Switcher Saturday 5/8/21

Happy SWSat!

I was just about to start the thread for you @jhz563. Glad I checked before posting.

Here's the latest addition to the fleet. Williams PRR 44 ton # 9331.

Been wanting one of these for a while and Trainland is running a great deal right now so I decided to take the plunge finally.

I post some more photos on the layout later.

Have a great weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all the moms.

Bob

Happy Switcher Saturday!

Weaver, Pennsy A5.

Happy Saturday! Have a great weekend everyone! And remember Mom!

The track cleaning train.......

I've been waiting all week to show these!

Happy SWSat......have a safe and great weekend folks.......

Peter

@RSJB18, good morning Bob. Usually I draft the post the night before and just hit publish on Saturday morning.   That didn't happen last night and this morning I was making breakfast for everyone and got a little behind.   Thanks for be ready to cover for me!

@jhz563 posted:

@RSJB18, good morning Bob. Usually I draft the post the night before and just hit publish on Saturday morning.   That didn't happen last night and this morning I was making breakfast for everyone and got a little behind.   Thanks for be ready to cover for me!

No worries. I'm usually not up too early but I had to drive my son to HS for his SAT exam this morning.

Happy SWSAT!

Nothing new this week.  I'm spending time with my wife and mom today!  Here is one from the archives.

Tom

Happy SWSAT everyone. Sorry for the long absence but it’s Spring I’ve been so busy with the garden and Hobby Farm.so it rained this morning so no outside work today so I figured I would take some pics and a video for SWSAT.   Here’s my Weaver RS3 with a manifest of AHM, All Nations and Atlas O cars. All the pics you guys are posting looks awesome this morning. Have a great weekend.

Great pictures everyone!

Peter who makes the cars in your track cleaning train?

Great photos, everyone! Lee, you just answered a question I was about to ask- I need to find a Weaver RS3 in Lackawanna livery. It looks like yours is a good runner.

Wow, it’s Switcher Saturday already, where does time go, it surely flies... Great pictures everyone. Have a great weekend, tell your moms and wives Happy Mother’s Day.. They are very special ladies. Happy Railroading Everyone

An RMT “Bang” (Alco S2) switcher on a caboose hop (also by RMT) heads to the yard.

Inaugural run

Bob

Good afternoon fellow switcher fans!!  Wonderful pics and videos everyone!

Today on the FSJR the company photographer has been busy out and about the FSJR system snapping photos of switchers in action.  Have a terrific weekend everyone! Honor your Mom's for Moms are very special!!   Be safe = Be well!

Washington Terminal RS 1 and  Western Maryland BL2 are the headend power for their respective trains.

BL2 number 81 rounds the bend running lite.

It's all about the B&O as SW 9 does some switching leaving the caboose on a siding.

The welcoming committee of Patsburg, standing in front of the town trash truck, are not even aware of the switching operation taking place as a Baltimore & Annapolis SW9 is about to couple to a WM boxcar.  Brakeman Barney Stiles is standing in the center of Patsburg Ave. about to do his thing as the engine moves forward.

B&O 594 is about to couple to an all B&O cut of cars. Brakeman Corky Rodgers stands by.

Up on the Mountain Division SW1 of the MA & PA has just set out a loaded flat car of logs.  

@RSJB18 posted:

Happy SWSat!

I was just about to start the thread for you @jhz563. Glad I checked before posting.

Here's the latest addition to the fleet. Williams PRR 44 ton # 9331.

Been wanting one of these for a while and Trainland is running a great deal right now so I decided to take the plunge finally.

I post some more photos on the layout later.

Have a great weekend and Happy Mother's Day to all the moms.

Bob

Congratulations on your new 44 tonner Bob!  I have the same switcher in Pennsy livery and also bought it from Trainland several years ago.  It's one of the locomotives primarily assigned to the FSJR Mountain Division.   It continues to run great and I've never had a problem with it.  Do BE CAREFUL in handling this critter for the handrails are most delicate and break easily.  Have fun and enjoy!!

@trumpettrain posted:

Do BE CAREFUL in handling this critter for the handrails are most delicate and break easily.  Have fun and enjoy!!

Thanks Patrick. I have heard that about the rails. I was extra careful taking it out of the styrofoam.

Bob, here’s another tip on your new 44 tonner.  You probably noticed it tends to start and stop abruptly.  Couple a relatively heavy train behind it; you’ll find smooth starts and stops are much easier.

John

TALES OF THE DOCKSIDER

Your Yardmaster got an earful of words he can’t post about shop switcher X-8688 and her crew getting another Saturday off, so she is on duty today switching the scrap yard.  Towering over X-8688 is a venerable Lionel 282R Gantry Crane, which has run reliably since 1958.

I’m sure there will be dissenters out there, but - in my opinion- the crane is the greatest accessory ever produced by Lionel.  Not only is it interesting to watch, it takes some practice and skill to manipulate the operating levers and run it smoothly.  I find it far more satisfying than just pushing a button.

I’m enjoying all your posts as usual and hope you guys will be able to spend a nice day with Mom tomorrow!

John

Hello SwSat Fans...bit late in the day for my posting, but too much activity today to get it much earlier.  Hope everyone is ready for Mother's Day tomorrow.

First, lots of folks have talked about these Williams 44 tonners, so here is another one, working Small Town loop on the Leonardtown and Savannah, with a refer full of Blue Bell Ice Cream !  I agree with everyone else these are great little engines especially on tight radius trackage.

Then, we have a problem down on the Savannah Wharf.  Seems like the Army and the Air Force can't decide who has the right of way...the MP's are not going to be much help sorting that out but they will keep the crews separated until the dispatcher gets it fixed .

Well Happy SwSat everyone...Best wishes to all on Mother's Day!

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Hello SwSat Fans...bit late in the day for my posting, but too much activity today to get it much earlier.  Hope everyone is ready for Mother's Day tomorrow.

First, lots of folks have talked about these Williams 44 tonners, so here is another one, working Small Town loop on the Leonardtown and Savannah, with a refer full of Blue Bell Ice Cream !  I agree with everyone else these are great little engines especially on tight radius trackage.

Then, we have a problem down on the Savannah Wharf.  Seems like the Army and the Air Force can't decide who has the right of way...the MP's are not going to be much help sorting that out but they will keep the crews separated until the dispatcher gets it fixed .

Well Happy SwSat everyone...Best wishes to all on Mother's Day!

Don

Don. Your never to late for SWSAT. Nice pics I would love to see some highlights of that jeep posted on another forum “Hint Hint”.

@Steam Crazy posted:

TALES OF THE DOCKSIDER

Your Yardmaster got an earful of words he can’t post about shop switcher X-8688 and her crew getting another Saturday off, so she is on duty today switching the scrap yard.  Towering over X-8688 is a venerable Lionel 282R Gantry Crane, which has run reliably since 1958.

I’m sure there will be dissenters out there, but - in my opinion- the crane is the greatest accessory ever produced by Lionel.  Not only is it interesting to watch, it takes some practice and skill to manipulate the operating levers and run it smoothly.  I find it far more satisfying than just pushing a button.

I’m enjoying all your posts as usual and hope you guys will be able to spend a nice day with Mom tomorrow!

John

John nice pic really like that crane

@trumpettrain posted:

Good afternoon fellow switcher fans!!  Wonderful pics and videos everyone!

Today on the FSJR the company photographer has been busy out and about the FSJR system snapping photos of switchers in action.  Have a terrific weekend everyone! Honor your Mom's for Moms are very special!!   Be safe = Be well!

Washington Terminal RS 1 and  Western Maryland BL2 are the headend power for their respective trains.

BL2 number 81 rounds the bend running lite.

It's all about the B&O as SW 9 does some switching leaving the caboose on a siding.

The welcoming committee of Patsburg, standing in front of the town trash truck, are not even aware of the switching operation taking place as a Baltimore & Annapolis SW9 is about to couple to a WM boxcar.  Brakeman Barney Stiles is standing in the center of Patsburg Ave. about to do his thing as the engine moves forward.

B&O 594 is about to couple to an all B&O cut of cars. Brakeman Corky Rodgers stands by.

Up on the Mountain Division SW1 of the MA & PA has just set out a loaded flat car of logs.  

Well said Patrick about our Mothers  and awesome pics today.

@RSJB18 posted:

Inaugural run

Bob

Bob. Thanks for the highlights and the run. Sounds good runs smooth

@leapinlarry posted:

Wow, it’s Switcher Saturday already, where does time go, it surely flies... Great pictures everyone. Have a great weekend, tell your moms and wives Happy Mother’s Day.. They are very special ladies. Happy Railroading Everyone

Nice pics Larry as always

@Tom Densel posted:

Happy SWSAT!

Nothing new this week.  I'm spending time with my wife and mom today!  Here is one from the archives.

Tom

Tom another one of your best.

@Artie-DL&W posted:

Great photos, everyone! Lee, you just answered a question I was about to ask- I need to find a Weaver RS3 in Lackawanna livery. It looks like yours is a good runner.

Artie be careful buying these especially from the Internet. They have there troubles there’s post here on the forum you can read about them.

@lee drennen posted:

Tom another one of your best.

Thanks, Lee.

Tom

@mike g. posted:

Great pictures everyone!

Peter who makes the cars in your track cleaning train?

Mike....in order.....Centerline, the next two are from Northeast Trains, Peabody MA. The boxcar is from MNP out of Tidewater (it came with a RailKing Santa Fe Box car which I switched to New Haven).

Peter

Ever since my RK ps2 NW-2 Pennsy died I felt the only reasonable  🤔😉 thing to do would be to buy a couple of the proto 3 s . 

@Putnam Division posted:

The track cleaning train.......

I've been waiting all week to show these!

Happy SWSat......have a safe and great weekend folks.......

Peter

Peter. Nice track cleaner

@DETROIT posted:

Detroit. I really like those colors and the tank car.

@Mike CT posted:

Weaver, Pennsy A5.

Mike. Some nice switchers l like that load of farmalls

@Putnam Division posted:

The track cleaning train.......

I've been waiting all week to show these!

Happy SWSat......have a safe and great weekend folks.......

Peter

Peter. Track cleaner runs great thanks for sharing.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Ever since my RK ps2 NW-2 Pennsy died I felt the only reasonable  🤔😉 thing to do would be to buy a couple of the proto 3 s .

I find your reasoning to be reasonably reasonable

Very nice pair of locos.

Bob

It's the only kind of reasoning left Bob.

( only model railroaders could grasp  🚂)

Great photos everyone and wonderful stories!

Peter, thanks for the information about the track cleaning cars!

@trumpettrain posted:

Good afternoon fellow switcher fans!!  Wonderful pics and videos everyone!

Today on the FSJR the company photographer has been busy out and about the FSJR system snapping photos of switchers in action.  Have a terrific weekend everyone! Honor your Mom's for Moms are very special!!   Be safe = Be well!

Washington Terminal RS 1 and  Western Maryland BL2 are the headend power for their respective trains.

BL2 number 81 rounds the bend running lite.

It's all about the B&O as SW 9 does some switching leaving the caboose on a siding.

The welcoming committee of Patsburg, standing in front of the town trash truck, are not even aware of the switching operation taking place as a Baltimore & Annapolis SW9 is about to couple to a WM boxcar.  Brakeman Barney Stiles is standing in the center of Patsburg Ave. about to do his thing as the engine moves forward.

B&O 594 is about to couple to an all B&O cut of cars. Brakeman Corky Rodgers stands by.

Up on the Mountain Division SW1 of the MA & PA has just set out a loaded flat car of logs.  

Patrick I doubt that I have been seeing your photos and naratives as long as many of the forumites , but I have totally enjoyed them . 🤓

If you have documented them , I think the collection would make quite a great model railroading book. 😉