Switcher Saturday 5-14-22

Happy SWSAT!

It looks like two boxcars have arrived from Maine - Bangor & Aroostook #1407 (by Weaver) and Maine Central #36123 (by Atlas O) and are now on the New York Central Railroad behind NYC 0-8-0 #415 and ahead of NYC caboose #19654 (by MTH). Pictures and videos on my 10’-by-5’ layout – just an oval with scenery.

New York Central #415 is a scale-sized MTH Railking model (30-1123-1 with PS1) of a USRA 0-8-0 steam switcher that appeared in the 1997 Volume 2 catalog at an MSRP of $399.00. Mine has a BCR and has been running on my model railroads for almost 25 years.

Between 1918 and 1920, the United States Railroad Administration nationalized U.S. railroads to ensure efficient operation during World War 1. The USRA also designed standardized 0-6-0 and 0-8-0 switchers as well as other types of steam locomotives. A total of 1,375 0-8-0s were built to the USRA design during and after the war. The engine and tender weighed 364,000 pounds. The engines ran at 175 pounds-per-square-inch boiler pressure and developed 51,042 pounds of tractive force.

MELGAR

Happy SWSAT, everyone!

Penn Central SW8 8623 (Lionel) handles a transfer run this morning:

Tom

Happy SWSat!

A couple from the archives this week. Western Maryland # 23 GP-7 (Lionel w/TMCC), and Western Maryland

# 81, BL-2 (Williams), with the distinctive WM Fireball.

Have a great weekend!
Bob

JHZ, thanks for getting us rollin’ again!

Your Yardmaster grabbed his camera and headed East today to the B&A Boston-Worcester line in Westborough, MA.  It’s 1950, many locomotives in NYC (owner of B&A)  livery have begun to appear on the B&A tracks.  NYC 0-4-0 no. 901 was filmed at this location with a work extra.

John

Happy Switcher Saturday, everyone!  My little B6 just pulled a few cars out of the yard on its way to the industrial center of town. Fortunately,  SpongeBob was able to give the all clear signal down track -

A little SWSat…🚂🫣😺

Good morning fellow switcher fans!!  JHZ 563 thanks so much for notching out the throttle and getting us rolling .... and thanks for sharing the video of the little switcher that whistles!!  Very cool sound!!

Everyone has wonderful photo and videos up this morning.  I had fun watching all the great movies with switchers in action from your layouts.   Thank you all for sharing!!   I hope all of you have a terrific weekend!!

Today on the FSJR it's about end cab switchers with the exception of the top photo of an 0-8-0 pushing a air dump car.

Switching assignments are most likely not to be in the prettiest parts of town.  Here a B&O SW9 exits a tunnel in back of town.

SW9 bring some TOFC cars around a bend.

SW9 assigned to a MOW train.

SW9 Mu'd with a GP9 exits Northwest Tunnel.

A MA&PA SW1 is at the point of a local freight as a new Tucker is being unloaded on a team track.

                                              MTA

Hello folks on this fine SwSat !.  Great pictures and videos all, but Strap Hanger - "Sponge Bob" takes the cake!!

My input this morning is from the PRR - despite all the NYC photo's today.  Its the Lionel # 2295 0-6-0 tank switcher and I tried to capture it hard at work on the Leonardtown and Savannah moving freight in and around the yard.  Unfortunately my video camera work suffers from one hand on the camera and one on the ZW!. Well anyway, here she is working hard on this find Saturday.

Here she is moving a single box car into the yards, note this box car has just arrived in Savannah from the Galveston wharves.

Here is a short video of her in motion, please excuse the poor camera work.

Happy SwSat everyone...best wishes to all, have a great weekend.

Don

Happy Switcher Saturday. Nothing amazing this week, but Module # 4 is a bit advanced, but there is still a lot to build before top-level construction can begin.

Layout still “under construction” but N and W SW 8 is ready to work as soon as things calm down.

Have a great Switcher Saturday! U.S. Army just dropped off some Missiles. And moving a satellite,

Baltimore & Annapolis SW9 at the point of a freight train.

Fall of '64...

KC&G NW2 #136 trundles along in the Riverfront District on the Missouri side of Kansas City as it goes about its business of switching the customers therein as the "Day Job". (The Night Job has the dubious moniker of being called the "Alley Cat", but no such nickname has yet stuck to the Day Job.)

Both jobs that work the Riverfront District are real "beans n' taters" jobs. Nothing glamorous about them. Both jobs mainly run about among the buildings in the Riverfront District switching the various docks, doors and what have you, all in the effort of trying to help the KC&G make a living on the steel rails of commerce.

No, working a lowly switch job like either the Day Job or the Alley Cat, there's no "romance of the high iron", or any such thing. However, you get to sleep in your own bed every time you finish your shift, so it takes lots of whiskers to hold such a job... the Day Job more so than the Alley Cat.

Andre

Thanks for another great Switcher Saturday crew .

My daughter and I took a railroading adventure of a different kind today.   We went to the partially constructed boiler of the PRR T-1 Trust project.

Check out the pictures in this thread.

@Tom Densel posted:

Happy SWSAT, everyone!

Penn Central SW8 8623 (Lionel) handles a transfer run this morning:

Tom

Very nice video Tom

@MELGAR posted:

Happy SWSAT!

It looks like two boxcars have arrived from Maine - Bangor & Aroostook #1407 (by Weaver) and Maine Central #36123 (by Atlas O) and are now on the New York Central Railroad behind NYC 0-8-0 #415 and ahead of NYC caboose #19654 (by MTH). Pictures and videos on my 10’-by-5’ layout – just an oval with scenery.

New York Central #415 is a scale-sized MTH Railking model (30-1123-1 with PS1) of a USRA 0-8-0 steam switcher that appeared in the 1997 Volume 2 catalog at an MSRP of $399.00. Mine has a BCR and has been running on my model railroads for almost 25 years.

Between 1918 and 1920, the United States Railroad Administration nationalized U.S. railroads to ensure efficient operation during World War 1. The USRA also designed standardized 0-6-0 and 0-8-0 switchers as well as other types of steam locomotives. A total of 1,375 0-8-0s were built to the USRA design during and after the war. The engine and tender weighed 364,000 pounds. The engines ran at 175 pounds-per-square-inch boiler pressure and developed 51,042 pounds of tractive force.

MELGAR

Mel. Great videos too thanks for sharing

@trumpettrain posted:

Baltimore & Annapolis SW9 at the point of a freight train.

Nice video Patrick liked all those Gondolas

@Don McErlean posted:

Hello folks on this fine SwSat !.  Great pictures and videos all, but Strap Hanger - "Sponge Bob" takes the cake!!

My input this morning is from the PRR - despite all the NYC photo's today.  Its the Lionel # 2295 0-6-0 tank switcher and I tried to capture it hard at work on the Leonardtown and Savannah moving freight in and around the yard.  Unfortunately my video camera work suffers from one hand on the camera and one on the ZW!. Well anyway, here she is working hard on this find Saturday.

Here she is moving a single box car into the yards, note this box car has just arrived in Savannah from the Galveston wharves.

Here is a short video of her in motion, please excuse the poor camera work.

Happy SwSat everyone...best wishes to all, have a great weekend.

Don

Don great pics and video from the McErlean Hobby Shop

@Strap Hanger posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday, everyone!  My little B6 just pulled a few cars out of the yard on its way to the industrial center of town. Fortunately,  SpongeBob was able to give the all clear signal down track -

I’m with Don on the Sponge Bob car o never knew they made one. Thanks for sharing

@Steam Crazy posted:

JHZ, thanks for getting us rollin’ again!

Your Yardmaster grabbed his camera and headed East today to the B&A Boston-Worcester line in Westborough, MA.  It’s 1950, many locomotives in NYC (owner of B&A)  livery have begun to appear on the B&A tracks.  NYC 0-4-0 no. 901 was filmed at this location with a work extra.

John

John I like that flat car with the Rail trucks on it nice video.

Guys I miss post here on Saturday mornings but I’ve been so busy Saturday mornings getting caught up from the winter. Hopefully next Saturday I’ll have something. Great contribute This week like John said. See you next SWSAT.

@lee drennen posted:

I’m with Don on the Sponge Bob car o never knew they made one. Thanks for sharing

Thanks guys.   I picked that up years ago and my kids loved it.  However, JHZ previously posted videos of a  whole sponge bob set, including a nice little engine.  I regret missing that when it first came out. 

Lee, thanks for the compliment on the flat car.  It’s another of my $5.00 train show   purchases.  The trucks are plastic ones that I replaced with metal trucks.  I’ve built about a dozen of these custom flatcars; it’s really been a fun project!

John

@Strap Hanger posted:

Thanks guys.   I picked that up years ago and my kids loved it.  However, JHZ previously posted videos of a  whole sponge bob set, including a nice little engine.  I regret missing that when it first came out.

I don't have that set - but I think I remember it being shown on #SWSAT before.  I had no idea there was an operating car with spongebob poking out. Now I am sorry I passed over it.

Lee - thanks for the complement on my post.  Glad you are back!

Don

@jhz563 posted:

I don't have that set - but I think I remember it being shown on #SWSAT before.  I had no idea there was an operating car with spongebob poking out. Now I am sorry I passed over it.

My bad, JHZ. I got you mixed up with Bryce.  Here is his post from a different thread -

https://ogrforum.com/...5#156701992070711365

What a sweet set!

Hey gang, can someone get this weekend's thread started? Tied up with a yard sale- thank you

@jhz563 posted:

Hey gang, can someone get this weekend's thread started? Tied up with a yard sale- thank you

I can John

A few from my collection…

A hostler fires up NYC Alco RS1 for the day’s run.  She’ll be heading up the daily local from Worcester MA to Framingham, MA.

Is there a better start up sound than found in this MTH model?  If yes, I want to hear it!

John