Switcher Saturday: 2019-May-11

Thanks to Tom for posting today's SWSAT. I look forward to it every Saturday morning. Four #228s - no problem...

There has been recent discussion on the Forum about the MTH Premier GE 44-ton diesel-electric switcher model’s performance through certain switches at low speeds, with some operators saying they have been encountering stoppage due to loss of electrical contact and trying to remedy the problem. I have been running my New Haven 0807 locomotive since 2017 without any issue on my layout with Atlas O track and O-54 switches. The video shows a short New Haven consist running at eight scale miles per hour.

MELGAR

Trains from Czechoslovakia are better known since there is a good train manufacturer in the country, ETS. this little boxcab loco is based on a real model and is very representative, the matching passenger cars have more a tinplate look but it makes a nice train. Electric boxcab locos have been popular in Europe and this one is particularly nice.

have a nice weekend,  Daniel

Weaver GE U25b with Bowser/Cal scale radio phone antenna added. 

Yay! SWSat is in the “on” position!

We are off to a great start this AM. Thanks Tom P/MNCW for getting us rolling. 

Here are some switchers waiting up at the Port Jarvis Yard on the NYSME O scale 2 rail layout last Wednesday. 

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

West Michigan #100 Rusty
Photograph is mine.

Switching duties on the S&Y RR

Happy SWSat!

Thanks for getting us started this week Tom.

Great photos so far everyone.

A brief study in scale sizes this week. I picked up a couple of State of Maine box cars for my new BAR BEEP. Amazing how different they are in size. Both are Lionel, still nice looking cars though. The first one fits better with my rolling stock. The second is closer to scale size I guess. I'm about as far from a rivet counter as one could get so please share more info if anyone has.

Have a great weekend and Happy Mothers Day to all the moms out there.

Bob

Great photos everyone! 

Keep them coming.

Tom 

Happy Switcher Saturday from Finland. More Bangor& Aroostook action.

Tom you can  never show off those 228s enough.

Rutland 0-6-0 #101

#102

Reading #1177

#1192

Have a great day Guys

Those Reading 0-4-0 camelbacks would make a great model.

Happy SWSAT! Rich ask if I could send some of that fresh California fruit from the Wortham Warehouse they received a couple weeks ago back east well the reefer is finally loaded and ready to be put in the manifest. Have a great weekend and Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mom’s

Good morning fellow SWsat friends!  As always, you guys have a wonderful display of information, photos, and videos.  ( MELGAR - love that 44 tonner video ... hope the railroad police doesn't spot those folks riding inside the boxcar. ) 

Tom - Thanks so much for taking the throttle for Rich this morning!  Love that switcher loco too!  

This week did not allow time for the taking of new photos.  Instead, I've tapped the archives and came up with this variety of switchers doing their thing on the FSJR. ... SW 9, 0-8-0, RS1, VO- 1000, BL2, GP9, and 44 tonner. 

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and lets remember our Moms in a special way tomorrow!!  

A new MTH acquisition, a beefy SP MP1500ac...

Happy, happy SWSAT!

Pulling the refinery track.

Lew

1960 Atlantic City

9337 Atlantic City 1960

Atlantic City – 1954

Atlantic City Street Running

I was doing some additional research on the Alco GE Ingersoll-Rand Box Cabs and found that there are apparently two survivors -- one in the Illinois Railway Museum and the other (the original demonstrator) in the Henry Ford Museum. The white unit is in Illionois after being donated by Ingersoll-Rand (who painted it), and apparently it was running when donated. The others saw a long period of service before being scrapped.

Matt,

  Here's a photo from the Henry Ford Museum.

Tom

Matt, if memory serves me correctly, there is also one in the Baltimore RR museum.

UPDATE:  Memory still works:

http://www.borail.org/CNJ-No1000.aspx

Video of Ingersoll/Also/GE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...5O0yanP4OefnHlwZUfIw

Tom, my office overlooked the working area of that loco in Jersey City.  Interesting to watch it serving the Colgate plant.

How about a little Milwaukee Road

MELGAR, great NH 44 run in scale speed. Thanks for the video.

RSJB18, that Bangor Aroostook Blue BEEP is beautiful with the state of Maine cars. i have postwar Lionel 027 ones with operating blue man.

BAR GP7 # 63. Great B&A & MEC action indeed.

AGHR MATT, those ingersol rand boxcars are always a favorite of mine

ANDEY SILVER LAKE, thanks for the scale stuff. 

Not home this weekend. 

Can send some repeat photos on my I pad.

thanks guys, great Saturday switcher as usual.

These are repeat Shelfies, in keeping with current interests.

MNCW, you are a historian with lots to share. Thank you Tom for hosting his week.

btw: if that 228 with the postwar couplers needs a new home I am in line!

FRENCH TRAINS, bien sur avec les ETS!

A video of my B&O #317 at the show today at the Smithsonian Postal Museum in Washington DC.

My module - which has a post office of course.

Great pictures all - and Thank You to Tom @PRR8976 for running the yard today!

Great pics today, everyone!

Peter

Leroof posted:

 

MNCW, you are a historian with lots to share. Thank you Tom for hosting his week.

btw: if that 228 with the postwar couplers needs a new home I am in line!

FRENCH TRAINS, bien sur avec les ETS!

Hi Leroof,

Thanks for your comments.

As far as giving up one of my 228's...To reduce my fleet of #228's would cause a squad of scientists to needlessly recalculate the complicated percentages that I provide to show how many I own of the overall Lionel production of 15,000 228's.

Here was today's calculation. No short cuts are ever taken in order to provide an accurate percentage. 

Tom

Leroof posted:

 

MELGAR, great NH 44 run in scale speed. Thanks for the video.

RSJB18, that Bangor Aroostook Blue BEEP is beautiful with the state of Maine cars. i have postwar Lionel 027 ones with operating blue man.

BAR GP7 # 63. Great B&A & MEC action indeed.

AGHR MATT, those ingersol rand boxcars are always a favorite of mine

ANDEY SILVER LAKE, thanks for the scale stuff. 

Not home this weekend. 

Can send some repeat photos on my I pad.

thanks guys, great Saturday switcher as usual.

These are repeat Shelfies, in keeping with current interests.

MNCW, you are a historian with lots to share. Thank you Tom for hosting his week.

btw: if that 228 with the postwar couplers needs a new home I am in line!

FRENCH TRAINS, bien sur avec les ETS!

Leroof. Thanks. Your engines looking really good, specially i like that weathering.

Johan

Another great SWSat!

Thanks again Tom. No worries on the re-calculations. IBM Watson can do it in a blink of an eye

Thanks for checking in and sharing that great video Rich. Looks like it was a good show.

Bob

Pierre repeats of your boxcab and the freighter in the background are always welcome.

Thanks for the kind words @Leroof. Who made that great looking boxcab? Somehow these pictures are new to me so thank you for posting them. The boat in the background looks really great. (Us scale guys have to represent and convince others here to lift up that center rail and swinging pilots.)

Rich @Murnane congratulations on what looks like a fun run at the museum. I think that Museum was the last one to open before I moved away to go to college. I liked the ex-Southern RPO they have displayed. The video looks like you have quite a group of young audience members. 

A big question I have for you is the two Jeep DJs in this close up. Are they 1/43? I have been long looking for some of these. They were once so ubiquitous but since they are not from the most popular period you just can’t find them.

@PRR8976 have you calculated how many of those 15,000 units are still extant. There must be a formula. Your ownership percentage will probably go up. 

                           NH ALCO RS11 at NJ Hirailers Paterson, NJ.

I saw this switcher at the Black River and Western RR. My apologies if it was shown before and I missed it. 

How about a ten wheel switcher?

MNCW posted:

As far as giving up one of my 228's...To reduce my fleet of #228's would cause a squad of scientists to needlessly recalculate the complicated percentages that I provide to show how many I own of the overall Lionel production of 15,000 228's.

Here was today's calculation. No short cuts are ever taken in order to provide an accurate percentage. 

Tom

Tom,

I think you should have an integral in there somewhere... Either I have forgotten all my electrical engineering or that stuff looks somewhat suspect... Is this the proof that you still don't have enough #228s?

MELGAR

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday from Finland. More Bangor& Aroostook action.

Johan,  I love your layout.

Your Geep really gets around. Here it is in front of the engine house in Cadillac, Michigan in Sept. 1969

MELGAR posted:

MNCW posted:

As far as giving up one of my 228's...To reduce my fleet of #228's would cause a squad of scientists to needlessly recalculate the complicated percentages that I provide to show how many I own of the overall Lionel production of 15,000 228's.

Here was today's calculation. No short cuts are ever taken in order to provide an accurate percentage. 

Tom

Tom,

I think you should have an integral in there somewhere... Either I have forgotten all my electrical engineering or that stuff looks somewhat suspect... Is this the proof that you still don't have enough #228s?

MELGAR

Mel/MELGAR,

  After a significant analysis of the data, that is EXACTLY what the outcome was! 

  This was the moment when the results were finalized (notice the first 2 drivers of the #228 can be seen on the blackboard) and they were satisfied with the decision:

Tom 

Jerry Williams posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday from Finland. More Bangor& Aroostook action.

Johan,  I love your layout.

Your Geep really gets around. Here it is in front of the engine house in Cadillac, Michigan in Sept. 1969

Jerry. Thank you. Really nice picture, thanks for sharing.

Johan