Switcher Saturday 3/27/2021

Happy SWSAT everyone. Here’s some random pics of my only two Swithers I have enjoy your weekend

Happy SWSat!

A new arrival this week! I just picked up a PRR Boxcab by K-line from a forum member. No overhead cantenary on the RSJ&B but this engine will be right at home here.

The LIRR ore car is also a new addition.

Happy Saturday!

Bob

Marx switcher 588 moving a PRR gon with leftover wood & track screws from the old layout.  Time to focus on what’s left.  Have a great SwSat!

Have a great weekend everyone!

I found a short video that I took at the FWRHS open house in 2019:

I apologize for the poor quality.  I was walking to the event from the parking lot when I saw the train getting ready to move.  I just grabbed my phone and shot...no tripod here. lol.  Do I get any points for shooting it in landscape mode?

Tom

@tnkMarx posted:

Marx switcher 588 moving a PRR gon with leftover wood & track screws from the old layout.  Time to focus on what’s left.  Have a great SwSat!

That Marx equipment looks GOOD with your backdrops!

Tom

TALES OF THE DOCKSIDER

Well, shop switcher X-8688 didn’t show up last Saturday and her crew has this Saturday off, so Rio Grande GE 44 tonner no. 42 is the switcher of the day.  No. 42, heading up the daily local freight, has just picked up two tankers from the ABC Oil Refinery.

John

Off to a great start.  JHZ Some pics of the LEGO hopper behind the ETS switcher would be nice.

Happy Switcher Saturday from My Somewhere in Maine layout.

@Tom Densel posted:

I found a short video that I took at the FWRHS open house in 2019:

I apologize for the poor quality.  I was walking to the event from the parking lot when I saw the train getting ready to move.  I just grabbed my phone and shot...no tripod here. lol.  Do I get any points for shooting it in landscape mode?

Tom

Hey that is the engine 126 that I got to drive here at the NCTM years ago.  See they "fixed" the whistle!  I broke it. pulled it over.  Then it was mounted on a long pipe.  So I did not get to blow and/or play it, bummer!

Ron

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday from My Somewhere in Maine layout.

That Caboose pic is Awesome Johan

Weaver GP38-2. 

So last night when I was getting ready to launch #SWSAT, I looked at what was on the layout and decided to have some more switcher fun.  All the regular road switchers must have been busy and the dispatcher behind schedule, because for some reason the two critters were assigned to make a coal delivery.

They must have been having a tractive effort problem of some kind because not to much later, this rolled by...

So most of you folks have seen by now that alot of my interest in trains revolves around coal deliveries to power plants.  Since a large part of my professional career has revolved around taking care of the equipment that processes the fuel before going into the boilers, its a natural fit. 

Previously I have shared images of this 80 ton center cab as it sits today.

But this week I had the opportunity to find some older pictures and I think you'll like them.

Here is one of the two 80 ton machines spotting some hoppers for unloading. 

Below is two shots of a hopper that according to the picture caption has electric motors to open the hopper bottom doors. 

Apparently it wasn't a hit because really how many electric motor equipped bottom dump hopper have you heard of? The plant now uses all bath tub bottom style hoppers that get dumped by being rotated over.

Also of note was the Montour RR hopper at Brunner Island. Previously I had no idea that the MTR ever sent its equipment south.

The 4 black and white photos here are 8 x 10's in a binder.  I scanned as pdf's at work but couldn't get them to post that way to the forum.  The light bleed onto the images is because I didn't want to take the binder apart and I didn't realize the binder wasn't laying flat.  These images are snippets of the pdf images.  The depth of information in the pdf files that the original was able to capture is just amazing.

I hope you like them.

Happy switcher Saturday everyone! I’m a little late to the game today, but it’s never too late for Subway work trains and little modified k line switchers:

MTH CN SW8 - short video I created for the Weaver thread about 57' reefers with sound.

"Open to All Scale", these guys were off to a siding behind the grain mill in Rosemount, MN this morning as a UP HAULING freight rumbled through. Same place the "BIG BOY" made a cameo on its way to the Train depot two years ago. Does this qualify as Switcher Saturday?

Hi everyone...WOW what a Satuday.  jhz563 a double headed Plymouth powered coal train with Mallet assist !, an 80 ton / hopper historical post, AND you got us started today...YOU deserve the rest of the day off, Thank you for that effort!.  Tom Densel, great movie.  I wish I knew where the FWRHS was (Fort Worth?) because the movie is really neat, thanks.  Lee - living in Ohio for a number of years, the Indiana Harbor Belt is familiar, great switcher.  RSJB18...OK, I admit to being jealous.  A Kline Box Cab !  In PRR colors !! great engine...I never realized that Kline ever did anything like that.  If your friend knows any others available for sale, please forward my interest.

OK so what am I doing today?  I am sort of in line with tnkMarx with his 588 NYC switcher.  Personally I love these 588 types, they run well, go over my 0-27 switches, look good, and normally don't cost too much.  Today, the scene on the L&S indicates that spring is just around the corner.  Those spring BBQ's are heating up and we have to have the potato's to make the French fries to go with the burgers.   Here is our Marx 112 switcher pulling a car full of potato's headed for the fryers of Small Town. 

Close up of the Marx 112 Lehigh Valley switcher.  This is a bit of an odd duck for Marx.  It is clearly the 588 plastic shell just like the rest of the GE 70 tonner's but this one is DC powered and not by battery but with a DC motor taking power from the tracks.  Too bad really as I like the bright red color and decorative flags but you can't run it with the rest of the fleet.  Someday I may find one to experiment with and try and move the shell to a regular Marx AC drive.  This guy is really a late comer to Marx...made between '74 and '76.  Of course this was after Mr. Marx sold the company to Quaker Oats in 1972 and worse the upcoming end of Marx trains (not toys) in 1975 with the closing of the Gerard , Pa facility.

Here is that train, moving off, displaying the matching LV caboose.

Happy SwSat everyone

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Tom Densel, great movie.  I wish I knew where the FWRHS was (Fort Worth?) because the movie is really neat, thanks.

Happy SwSat everyone

Don

FWRHS = Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, Home of Nickel Plate 765.  They are located just east of New Haven, Indiana.  They have an open house in August.  Great way to spend a day!

Tom

@Miggy posted:

" Does this qualify as Switcher Saturday?

This certainly qualifies.   Look up the Switcher Saturday post about Brookville Equipment Co., sometimes full size is the feature topic 🙂

Good afternoon fellow switcher fans!  You all have some wonderful pics, videos, and info of switchers both model, toy, and real

The company photographer has been busy again this week out and about on the FJSR system.  Here is the photos that she snapped of switchers in action.   Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!  Be safe = Be well!

WM BL2 running lite west bound.

Mumford, Buford, and Willie just mu'd these two GP9s which are on the ready track.

Pennsy A5 gets the job done!

A5 gets ready to take on water at the Butler Junction tank.

A5 engineer Floyd Hammock and conductor Barney Bailey stretch their legs and shoot the bull.

A Reading Train Master road switcher running east bound meets a N&W Y6b running west bound.

C16 Dockside pushing some heavy metal!

B&O switch crew talk over the switch list.  

@lee drennen posted:

That Caboose pic is Awesome Johan

Lee. Thank you very much. I like that pic too.

Johan

Oh yea! SWSat! My latest addition! Going out to repaint soon...... but gotta break her in first! A nice addition to my layout of all switcher locomotives!

@C_Murley posted:

Oh yea! SWSat! My latest addition! Going out to repaint soon...... but gotta break her in first! A nice addition to my layout of all switcher locomotives!

Very nice.  Judging by that sound package,  I am guessing that is a proto sound 1 edition.   Glad to see one rolling 🙂

Ps2......

oh, forgot, this is going to be it’s repaint.......

@jhz563 posted:

This certainly qualifies.   Look up the Switcher Saturday post about Brookville Equipment Co., sometimes full size is the feature topic 🙂

Welllllll, first time I looked up a Train Engine number on the internet. I just thought it was a kewl photo for Switcher Saturday. What else can I learn? How did you know it was a Brookville?

@Miggy posted:

Welllllll, first time I looked up a Train Engine number on the internet. I just thought it was a kewl photo for Switcher Saturday. What else can I learn? How did you know it was a Brookville?

I have no idea if Brookville worked on either of those locomotives.   Since you jokingly asked if the pictures qualify, when I answered I just meant that sometimes full size locomotives are a feature topic on Switcher Saturday.   A month or two ago the feature topic of Switcher Saturday was Brookville Equipment Corporation.   We have also had some photos from Republic Locomotive Works.

@Tom Densel posted:

That Marx equipment looks GOOD with your backdrops!

Tom

Thanks Tom!

@Don McErlean posted:

Hi everyone...WOW what a Satuday.  jhz563 a double headed Plymouth powered coal train with Mallet assist !, an 80 ton / hopper historical post, AND you got us started today...YOU deserve the rest of the day off, Thank you for that effort!.  Tom Densel, great movie.  I wish I knew where the FWRHS was (Fort Worth?) because the movie is really neat, thanks.  Lee - living in Ohio for a number of years, the Indiana Harbor Belt is familiar, great switcher.  RSJB18...OK, I admit to being jealous.  A Kline Box Cab !  In PRR colors !! great engine...I never realized that Kline ever did anything like that.  If your friend knows any others available for sale, please forward my interest.

Happy SwSat everyone

Don

Thanks Don- I've been on the hunt for one for a while. It's all about the timing. An added bonus was that the seller is a member of the TMB Trainmasters of Babylon club and I met him at the club to pick it up. One of the members had a sweet NYC Niagara passenger train running.

Bob

@coach joe posted:

Off to a great start.  JHZ Some pics of the LEGO hopper behind the ETS switcher would be nice.

Okay I heard you Joe.  I see your request, and I think I'll take it up a few notches.

JHZ, you did take it up a few notches!  Your collection is diverse and inclusive, just like this thread!  I love that  ETS engine!  Oh, oh, maybe I need one?

John

@Steam Crazy posted:

JHZ, you did take it up a few notches!  Your collection is diverse and inclusive, just like this thread!  I love that  ETS engine!  Oh, oh, maybe I need one?

John

Thank you.   Now that I think about it, probably have at least one Williams piece of rolling stock that would fit in with that train and I know there are a couple pieces of Industrial Rail in the basement somewhere that would cover Atlas.  It would be harder to mix in the Marx stuff without building a transition car. There's a few other oddities downstairs too.  I used to think that guys who could forget what was in their collection were just crazy out of control-now I am becoming that guy!