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It's Switcher Saturday!!!!

Love switchers, shifters, docksiders, yard goats, critters? Join the fun and lets keep #SwitcherSaturday (a.k.a. SWSAT) rolling!

In cased you missed it, Tom @PRR8976  ran last week's SWSAT while I was at a train club event, here's the link to check it out!
https://ogrforum.com/...saturday-2019-may-11


My pictures today are of NYC #9000 (MTH/RailKing 30-1255-1) working the Richmond, Chesapeake, and Hudson Yard (RiCHY).

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This engine has had some ups and downs since I picked it up around four years ago, it's been running great though since forum member GGG gave it an overhaul late last year.


Enjoy your weekend and when you get a chance - please post some switcher stuff here!

You know the rules:

1. if it's related to switchers (model switchers, prototypes, critters, switching yards, switching layouts) - we want to see it! Videos, Pics, Stories (true or fictional), poems, whatever!

2. if you miss the post on Saturday? NO BIG DEAL, just keep posting pictures of your favorites until the next #SwitcherSaturday

3. keep it friendly - we want this to be fun. (we haven't had any problems with grumpy trolls, I'd like to keep it that way)


All the best...Rich Murnane

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Happy SWSAT to all and thanks to Rich for supervising this operation. New York Central 0-4-0 switcher #901 is the smallest O gauge steam engine that I own and chugs along nicely, but the sounds are not loud. It is an MTH Premier model that seems to be the same as the MTH PRR A-5 0-4-0 switcher without the Belpaire firebox. I consulted “Steam Locomotives of the New York Central Lines” (Edson and Vail, 1997) and did not find a drawing or photograph that looks like this 0-4-0. It appears the New York Central had few 0-4-0 switchers and retired them early in the twentieth century in favor of Class B 0-6-0 types.

MELGAR

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Happy SWSat!

Another great start to the weekend. Thanks as always Rich and welcome back.

Great photos so far everyone.

Here's some early Delaware and Hudson power.

The D&H was founded as the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. in April 1823 to build a canal to transport coal from its mines in northeastern Pennsylvania to New York City. As the railroad industry evolved in the 1830's and '40's, it began marketing its coal by rail, finally selling the waterway in 1898 and dropping "canal" from its corporate title. Its big entry into the railroad business came in 1870, when it leased the Albany & Susquehanna, which ran between Binghamton and Albany. The following year, D&H leased the Rensselaer & Saratoga north of the Albany area, and by 1875 it had completed a railroad along the west side of Lake Champlain to Canada.

The D&H's glory period was in the early 20th century, peaking in the late '20's. During this time, it operated electric trolley and interurban lines around Albany and expanded its hotel and steamboat interests in the Lake George and Lake Champlain areas. D&H also had iron mines, apple orchards, and limekilns in New York state, and it developed and expanded coal mines in Pennsylvania. Great strides in steam-locomotive development occurred under legendary president Leanor F. Loree, who strengthened the company's financial foundations and greatly upgraded the infrastructure.

Read more here

http://www.trainweb.org/dhvm/images/dhrr_steam/B-4a/Darren-E-Hadley/31-01.jpg

Fort Edward NY, date unknown

http://www.trainweb.org/dhvm/images/dhrr_steam/B-4a/Darren-E-Hadley/46-01.jpg

Colonie NY, June 1947

http://www.trainweb.org/dhvm/images/dhrr_steam/B-5/Darren-E-Hadley/81-01.jpg

Wilkes-Barre PA,  September 1947

http://www.trainweb.org/dhvm/images/dhrr_steam/B-5/Darren-E-Hadley/82-01.jpg

Binghampton NY, date unknown

http://www.trainweb.org/dhvm/images/dhrr_steam/B-1b/Darren-E-Hadley/22-01.jpg

Colonie NY, September 1926

Everyone have a great weekend. Finally sunny here in NY.

Bob

 

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Yay SWSat is “On”. 

Off to a great start this weekend. Love all the D&H stuff you posted Bob @RSJB18. This post that @briansilvermustang posted is really interesting to me. It looks like this is one of the Providence Worcester RS3s that was leased from D&H after it was returned to the D&H when the P&W bought its own engines. I have never seen a pic of this I wonder how long it was like this. It looks like it was patch repainted keeping most of the P&W paint but with the D&H shield added. 

I have fallen down a rabbit hole of compressed air engines because I have been working on a coal breaker scene. These engines worked on a charge of compressed air from an external steam engine and had no internal fires to avoid explosions in plants and areas with a lot of combustible material like coal mines. 

I like the looks of these small ones with multiple tanks. Also the close clearance cabs.402525D6-09F5-425E-8996-D5D10176EDA5F1531319-A23D-4CBA-8281-7BADD0065B065F02283B-396D-4DD6-B393-E85F253C5513

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

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