Switcher Saturday: 2018-Mar-31

Happy Switcher Saturday everyone and Happy Easter or Passover if you are celebrating. 

My photo is my #228 and a cabin car edited in Adobe Photoshop Express & viewed in black & white. 

Looks like the Easter Bunny might need a  heavier coat for Monday as more snow is in the weather forecast.  

Tom 

A good weekend to all.

B&M SW9 diesel switcher #1223 was released by Atlas O during the model’s first run around 1999. EMD built 786 SW9s between January 1951 and December 1953. They were powered by the 1.200 horsepower 567B V-12 engine.

MELGAR

just stumbled on this picture....

@PRR8976 - Looking good Tom!  I'm looking forward to seeing some track running through a cobblestone street soon!

@MELGAR - Those Boston & Maine switchers are growing on me, I might have to "extend" my roster by adding one or two sometime!  Great photo and engine!

@Bill T - looks like some great postwar fun you got rolling there!

Heading "offline" for a while, have a great day guys and thanks for sharing...Rich

Happy Switcher Saturday to all. Finally get ready my second Shark Bay Railroad engine what is Alco HH660 #150 "Anchor". Also the first Shark Bay flat car is a ready with a generator load. 

Yay! SWSat is flipped back in the "on "position!

Great start guys! 

Once again it is that time of year that I tell the tale of that time I was swept off the deck of the Trans-Pacific  ocean liner during a storm and my life boat ran aground in the fog on a small and very strange island. It was shaped like a vertical egg standing on end in the middle of the water. The islanders took me in and welcomed me touring me around the island. The appropriately named "Egg Island" supposedly the farthest outlier of the Easter Island Archipelago.

As far as I could tell based on thier dark teeth, the islanders subsisted nearly entirely on a diet of fish and the black jelly beans that they mined from the island itself. There was a small railroad that circumnavigated the island transporting the beans from the mine to waiting ships and commuters to the mine. It really was a facinating operation based on a real geologic anomaly. 

I took a ride back to the mainland on the first tramp steamer that came to take a load of the Jellybeans. I have not been able to return or even verify that Egg Island exists.

Happy Easter, Passover and April Fools.

Have a good one. 

"HOPPY" SWSat to all!

Great stuff so far everyone

Rich- The NYC Tank is definitely on my "to get" list. Will go well with my two C&O models.

Tom- yea- how about some track work soon.

Melgar- very nice B&M SW9. Great color scheme.

BillT- I have the same 623. One of my favorites and one of the best Lionel ever made.

Johan- Can't say more than WOW ! Anchor looks great!

This week I am debuting a new addition to my fleet. A Lionel Western Maryland GP-7. I purchased this from forum member Mark Boyce. Great looking diesel with Legacy, crew talk, horn/ bell, and smoke. I don't have a Legacy base so its running conventional for now but its very cool. This is my first engine with sound and as I said in another thread- suddenly my conventional stuff seems boring....

Mark being the great guy he is threw a "surprise" in the box. A WM covered hopper that he received as a bonus from another member that he did not need. This is what makes this forum so great.

For her maiden voyage I put out my WM BL-2 # 81 as well. A less popular but very cool (one man's opinion), looking switcher. More photos and an short video below.

The EMD GP7 is a four-axle (B-B) road switcher diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and General Motors Diesel between October 1949 and May 1954.[2] Power was provided by an EMD 567B 16-cylinder engine which generated 1,500 horsepower (1,119 kW).[5] The GP7 was offered both with and without control cabs, and those built without control cabs were called a GP7B. Five GP7B's were built between March and April 1953.[2] The GP7 was the first EMD road locomotive to use a hood unit design instead of a car-body design. This proved to be more efficient than the car body design as the hood unit cost less to build, was cheaper and easier to maintain, and had much better front and rear visibility for switching.

Here is the prototype in Rockwood Pa.

Everyone have a Happy Easter and Happy Passover.

PS- The bunny stopped by early.....

great stuff guys! Any work on the layouts Rich,Tom?

Have a great Easter. Here's some W&LE power

A little industrial action...

Tom

Another great day of excellent switchers, folks!!!  I'll perhaps stretch it a bit in saying this ProtoSound GP7 is a switcher.  This was the first run on the first section on my new layout.  For more information, please check out my topic in my signature line.

Tom Densel,  I enjoyed the industrial switching action.  Your backdrop is really neat!

Here’s some light industrial action of my own.

K-Line Plymouth shoving a covered hopper in natural morning light on the basement central.

Happy Easter Switcher Saturday.  Railking 30-2207-1 B&M PS-2

Happy Switcher Saturday to all !!

Patrick Jean

RSJB18 posted:

"HOPPY" SWSat to all!

Great stuff so far everyone

Rich- The NYC Tank is definitely on my "to get" list. Will go well with my two C&O models.

Tom- yea- how about some track work soon.

Melgar- very nice B&M SW9. Great color scheme.

BillT- I have the same 623. One of my favorites and one of the best Lionel ever made.

Johan- Can't say more than WOW ! Anchor looks great!

This week I am debuting a new addition to my fleet. A Lionel Western Maryland GP-7. I purchased this from forum member Mark Boyce. Great looking diesel with Legacy, crew talk, horn/ bell, and smoke. I don't have a Legacy base so its running conventional for now but its very cool. This is my first engine with sound and as I said in another thread- suddenly my conventional stuff seems boring....

Mark being the great guy he is threw a "surprise" in the box. A WM covered hopper that he received as a bonus from another member that he did not need. This is what makes this forum so great.

For her maiden voyage I put out my WM BL-2 # 81 as well. A less popular but very cool (one man's opinion), looking switcher. More photos and an short video below.

The EMD GP7 is a four-axle (B-B) road switcher diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and General Motors Diesel between October 1949 and May 1954.[2] Power was provided by an EMD 567B 16-cylinder engine which generated 1,500 horsepower (1,119 kW).[5] The GP7 was offered both with and without control cabs, and those built without control cabs were called a GP7B. Five GP7B's were built between March and April 1953.[2] The GP7 was the first EMD road locomotive to use a hood unit design instead of a car-body design. This proved to be more efficient than the car body design as the hood unit cost less to build, was cheaper and easier to maintain, and had much better front and rear visibility for switching.

 

Here is the prototype in Rockwood Pa.

Everyone have a Happy Easter and Happy Passover.

PS- The bunny stopped by early.....

 

Thank you very much for the nice comments, Bob!!  The #23 looks great on your layout!  I am another one who likes BL-2s.  I have 3 actually, all in WM colors.

RSJB18 posted:

"HOPPY" SWSat to all!

Great stuff so far everyone

Rich- The NYC Tank is definitely on my "to get" list. Will go well with my two C&O models.

Tom- yea- how about some track work soon.

Melgar- very nice B&M SW9. Great color scheme.

BillT- I have the same 623. One of my favorites and one of the best Lionel ever made.

Johan- Can't say more than WOW ! Anchor looks great!

This week I am debuting a new addition to my fleet. A Lionel Western Maryland GP-7. I purchased this from forum member Mark Boyce. Great looking diesel with Legacy, crew talk, horn/ bell, and smoke. I don't have a Legacy base so its running conventional for now but its very cool. This is my first engine with sound and as I said in another thread- suddenly my conventional stuff seems boring....

Mark being the great guy he is threw a "surprise" in the box. A WM covered hopper that he received as a bonus from another member that he did not need. This is what makes this forum so great.

For her maiden voyage I put out my WM BL-2 # 81 as well. A less popular but very cool (one man's opinion), looking switcher. More photos and an short video below.

The EMD GP7 is a four-axle (B-B) road switcher diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division and General Motors Diesel between October 1949 and May 1954.[2] Power was provided by an EMD 567B 16-cylinder engine which generated 1,500 horsepower (1,119 kW).[5] The GP7 was offered both with and without control cabs, and those built without control cabs were called a GP7B. Five GP7B's were built between March and April 1953.[2] The GP7 was the first EMD road locomotive to use a hood unit design instead of a car-body design. This proved to be more efficient than the car body design as the hood unit cost less to build, was cheaper and easier to maintain, and had much better front and rear visibility for switching.

 

Here is the prototype in Rockwood Pa.

Everyone have a Happy Easter and Happy Passover.

PS- The bunny stopped by early.....

 

Bob: Thank you. Alco HH660 is one of the my favorite engines and finally get one. Maybe on future when we learn more, we can try 3D printer and made a second HH660. I like also EMD BL2 and own MTH Premier BAR & B&M versions, your WM engines looking so good. Thanks again.

Johan

Thanks Mark and Johan.

Wonderful photos and videos everyone!!  I'm a bit late to the party today.  Here is some shots of my Pennsy 44 tonner ( by WbB ) pulling ore cars.   Have a wonderful weekend!!

BONUS Picture for Easter...

I fooled around the other day and made my own "faux" billboard...I think in the style Lionel would have used "back in the day." Everything from the PRR logo & bunny image to the billboard frame was done in Word and then pasted together with a glue stick. Not bad for my first attempt, I thought. 

For those who encouraged me on making progress on a new layout...if anything does happen, the earliest will be the Summer...Thanks though! 

Tom 

You guys are all awesome, Happy Easter all!

p.s.  I recently joined a Facebook Group called "New York Central Railroad Fangroup" (I know, isn't everyone supposed to be leaving Facebook?) and saw this picture and had to post it for you guys.  Lots of pictures there of these Road Switchers.

See you next week...Rich

Murnane posted:

You guys are all awesome, Happy Easter all!

p.s.  I recently joined a Facebook Group called "New York Central Railroad Fangroup" (I know, isn't everyone supposed to be leaving Facebook?) and saw this picture and had to post it for you guys.  Lots of pictures there of these Road Switchers.

See you next week...Rich

Rich, thank you!  I am on an excellent WM Facebook group and a few good O Gauge groups too!  They can be an excellent source of information!

Murnane posted:

You guys are all awesome, Happy Easter all!

p.s.  I recently joined a Facebook Group called "New York Central Railroad Fangroup" (I know, isn't everyone supposed to be leaving Facebook?) and saw this picture and had to post it for you guys.  Lots of pictures there of these Road Switchers.

See you next week...Rich

Rich.

The New York Central Historical Society has a really great quarterly free modeling e magazine. It is worth a look. 

https://nycshs.files.wordpress...odeler2ndqtr2018.pdf