Switcher Saturday Aug 15, 15 is on!

Silver Lake,thank you for starting this thread each week. It is one of my favorites.

Brad

Sorry guys, I messed up this morning and posted the regular Switcher Saturday in the wrong forum:

https://ogrforum.com/t...saturday-2015-aug-15

I'm hoping the forum moderators move it soon, again, sorry for the confusion!

now there's an idea for O Gauge.tiny little things.

It is not usually me it is Murname who starts this usually (I do really enjoy it though). I started it this week because there was an accidental crossed posting that I didn't notice. All props to Murname. 

Hi Murnane the link does not work for me so will post here.

One 3 rail the other On-30

Silver Lake love those little critters , would be great if Bachmann or someone else did them as the motors now a days are quite small.

Just like this one

James

.have a great Saturday guys...off to work.

Real (1:1 scale) switcher photos this week.  My paternal grandfather was an engineer on the Jersey Central Railroad (CNJ), and as you can see in the two photos below, was employed during the "transition" era from steam to diesel power.

Here he is pictured in the cab of CNJ steam switcher 0-6-0 #107 taking on some water in Ashley, PA...

and here is is a few years later standing in front (photo right) of a pair of ALCo RSD4 CNJ diesel road switchers in Wilkes-Barre, PA...

RMT BNSF Beep

    Bill T.

Durango & Silverton AGE 98 ton Diesel built by U.S. steel from GE parts. #11, in Silverton on 19 July 2015. 

All right! It's SWSAT time, BABY!!!

Rich: So you boinked it, did you?

For this week's model pics, here's one of the Frisco switchers I have on hand waiting its turn to be weathered/etc...

 (Scale: HO)

And for this week's Proto Pics, more Frisco!!

Freshly shopped Baldwin VO1000 #227, Springfield, MO, 5/63...

And VO1000 237 passing through the Katy yard (their stone roundhouse in the background) in Kansas City during the early 1960s...

All fer now!!!

Andre

yes, I boinked it, I boinked it bad!

I'm sorry for all the confusion and if anyone's pictures got deleted!

Here are the pictures I had uploaded on the other thread, which has been removed...

And...since I boinked it so bad, I thought I'd do something special, so here's a little iMovie I created with some of the pictures I've uploaded to SwitcherSaturday over the last 6 months or so!

Best...Rich

I love the EMD 40.

Rich:

We all boink it on things... no biggie... you'll be back with a vengeance next Saturday!

Silver Lake:

Those EMD Model 40's are so neat.  Basically an NW2 cab sitting on a two axle frame w/motors! 

Steamer:

Nice steam engine photos! 

JoeA:

Really like that RS-3 and crew pic for some reason.  Sort of depicts Classic Railroading at its best!

CNJ 3676/Bob:

Superb Baldwin's!  I'm going to be in NJ in late September, where might this line be located?  I have not heard a Baldwin switcher "in the flesh" since about 1972.

Brother Love/Malcolm:

Excellent work on that little EMD Model 40!

Good pics everybody... keep 'em comin'!!

CNJ 3676/Bob:

NEVERMIND!! If I had half a brain I could understand "Bridgeport, NJ" a bit better!!

Looks like it would be about a 2 hour drive from the area in NJ I will be located at in September.

Hm.

EDIT: Update!

Cleared it with the wife and she's okay with taking a longer trip to WV and catch the SMS operation along the way.  (After all, it IS her vacation, too.) Wow... first time I will hear/smell Baldwin's since 1970-1972!

Hi, Andre.

Agreed regarding the Baldwin sound...I could sit there and listen to them all day. To tide you over, here's a Penn Rail video featuring the 9069 recorded from both in the cab and on the ground.

Enjoy,

Bob

Thanks Bob!

BTW, you DO realize that the SMS B&O 412 is a VO1000... right? Man, like I said, I haven't been on a VO1000, or heard one, or smelled one, since the last of the Frisco's VO's went to diesel heaven in 1972.

Those SMS units appear to be in EXCELLENT condition.  Gonna' be great to be around so many Baldwin's!!

Andre

SWSAT - gee whiz I almost forgot!

While traveling on business this week, I went through Tamaqua, PA (Schuylkill County) and happened upon these gems displayed near the Tamaqua Station.

Safe Harbor is a dam and power plant on the Susquehanna River near Conestoga PA in southern Lancaster County. I'm not sure how this Plymouth ended up in Tamaqua.

This Porter Fireless (it drew it's steam from the generating plant that it served; no firebox) worked most of it's life in Mobile, at Chickasaw Steam Plant, Alabama Power Company. My father was a Foreman there, and I crawled all over it in the 1950's (no photos of that, unfortunately) when it was not in use (with his supervision, of course).

I thought that it had been scrapped years ago, but it turned up in the Birmingham area,

about 270 miles to the north of Mobile, restored and on display. I took these photos about 3 years ago.

Very strange that "my" little 0-4-0 would still be around. 

Hi, Andre.

The 412 is a former United States Navy locomotive which served on the Navy's NWS Earle Railroad in New Jersey. Upon retirement, the Navy donated the unit to the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey with the stipulation any indication of its previous ownership by a government entity be removed. The society subsequently elected to repaint the unit as a Baltimore & Ohio locomotive to represent B&O's freight operations within the state. The URHS later leased what was then an inoperable 412 to SMS. The Baldwin master magicians of SMS went to work and returned the unit to fully serviceable status. Posted below is a picture of the unit during its tenure with the Navy at the head of an excursion train in May 1981.

Bob

Late last week I picked up a Lionel 624 C&O NW2 Switcher for a fantastic price. It's in excellent condition though the wheel antenna spire was broken, which I didn't realize till I received it (have a replacement on order). Here it joins a 6220 and 6250 already in the fleet. It's amazing to see how quality dropped after this generation of switcher - more so IMO than any other model in the postwar era...

Postwar switchers

Early MTH Premiere item from around 1994/95

My 2 MTH Baldwins

I live right by the Earle Navy tracks. Saw the old Baldwins alot. Have not seen the new switcher yet. I hear it alot though.

Yea!..Switcher Saturday!...one of my favorite topic threads!...

Almost forgot i took these pix on vacation in Maine a few years ago...

Howard...

here is my custom painted (jeff sohn) SW2 at work.