Switcher Saturday Mark II, 1/4/2020

Weaver, Pennsy A5, that has been modified to TMCC, electro-couplers and sound. 

Happy SWSat! Happy New Year to all!

Yesterday I picked up another K-line Plymouth switcher in New Haven livery. This one is a little unique because its fitted with a snow plow. I bought it from forum member @L.I.TRAIN Steve. I met him at his club TMB- Train Masters of Babylon. , and I got a guided tour of the layout and it is a beauty. They have an open house today and tomorrow if you are on LI and in the Farmingdale area, check it out.

Thanks Steve

Bob

PS- I have 6 of these little buggers now.

I found this nonpowered switcher recently that I've been looking for for some time. 

Love the MA & PA

Good morning fellow switcher fans!  Happy new year!  JHZ563 good luck with taking down the Christmas decorations!  Looks like you are making good use of that little switcher  Mike CT - love that A5!  I have a photo of my K line A5 up today as inspired by your photo.  

Today's lot of pics from the Free State Junction Railway includes GE 44 tonner, a Shay, A5, SW 9, GP9, and Docksider.  I weathered both the Docksider and A5.  Have a great week everyone!!

RCMCOBRA-  Love that Ma&Pa number 85!  Nice find!! Great video too!!

RSJB18 - got to love those little Plymouths!  Yours looks great!

Patrick - those scenes are amazing!

Williams Jersey Central switcher: a powerful puller and one fine runner:

Arnold

Happy New Year SWSAT lovers!  Here are some repeats inspired by previous posts today.

Charlie

On the PER the only motive power needed is an MTH PS3 SW1500 (and relief power as well).

Even the Varnish (the Dinner Train):

The oldest shifter in the yard, Lucky 13 was one of the first ones built when it arrived on the Pennsy in 1916.  The photographer got a couple of good photos of the big 0-4-0 moving a H21a hopper into position at the coal tower.  To the right, a N2sa is pulling out after topping off its tender with Pennsylvania Anthracite.

As the new decade arrives nearly all A5 engines were still active and working the complex street and tight industrial trackage of the Pennsy.  Because of the engines usefulness most of the 47 built lasted to the end of Pennsy steam in 1956/7.

The A5 is K-Line with ERR cruise, the H21a is Atlas, and the N2sa tender is 3rd rail.

         happy SWSat !!

                 having a K-line kinda day...

trumptrain posted:

RCMCOBRA-  Love that Ma&Pa number 85!  Nice find!! Great video too!!

RSJB18 - got to love those little Plymouths!  Yours looks great!

Thanks Pat love the weathering on the B & O and your photos look so realistic

Penn Central SW8 8616 (Atlas O) goes about its duties switching a couple of agri-businesses.

Tom

old 622 still going

Load of steel coils for new ford pickup trucks. Ford stamping plant

A little Lionel LionChief "docksider" assumes the mantle of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad No. 316, a remarkable engine that began life as an 0-8-0 at Patterson, NJ, in 1865, and ended its days at Newark, NJ, in 1946.  In 1865, she was a large and powerful locomotive built to challenge the Appalachians west of Cumberland; by 1946, she was a quaint anachronism switching the docks in New York City as an 0-6-0.  Her remarkable tale is told by Ed Bommer in his fascinating essay, "A Long and Dutiful Life, the life of B&O 316":

http://members.trainweb.com/be...co/bo26lifeof316.pdf

Still vital and well maintained in 1946, the B&O decided to discard her.  She was scrapped by Naporano in Newark, not far from where she was built.  She had been supplanted by generation upon generation of more powerful and glamorous locomotives, her tasks assumed ultimately by the likes of the glorious EM-1, then diesels.  Would that the B&O had thought to squirrel this gem away at Mount Clare - but they didn't.  Yea, how the mighty are fallen.  A few more decals, some Dulcote, a little weathering and she'll be as good as old - in O Gauge.

Happy New Year to all switcher aficionados and notably to JHZ563 who has done such a great job of carrying on SWSAT II.

In keeping with today’s theme, photo shows my Lionel Reading 0-6-0T switcher #1251 at the south curve of my 10’-by-5’ layout. Thanks to Rapid Transit Holmes for relating the history of B&O 316. Was it the prototype for Lionel’s model?

Photo by:

MELGAR

Still on the same theme, the Lionel 0-6-0 T switcher, here is mine in Lackawana scheme, not sure if it could be real or not. I bought it near the Scranton Hobby shop ten years ago, a special edition for the shop.

Have a nice weekend everybody,  Daniel

A little switching on the big layout......

Enjoy the weekend, folks!

Peter

Postwar Air Force switching duties. 

Bill T posted:

Postwar Air Force switching duties. 

Dangerous looking load you got there!

Great stuff this weekend everyone!  Thank you all for sharing

jhz563 posted:

Patrick - those scenes are amazing!

Thanks so much!