Switcher Saturday 4-3-21

Happy SwSat!

No eggs, but a colorful hopper.  

Happy SWSat!

A special delivery this week.

Seems that the Easter Bunny made quite a mess of the Team Track yard. The MOW crew will have to work some OT to clean up the mess.

The foreman Joe is left scratching his head.

The rest of the crew surveys the mess.

All the MOW crew can do is shake their heads and get to work.

At least Mr. EB left some treats behind as a thank you for cleaning up his mess.

Hope everyone has a Happy Easter and enjoys the last days of Passover.

Bob

Penn central RS-11 7608 (Lionel) spots a boxcar full of sugar pine lumber from the west coast at the pipe organ factory:

Tom

Yay SWSat is polishing the rails.
Great start this week.

This year I had big plans to rebuild this layout. I actually regauged to On30 but ran out of time on my rebuild  so instead of an all reborn Island of Egg Black Jelly Bean mine I am just posting some old views of the layout. Next year it will be quite changed.

So this is using my K-line Porter and some K-line 19th cent ore Jennies. Egg Island is in the Easter Island Archipelago and its unusual geology make it the home of the only Black licorice jelly bean mine in the world.  

Staying on the Egg topic. A few years ago on a trip to London I found some really surreal public art in the subway at a stop near Kensington.

You can see the track in the foreground. These were really huge but quite interesting to look at while waiting for the train. I hope commuters had not skipped breakfast.

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

Andy nice back story on Easter Egg Island.  I seem to remember a visit there long ago.  And that art is definitely surreal. I couldn't imagine standing on the platform staring at it after a long night at the pub.

Happy Easter!

Good morning fellow switcher fans!  Wonderful photos/info everyone!  Today photos show the FSJR company photographer has been busy this week snapping  photos of switchers doing their thing in and around Patsburg.  

GP 9 at the new locomotive service facility.   Lead mechanic Jake Simmons is on the locos walkway telling the rest of the service crew ( not in photo ) that the mechanicals all check out A ok.    

The new service facility

Patapsco and Back Rivers VO 1000 rounds the bend at Butler Junction.

VO1000 pushes a new hot metal car.

GE 44 tonner on the Mountain Division

Western Maryland BL2 pokes its' nose out of Easterly Tunnel.

A closer look at the BL2 at the point of a coal drag as it cruises through the commuter station.  The passengers on the platform are not impressed.  

TALES OF THE DOCKSIDER

Would you believe the crew of shop switcher X-8688 has another Saturday off?  The crews that have been assigned to work today are starting to wonder if X-8688’s crew has some sort of “arrangement” with the Yardmaster to get so many Saturdays off!

NYC Beep 5903 has stepped up to be the switcher of the day.  She’s on a caboose hop with a new homemade work caboose.  The caboose is so new the shop has yet to letter and number it!

John

@Steam Crazy posted:

TALES OF THE DOCKSIDER

Would you believe the crew of shop switcher X-8688 has another Saturday off?  The crews that have been assigned to work today are starting to wonder if X-8688’s crew has some sort of “arrangement” with the Yardmaster to get so many Saturdays off!

NYC Beep 5903 has stepped up to be the switcher of the day.  She’s on a caboose hop with a new homemade work caboose.  The caboose is so new the shop has yet to letter and number it!

John

I just picked up that same NYC beep a few weeks ago on Ebay. Got it at a great price and I wanted one NYC diesel on my (Western) line in honor of growing up near the old Big Four NYC Mainline in Cleveland. I also have the MPC Yard Chief NYC work set (0-4-0 steamer) which was the first set I purchased when I reentered O gauge railroading back in 1985. Nostalgia, you know...

Hello switcher fans...well I must admit that I "busted" on the Easter presentations, so I will just have to post what I have.  Today the star of the show is a Lionel type # 152 "S" cab that is serving as our switch engine today.  She is very short wheelbase so the L&S likes to use her in tight spots.  She has been around since 1917 so is very familiar to the yard crews.

The job today is easy...drop the caboose on the main, then move past the switch and back into the team track behind the depot.  There pick up an empty cattle car to be returned to the Union Stock Lines.    She is old #152, been around for decades and showing some wear and in need of paint, but the L&S is too cheap to spring for a paint job...besides the paint doesn't help her pull a load (so says management),

Here she is getting ready to perform her task for today.  The caboose, a number 801,borrowed from the Wabash and dating from 1926 has been left on the main while the engineer backs up the team track to couple up to the stock car.  The #901 "Lake Shore" Gondola dating from about 1918 (its a "Corporation Car") and available until 1919 provides some additional length so he doesn't have to back as far into the yard. 

Here is the view from the caboose end.  The #802 "Union Stock Lines" stock car dating from 1915 to 1926 and unstamped on the bottom, hence likely earlier than 1918 in the background is the task for today.  Once she has that picked up, she can move out and get the cars where they need to go. 

Happy SwSat everyone...have a Blessed Easter.

Don

Well guys here is what I got today, The Coor's switcher stopping at the Coor's  light building to drop off some Banquet for a huge Party!

LOL, WOW I missed the switcher!

Happy SWSAT everyone. I know I’m late  but look who’s riding on the layout. Happy Easter.

Here’s my Saturday Switcher. It’s the Lionel 1615, my first train that I got for Christmas in 1956. She still runs great! I took this photo today on our 4 ft by 4 ft layout we started building in January.

Happy Switcher Saturday!

@WP posted:

Here’s my Saturday Switcher. It’s the Lionel 1615, my first train that I got for Christmas in 1956. She still runs great! I took this photo today on our 4 ft by 4 ft layout we started building in January.

Happy Switcher Saturday!

What a neat little layout! Well done.

Thank you Dave!