Switcher Saturday 5-15-21 !

I posted this short video before on another thread, but it also belongs here because it shows a switcher and is very entertaining, IMO:

Boston & Maine EMD GP-7 #1562 by Sunset Models. Two noteworthy features on this model; fixed pilots front and rear; electrical compartment at rear of long hood houses generator for head-end power in passenger service.

MELGAR

Happy SWSat!

Nothing new this week. Here's my FM H10-44 running light with just a cabin car in tow.

Have a great weekend.

Bob

Happy SWSAT everyone. Here’s my Lionel MPC GP7 with a manifest of Lionel Standard O cars I bought this winter it’s a oldie and out of date for these times but I enjoy running it. Have a great weekend.

Taking a little break from all the shuffling.  

Lee,

Nice looking Geep.  You know I have a soft spot for the worms.

Tom

Penn Central GP9 7180 (Atlas O) takes fuel as it prepares for its daily run:

Tom

Shippers Car Line #5 in captivity at Kansas City Railroad Museum, 1977:

Rusty

Somewhere on the East side of Detroit on a Saturday - Penn Central

@lee drennen posted:

Happy SWSAT everyone. Here’s my Lionel MPC GP7 with a manifest of Lionel Standard O cars I bought this winter it’s a oldie and out of date for these times but I enjoy running it. Have a great weekend.

Lee - Penn Central and Grand Trunk, you've got to re-use on Midwest Monday!!!

@RSJB18 posted:

Happy SWSat!

Nothing new this week. Here's my FM H10-44 running light with just a cabin car in tow.

Have a great weekend.

Bob

Beautiful!

Here  is my shot of the day! LOL Putting together a coal train for a long haul.

@DETROIT posted:

Lee - Penn Central and Grand Trunk, you've got to re-use on Midwest Monday!!!

Thanks Detroit great idea we’ll do

Mike g. that’s a beautiful BNSF switcher ready for duty, and others, great pictures snd great scenes and videos, RSJB18, Bob, nice diesel and a great scene, I know Don McErlean will put a great looking diesel on this thread sooner or later, it’s always a conversation piece with a bit of history, Happy Railroading Everyone, ha e a great weekend...

Looking awesome everybody!

Good morning fellow switcher fans!!  JHZ563 thanks for manning the switch and getting us out onto to the mainline today.   Wonderful pics, videos, and info. everyone!!  

The FSJR company photographer is under orders from the FSJR CEO to get as may pics as possible of the company switchers at work delivering and picking up products from existing shippers.  The CEO has begun a campaign to increase the number of online shippers.  The FSJR always delivers and picks up on time.  

A Pennsy A5 handles a short freight west bound on the mainline as a B&O SW9 works a siding.  

Switchers can go through the junkiest areas of any city.  Here a B&O SW9 exits a tunnel amid piles of scrap.  Leon, the conductor, rides the locomotive's front deck as Zeke, the brakeman, prepares to through the switch leading into the scrap yard for there are 4 gons of scrap to be pulled.  

Jake, the brakeman, chats with Otto, who leans against the pickup's front fender. This Pennsy 44 tonner idles as it waits  for a green signal.  This little loco is small, but mighty, and it always gets the job done!  

Pennsy 44 tonner runs light, as it has set out this reffer load of ice cream only 15 minutes ago.  Unloading crews have opened the car and are waiting for refrigerated trucks to show.  The first truck is due in 2 minutes.  Word has it that ice cream sales will be through the roof this summer and the FSJR switching fleet is proud to deliver this tasty treat!  

Western Maryland BL2 number 81 heads up a manifest  freight.  It's assisted by an ALCO FA2 ( not shown )

On the service track is a B&O GP9.  Shown behind the GP9 is a C&O 0-8-0. Chief Mechanical Officer  R.J. Smucker stands on the back deck of a B&O SW9 as it's coupled to a GP9.   MU lines/hoses need to be hooked up before this duo can be declared ready for work.  Over on the ready track a Pennsy A5 waits its' next assignment.

Engine service facility shows a Washington Terminal RS 1 and B&O GP9 being readied for their next assignment.  A Pennsy P5a modified, in the background, pulls a passenger trains that was made up by the WT RS1 about one hour and 20 minutes ago.  

An MTH, Imperial, PRR, 0-6-0 entering the yard with a coal train.

Wow great pictures everyone...makes for a great Saturday morning.  LeapinLarry you pictured my favorite Ford switcher and some really neat B&O Geeps and a UP Genset...cool.  Trumptrain, the engine service area is really well done with terrific detail, great modeling.  For me today, I have  a couple of engines.

First its the "last" of the pre-war Lionel die cast engines, the little 204 pulls his short tinplate train out of the depot and up the line.  This poor little fellow never made the catalogue and was never sold separately only in sets and his lifetime was cut short by the war, but he had both whistle and bell features of the time depending on which tender was used.  Die cast boiler, metal hand rails, and detailed cab interior.  The short but relatively heavy boiler with the weight centered over the drive wheels makes him a pretty good puller even at 80+ years old! Note: the cool thing is that by changing the tender to a postwar variant with Lionel pw couplers, I can pull any of my post war cars as well and he does a very fine job of that!!

A bit on the unusual side is a Japanese origin Alps (brand name) 0-4-0 switcher (simulated 2-4-0) marked for the NYC!  She is all sheet metal and lithographed and battery powered. She has rather unusual articulating (moves up and down) loop couplers front and rear.  Really made more for "street type" track rather than rail, but she runs well on two "D" batteries and has both forward and reverse.  Dates likely to 1960's I think.

Well that's it for me today.  I wish everyone a happy and healthy weekend.  Thanks to everyone for posting.

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Wow great pictures everyone...makes for a great Saturday morning.  LeapinLarry you pictured my favorite Ford switcher and some really neat B&O Geeps and a UP Genset...cool.  Trumptrain, the engine service area is really well done with terrific detail, great modeling.  For me today, I have  a couple of engines.

First its the "last" of the pre-war Lionel die cast engines, the little 204 pulls his short tinplate train out of the depot and up the line.  This poor little fellow never made the catalogue and was never sold separately only in sets and his lifetime was cut short by the war, but he had both whistle and bell features of the time depending on which tender was used.  Die cast boiler, metal hand rails, and detailed cab interior.  The short but relatively heavy boiler with the weight centered over the drive wheels makes him a pretty good puller even at 80+ years old! Note: the cool thing is that by changing the tender to a postwar variant with Lionel pw couplers, I can pull any of my post war cars as well and he does a very fine job of that!!

A bit on the unusual side is a Japanese origin Alps (brand name) 0-4-0 switcher (simulated 2-4-0) marked for the NYC!  She is all sheet metal and lithographed and battery powered. She has rather unusual articulating (moves up and down) loop couplers front and rear.  Really made more for "street type" track rather than rail, but she runs well on two "D" batteries and has both forward and reverse.  Dates likely to 1960's I think.

Well that's it for me today.  I wish everyone a happy and healthy weekend.  Thanks to everyone for posting.

Don

Don it’s always a treat to read about the history of the Vintage Engines thanks for sharing

Thanks Lee...nice to know that others like my postings...sorry to hear about your family loss, condolences and prayers for all.

Respectfully

Don

My little LIONEL LionChief+ New York Central A5 0-4-0 Switcher. She performs the track cleaning duties on my layout.

A  NYC heavy Mike makes a cameo appearance but the B&A 0-8-0 is the star of the show.

Sorry about the out of scale brakeman ( BTW the ice platform is looking for help)

MTH Kansas City Southern MP15DC  Switcher.

PS3

Full review/demo video on my Youtube channel.    The channel link is in my signature.

@RickO. Gotta love seeing switchers do what they do best.  Thank you for sharing,  I'll pass on the icehouse job though.

Really great looking switching area Rick.

(  not sure about the Scale of GODZILLA  THE  SWITCH  OPERATOR  though  ) 😉

@Don McErlean posted:

Thanks Lee...nice to know that others like my postings...sorry to hear about your family loss, condolences and prayers for all.

Respectfully

Don

Don it was Paul who had a family member who passed away  not me.

Canton Railroad General Office and photos of half the locomotive fleet.  Four total locos in the fleet.  The Canton Railroad, a Class 3 carrier,  has been in continuous operation since 1906 and is Baltimore's oldest railroad connecting with both CSX and Norfolk Southern.  ( These are photos taken by me during summer 2019 )

Wonderful contributions by all.  Thanks for making this a great SWSAT.

@Tom Densel posted:

Lee,

Nice looking Geep.  You know I have a soft spot for the worms.

Tom

I know you inspired me to buy this Engine thanks