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Happy SWSat Everyone!

Covering the yards for Rich this week. I hope all of the soccer and lacrosse tournaments are over soon. 

If you've got a switcher, yard goat, speeder, track-mobile then you've come to the right place. Steam, diesel, electric, we're not picky so feel free to post them here.

Wishing everyone a Happy Fathers Day tomorrow as well.

This week the RSJ&B has another new 0-4-0 Docksider to show off. After Andy and Tom were discussing them a few weeks back I discovered another MTH tank on line. Well.....right after I said I wasn't going to buy it I hit the bid button.........

Bob

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Yay! Bob got SWSat rolling today! And there is  another C16 kicking cars around!

First up a mystery at NYSME has been solved. One of the artifacts that the society owns had lost its history somehow over the years. Members had forgotten where this headlight had come from. After several months of several members searching we found the answer and a picture of the provinance. This headlight on the wall is from an Erie 0-6-0.

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Another NYSME 2rail Oscale switcher is this Rahway 70 tonner in the Hoboken area of the layout that is undergoing renovations and renewal with an eye toward better operations.

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Last a sad image of one of the two ex BAR BL2s now parked in the weeds that Saratoga and North Creek were operating until the beginning of April. There has been an end of service due to a conflict with the county.

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Have a great weekend everyone. For Fathers Day I am timing a swim meet. 

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Hi Bob,

  Thanks for starting us off this week.

 Congratulations and hope you enjoy your newest locomotive. 

Since you started off with Dockside locomotives, I'll show a comparison between my Right-of-Way Dockside and my MTH Dockside. 

Next week, I'll be hosting Switcher Saturday and I'll have some news to report. 

Tom 

 

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Thanks Tom. I remember when you picked up your ROW last year. I had found another one for sale but the price was a bit steep for my blood (or the CEO's I should say ). Much more detailed than the MTH models.

Andy- those BL-2's need to run! I hope they settle their differences. It would be a shame to see them rot away after being restored. Neat story about the head lamp.

As promised .... here are some new photos of switchers at work on the Free State Junction Railway in and around Patsburg, Maryland.   It's an all B and O switcher day here on the FSJR.  We have a small B and O Plymouth and a Docksider working at the logging camp on the Mountain Division.    Meanwhile an EMD SW nine is doing duty in Lower Patsburg.

Bob - thanks for firing up the thread and getting us rolling today.   I hope that BL two gets rolling soon.  Such a beautiful locomotive that should be running not parked in the weeds.

Brian - you get the award for coming up with great and unusual real railroad photos.  LOVE em

Rich - I hope you are enjoying your Saturday.

Tom - I love that photo/poster of the Docksider at the steel mill.  Must be Bethleham Steel's Sparrows Point Plant just outside Baltimore City.   Can't wait for your news next week

Johann - that sure is one handsome looking BLtwo. IMG_6858IMG_6860IMG_6852IMG_6846IMG_6841IMG_6854IMG_6870IMG_6871IMG_6890IMG_6883IMG_6885IMG_6888IMG_6788IMG_6779IMG_6781IMG_6783IMG_6786IMG_6785IMG_6787IMG_6790IMG_6791IMG_6793IMG_6794Very nice weathering job Johann.

In the eleventh photo from the top - the guy sitting on the john is experiencing a new laxative .... prompted by the steam locomotive thundering behind the outhouse. :-) 

Again Happy Fathers Day to all of you dads.

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Hi Folks.

Another great SWSat this week!

Thanks for making my pinch yard master duties so easy.

Happy Fathers Day to all the dad's out there. Special shout out to Rich too.

Bob

This is not photoshopped. VW actually built these custom micro buses for track work

Some interesting info here

(Gotta scroll down a few pages)

 

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Steamer posted:

hmmmm....wonder if the wife would let me do that to her Ghia?

  All of us know the answer to that one!!  Cool she has one!  There was a kid in high school who had one.  This was around 1972-74.  I don't know what year it was.

 

Bob, So I see form the Web site this was a Long Island thing!  Low cost, but effective!!  I knew a family who had one when I was growing up!  Basic family transportation, not a hippy variety!!  

Mark Boyce posted:
Steamer posted:

hmmmm....wonder if the wife would let me do that to her Ghia?

  All of us know the answer to that one!!  Cool she has one!  There was a kid in high school who had one.  This was around 1972-74.  I don't know what year it was.

 

Bob, So I see form the Web site this was a Long Island thing!  Low cost, but effective!!  I knew a family who had one when I was growing up!  Basic family transportation, not a hippy variety!!  

Mark- I found the pictures searching for LIRR ROW equipment. I never saw one in person but they are pretty cool. When I started my current job at the University, we had a '68 bus with the full camper hard top that we used as a work van. It was in such bad shape that they painted it fire engine red. It was quite a sight to behold.

PS- these were not made for 6'5" humans 

LI- Train- I guess some trains just miss Jamaica.

Bob

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Bob, triple heading docksiders and VW track maintenance vehicles.  Great job filling in for Rich.

Andy if the S&NC doesn't get things worked out to continue operations soon I hope they can sell those BL2s to some other tourist road.  It would be shame to see two operating BL2s waste away.

Johan, is that an MTH BL2?  I know you've weathered it but the detailing and paint scheme seems better detailed than I remember on the MTH.

As for the LIRR switcher in the water; that trains has been reported as "on time" by the LIRR.

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