Switcher Saturday: 2019-Jul-27

Yay! SWSat is in the “on” position!

Thanks for getting things rolling as always Rich. Gotta love those NYC switchers from the “Yard Boss”set. Definitely one of Lionel’s best sets from the 1980’s. I love the paintings they used to put on the set boxes some of the fun was lost when those went away.

This week I was going over my pictures from the week and I had some images I was going to use but then on Thursday I took this one and it is by far my favorite. It  is of a MTA work train engineer waiting in the GEs cab. She seems to be having a great time in her late night hours. I see a lot of women driving the subway trains but I have not seen one in a work engine cab. I really like how happy she looks joking with her coworker on the platform.

As you can see there are replacement knuckles on the deck and the rails the workers will be replacing are sitting under the engine. 

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

Saw this last Saturday on the for sale ORG list while watching Switcher Saturday 

Made by a talented french modeller, a sort of French Galloping Goose .... a De Dion Bouton autorail, the original model dates back to the 1900's when those engines where running on secondary lines in the country.

Have a nice weekend,   Daniel

Happy Switcher Saturday all! Nice pictures everyone.

Rich, thanks for getting us started.

Tom

Postwar switcher action on the S&Y RR.

                                           Crane tender #1720 on the bay now...….

Good morning fellow SWsat freinds!   Rich - thanks for being at the throttle again this morning and getting us moving!  Love the NYC 0-4-0 switcher!   Nice that the agriculture fair will have trains running too!

Tom - I love the pairing of the Pennsy switcher and caboose!  The warehouse background set the shot up well.  Very nice photo!

Andy - wonderful photos of the women engineer!  Yes she does look quite happy joking with her coworker.  I mean, hey who would not be happy being a locomotive engineer right?

French Trains - cool looking rail bus!

Bill T -  Postwar switchers bring back childhood memories to me.  Seeing those switchers on the wall of locomotives in Baltimore's train stores when I was a kid was just a thrilling feeling to me!  I especially loved the RS 3 locomotives back then and still do.  Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

 Today I was hoping to have a video or at least some photos of a Canton Railroad switcher doing its thing in the Canton section of Baltimore early yesterday evening.   I was picking up friends from NYC who came down on the FLEX bus which stops in the Canton section of Baltimore.   Low and behold as I was crossing the CRR tracks at a grade crossing ( Boston Street )  I looked down the tracks and far off in the distance I saw locomotive headlights.  I waited for quite some time, however the locomotive never came my way.   

Today I have some photos of the Delmarva Central Railroad switchers which I took in Harrington, Delaware in early June.   Harrington is the home of the DCR which is owned by Carload Express.  DCR operates 188 miles of track on the Delmarva Peninsula in DE, MD, and VA The 4th photo down is of a Pennsy caboose since the DCR runs on former Pennsylvania ROW.  The caboose is part of a tiny museum adjacent to the DCR tracks.  The photos were taken on a Sunday afternoon so the seven locomotives were taking the day off ... as the DCR never operates on Sundays.  The DCR has a fleet of 12 locos including a, SD 40s , GP38-2 s,  and MP15AC (  all shown in photos below )

 Although not switcher related ... I took the last photo on July 6 in Roanoke, Va. in the NS yards .... its a N&W burrow crane and N&W gondola.  Somehow NS never changed the markings on this equipment and I thought it was worth taking the photo with my cell phone.  I took the photo through a chain link fence at dusk.  Wish I could have gotten closer.   I hope you all enjoy the photos.   Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

   BNSF SD40-2 "road swicher" downgraded to yard service at NJ Hirailers Paterson, NJ

Happy SWSat!
Another great day. Thanks Rich!

A couple from the archives.....some Plymouth action

Brian, I don't think I've ever met a switcher I didn't like 

Lew

Switching the East End this AM, a task for which the SW1500 Switcher is eminently qualified 

Two pickups and one set-out is today's work. The PRR grain hopper (with graffiti) and the B&O covered hopper (under the tipple) are being picked up and the Great Northern grain hopper is to be set-out. Oh, and on the way out the orange tank car will be re-spotted where the GN car is presently sitting.

Lew

For many years my Cousin was a truck diesel mechanic and one day the local gravel quarry called him to rebuild both engines in their GE 44-tonner. He wondered why him until he opened the access doors and looked upon two standard 180 Cummins truck engines.

Lew

Hi Guys & GALS 

I went to the LHS  this after noon,  Sommerfeld's  Trains to get out of the house .    I found the Lionel Lionchief set on sale !

I now have a Pennsy  switcher !  It is low cost !  It has that Lionel  hop because the engine is a 0-8-0 engine !  Nice set over all !  

Hey SWSAT team,

I've got a few personal events going on the next two Saturdays, does anyone want to volunteer to engineer the "Switcher Saturday" trains on Aug 3rd and 10th?  

The main thing is to start a new thread in the HI-RAIL, O27 AND TRADITIONAL 3-RAIL O GAUGE section of the forum anytime early Saturday morning, suggested titles would be as follows, but feel free to be creative if you'd like.

Switcher Saturday: 2019-Aug-03

Switcher Saturday: 2019-Aug-10

Please note here if you want to jump on the opportunity and thanks...Rich 

Hey guys, on vacation with the family this week.  Stopped in some antique stores for the Mrs. and saw this fanciful picture on display.  Not sure this would count as a switcher, but a single driving axle does put it in the small and unusual category. Enjoy