-1890. Verde is sought after because of its deep green color, its beautiful white webbing and its durability is used for counter-tops, flooring and decorative building stones. All slabs are coated with a polyurethane epoxy to give it a wet look and bring out the pattern!" 

Tom

On the same website, not necessarily for the same railroad, I found this interesting picture of railroad workers ranging from young to old. 

Glad to here all is well where you're located we experienced the same conditions here my daughter and grandsons had to spend the night and fortunately the power was on trains running.  

Gondolawillie posted:

My ACL SW8 and calf for Switcher Saturday. I have begun to catalog my engines and rolling stock by finding a photo of the actual prototype. Not easy to do, but it has been fun.

I've also collected the photos of my trains and recently purchased the catalogs that they originally appeared in.

That's a great idea about the catalogs. Now I'll have to scan images from the catalogs and add them to my collages.

Some of my all-time favorite photos from the past...

Now I have to go clean up my yard after yesterday's Nor'easter....

DaveP posted:

Some of my all-time favorite photos from the past...

Now I have to go clean up my yard after yesterday's Nor'easter....

I assume you will clean up your train yard first. LOL

Very nice photos, Dave.

Holy Smoke, see this TMCC smokin' D&H RS 11 diesel switcher hauling oil tankers across the George Washing Machine Bridge:

You might hear a bit of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite #1 playing in the background, though the diesel sounds pretty much drowned it out.

Yay! SWSat is flipped to the “on” position! 

Great pictures last week for the anniversary edition. Fun stuff.

As we head into the 4th year I was about to pull out a switcher to run around and decided to show the little switcher display on a shelf unit on the wall above my computer monitor. I find the shelf getting tossed at work and the spacing  was perfect for an older road unit or a few switchers.

Do you guys display your switchers , do they live on the layout or do they live in storage?

As you see I have a lot of WBB representation in this group as well as some K-line and even a ETS green tank. 

The UP 44 tonner on the top shelf is a model of the one real engine I have ever operated. It is in the collection of the RR Museum in Danbury CT. It is not in UP paint now but it is the same unit UP only had one 44 tonner. Two years ago I got about an hour and a half of operating run time on this unit in thier yard there pushing around a couple cabooses including  a Maine Central and a big modern CN one. It was a nice program they even issued me a facsimile of the original operating manual. When WBB made the engine I just had to get it. MTH also made it but two of the same unit is a bit much for me.

Have a great weekend Guys. I can’t wait to see what you post. 

Happy SWSat!

And so begins the 4th year of SWSat. Thanks again Rich for all you do for us crazy switcher guys.

No major damage here in central Long Island from the storm.  A few trees down and lots of limbs and branches. The coastlines took it pretty hard with storm surge flooding. Half my neighborhood lost power for several hours last night but not us.

Great posts everyone as always today.

This week the RSJ&B brought in another road switcher to handle some of the longer freight runs. ATSF # 8250, a GP-9 was just cleared for service by the engine shop. The engine came in with a motor in need of an overhaul.

An EMD GP9 is a four-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division in the United States, and General Motors Diesel in Canada between January, 1954, and August, 1963. US production ended in December, 1959, while an additional thirteen units were built in Canada, including the last two in August, 1963. Power was provided by an EMD 567C sixteen-cylinder engine which generated 1,750 horsepower (1.30 MW).^[1] This locomotive type was offered both with and without control cabs; locomotives built without control cabs were called GP9B locomotives. All GP9B locomotives were built in the United States between February, 1954, and December, 1959. A total of 3,441 units of this locomotive model were built for American railroads, with an additional 646 for Canadian railroads and 10 for Mexican railroads. 5 units were built for a railroad in Brazil, 4 units were built for a railroad in Peru and 6 units were built for a railroad in Venezuela. (courtesy Wikipedia)

The GP series of engines were built in response to ALCO's RS series which were dominating the market at the time. EMD used the chassis from the disappointing BL-2 ( a personal favorite), and came up with a narrow body design that allowed train crews to walk the entire length of the engine and provided greater visibility.

GP-7 demonstrator.

Have a great weekend.

Bob

Yes Andy- I swap out what I'm not running onto shelves. If I put everything I own on my small layout I wouldn't be able to run anything. I'm running all steam right now so the diesels are on the shelf.

Don't ask Brian to post anymore photos of his collection on shelves either.

wow...16 replies and it's not 9 o'clock yet. We got some wind and a bit of snow, but nothing major.

Burlington 0-6-0 #235 Denver 1932

CB&Q # 308

and #309

briansilvermustang posted:

    ?????..... yard goat...?

Which one has more horsepower???

So, I’m falling way behind here...    I kinda lean to Legacy engines, what are the top three(diesel or steam) I should keep an eye out for? 

https://imgur.com/gallery/eyIrR7L

Boston & Maine EMD GP7 #1563 was built in February 1952, one of 23 owned by the railroad. The GP7 had a 16-cylinder EMD 567B engine which developed 1500 horsepower and 61,500 pounds of tractive effort at a weight of 246,000 pounds. My model is an MTH Premier with PS-1 made around 2000.

MELGAR

Rusty

Happy Switcher Saturday to all. Coming soon on Shark Bay Railroad.

briansilvermustang posted:

The Red Lion station has a great model railroad layout inside if you're in the area. Plenty of MA & PA 0 gauge items. 

How about some RS3s on the High Line?

The High Line, now....last October.....

Peter

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday to all. Coming soon on Shark Bay Railroad.

 

Wow!! High hood Alco switcher! Nice! Who makes that in O scale? 

Color me totally Jealous. Those are definitely on my want list. Very nice.

On looking closer it looks done by hand. Did you do this yourself?

If so, what materials is made of? I am experimenting with cutting styrene in a computer guided die cutting machine. I am still very much on the learning curve side of things. 

Andy: Thanks again. The Alco HH660 has build my friend John. We use my old Lionel S2 trucks & electronic. It`s TMCC , sound has same than S2 but this is okay to me.

Johan

Silver Lake posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday to all. Coming soon on Shark Bay Railroad.

 

Wow!! High hood Alco switcher! Nice! Who makes that in O scale? 

Color me totally Jealous. Those are definitely on my want list. Very nice.

On looking closer it looks done by hand. Did you do this yourself?

If so, what materials is made of? I am experimenting with cutting styrene in a computer guided die cutting machine. I am still very much on the learning curve side of things. 

Andy: The material is a metal. Any name ideas? 

Johan

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Silver Lake posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday to all. Coming soon on Shark Bay Railroad.

 

Wow!! High hood Alco switcher! Nice! Who makes that in O scale? 

Color me totally Jealous. Those are definitely on my want list. Very nice.

On looking closer it looks done by hand. Did you do this yourself?

If so, what materials is made of? I am experimenting with cutting styrene in a computer guided die cutting machine. I am still very much on the learning curve side of things. 

Andy: The material is a metal. Any name ideas? 

Johan

Ha ha.  Im honored that 'BRUCE' made it. I have no more funny or insightful name offerings. At any rate it does look cool. 

Here's a New Haven EMD switcher working Hartford Yard...

MELGAR posted:

Boston & Maine EMD GP7 #1563 was built in February 1952, one of 23 owned by the railroad. The GP7 had a 16-cylinder EMD 567B engine which developed 1500 horsepower and 61,500 pounds of tractive effort at a weight of 246,000 pounds. My model is an MTH Premier with PS-1 made around 2000.

MELGAR

Gorgeous

New Haven EMD SW1200 #649 - model by Atlas O. Somewhere in New England.

MELGAR

Greeting SWSAT friends!!  Great photos and videos everyone!!  Most enjoyable

No new photos this week.  The wind took out the power last night ( back on now but no time to photograph in todays schedule ) so no chance to photograph any new switcher action. I'll let these repeats pinch hit for today.... and some I haven't posted before??.  

The Kennecott Copper switcher and gondola photos are a tribute to my late Uncle Leon, who passed away two weeks ago at age of almost 92.  For many years he was the traffic manager at Kennecott's Copper refinery in Curtis Bay, Md. just outside of Baltimore.  He played a large role in supporting my love of trains.  Since he dealt with many railroads, in his role of traffic manager, he always had great stories to tell of riding with the B&O switch crew at the plant .... dealing with lots of class one carriers back in the day ( 1950's - 1970s ).  He got my cousins, my brother  and me aboard a B&O GP 7 as it was switching cars onto the Kennecott pier .... he gave me my first authentic engineers hat ( New York Central System ) which he got from the NYC salesman with whose route he used in routing cars from the west, and he gave me an HO train set when I was 8 years old with a Union Pacific  EMD SW ( can't remember the model number )  switcher no less.  Plus he was a great source of entertainment at family events!  He could have easily been a stand up comic and made a career of it.  He last came to view my railroad about a year ago. Although I'm grateful for his presence in my life, he will be missed.     Have a great weekend everyone!! 

briansilvermustang posted:

Two New Haven ALCO S-2s - #0615 and #0617 - models by MTH.

         HEY, somebody stole my wheels...

                                     Yeah, but someone stole our TRUCKS !!!

That was soooooo creative and suuuuuuch a very bad visual pun!

Btw, my earlier switcher post was one of my custom paint adventures (originally cChicago Belt), as are several cars in the yard.

thanks for the “likes” everyone😉

Johan please tell John that is a great build.  As far as names since Bruce was the Great White shark in Finding Nemo, I looked up the other sharks names, the hammerhead was Anchor and the Mako was Chum.  That Alco looks more like a Hammerhead so I propose Anchor.

Awe Rats!

Is your name not Bruce?

Bruce

coach joe posted:

Johan please tell John that is a great build.  As far as names since Bruce was the Great White shark in Finding Nemo, I looked up the other sharks names, the hammerhead was Anchor and the Mako was Chum.  That Alco looks more like a Hammerhead so I propose Anchor.

COACH JOE: Thank you. I tell that, like a i have tell many times.  Anchor is a nice name. Let´s see  

Johan