Switcher Saturday Mark II!, 10/03/2020

Switcher Saturday on the Seattle & Yakima RR. For this weekend a pair of Spokane Portland & Seattle RS-3's and a Western Pacific SW type yard switcher in action.

Since it is October...And Saturday.

@jhz563 posted:

Hello Switcher Saturday fans.  I hope this October finds you all well.   While 2020 continues to be a mess, Switcher Saturday continues on just like the yard goat crew as the Express rumbles by.

Switcher Saturday celebrates the smaller locomotives that do the big work of railroading.   Open to all gauges and scales, with an obviously heavy dose of 3 rail O gauge. 

Everybody plays nice, follows the ogr rules, and the thread never actually closes,  even after Saturday. 

For today's kickoff images we have K-Line collector's club Kennecott Copper mp-15, working near shiny town.  I swear when K-Line was in their heyday,  everybody had one of these. I always intended to add a horn and never got around to it. 

Stay safe everyone,  and keep those rails polished!

Like the Halloween theme especially The Munsters House

Yay!SWSat is on!

As usual we are off to a great start this AM. I love a good Halloween theme. To go along with it I am contributing a funny thing I found after a few months away from the apartment avoiding the pandemic that this spring was all over our neighborhood. 

I came back to find our Monstera plant in the window had sent out many  exploratory roots and found my paint stripped pre war Lionel S motor. I think this is a 153 and about 100 years old. Anyway the root grew right into the cab porthole window. I have been planning to repaint it but the raw metal look has grown on me. Maybe I’ll just polish it up and clearcoat it.  

The rock face I found in the park. I have no idea what that is about but fitting the Erie Halloween vibe. As does the plant name. The Monstera poked the S Motor in the eye. 

Have a great weekend. I can’t wait to see what you guys post. 

Happy SWSat!

No Halloween theme's around here. Plenty of switchers though

Happy SWSat to everyone.  Here's a look at my K-Line PRR MP-15.

Bought it at a swap meet some 20+ years ago, updated the headlight with an LED. 

A little more SWSat Halloween Theme MA & PA switcher in the back round of The Haunted House and Cemetery 

Good morning fellow switcher fans!  JHZ563 thanks for getting us rolling today

Today's submission is titled " Fall on the Free State Junction Railway.... switchers doing their thing."   Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!

  Be safe = Be well!

Santa Fe NW2 runs lite on the Mountain Division.  

The brakeman rides the step of the caboose as a B&O SW9 pushes the consist. 

B&O Docksider brings a 50 ton coal hopper and bobber caboose onto the Bollman bridge.

A Virginian Train Master is heading up a perishables train. 

A chance meeting: Santa Fe NW2 and FM Virginian  Train Master entering and exiting Easterly Tunnel on the mainlines as a 2-6-2 exits the elevated and a pair of Alco FA2 trundle across the Bollman bridge.

B&O SW9 and crew are the local Patsburg switch job today. 

Early morning light reveals the B&O Dockside working the Mountain Division. 

Later that morning the Dockside smokes it up in the fall air. 

Early evening just before the sun begins to set, the B&O Dockside brings three cabeese across the Bollman bridge on the Mountain Division.  

Switcher Caboose Hop

Today we feature CNJ GP7 No. 1524 with caboose in tow.  The 1524 prototype is a survivor; she has been cosmetically restored by the USRHS of NJ and is on display in their Whippany, NJ yard.

John

Happy Switcher Saturday. Today something from Finland. I photographed in the morning when a grain train arrived in the port of Loviisa and then moved the cars to a grain silo. The cars were Russian hoppers. The return train had empty grain hoppers and gondolas carrying Russian coal. The locomotives are Dv12 series and were built here in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s.

@Bill T posted:

Switcher Saturday on the Seattle & Yakima RR. For this weekend a pair of Spokane Portland & Seattle RS-3's and a Western Pacific SW type yard switcher in action.

You’re running my kind of RR! Keep up the good work. I have that SP&S RS3 on the point. Also Lionel’s NW-2 in yellow livery. 

I'll play - new tender for a 1938 brass kit locomotive:

Well guys...here I am again, late to the party.  OBTW  jhz563 I agree with your statement on the K-line MP-15 and their 2 motor S-2 as well, they were great engines, came in many liveries, and were relatively cheap.  Today, since I used my MP-15 last week, I switch to Marx.  Today is switchers (and matching cabooses) on parade.  Here you go.

All these are Marx 588 type, 4 wheel switchers, styled after the GE 70 ton type.  Here is #588, NYC in what Marx called a "maroon and yellow" livery (No idea if NYC ever used such a color scheme, I doubt it) and the Tuscan NYC caboose

Here is the more common black and white #588 NYC with a white / black NYC caboose.  Colors seem more likely although I don't think I ever saw a white caboose.

Here is the red and white (with white flag) Lehigh Valley #112 (Marx 588 "type") with matching LV caboose.

Here is the Rock Island # 799 (again that is number on loco but it is a Marx 588 "type") with matching caboose.  Caboose actually does say Rock Island with a RR herald, but like much of the RI in its later days it really needs repainting and maintenance ! 

Happy SwSat to all:

Don

Small Lionel Switcher

Switcher Saturday Night movie..... 0-8-0 shoves milk, barrels, and beer onto siding.  

Late to the party again

A brakeman watches as a GP9 prepares to couple up to a tank car:

Tom

@trumpettrain posted:

Switcher Saturday Night movie..... 0-8-0 shoves milk, barrels, and beer onto siding.  

Hey Patrick,  great video.  Is that C&O switcher an MTH or Lionel? 

@third rail posted:

Hey Patrick,  great video.  Is that C&O switcher an MTH or Lionel? 

Thanks so much @third rail!   The scale 0-8-0 switcher is a Lionel.

Montour (bike) Trail bridge, over an active line.  Lower trail, near McKeesport, PA.  

@trumpettrain posted:

Thanks so much @third rail!   The scale 0-8-0 switcher is a Lionel.

Cool!

I have a Virginian 080 from MTH  in PS2. Beautiful engine,  great sounds and crawls ever so slow,  but the side rod on the engineer's side keeps loosening and jamming into the wheels.  I've used loctite to secure the bolt but it keeps on working its way loose. 

@third rail posted:

Cool!

I have a Virginian 080 from MTH  in PS2. Beautiful engine,  great sounds and crawls ever so slow,  but the side rod on the engineer's side keeps loosening and jamming into the wheels.  I've used loctite to secure the bolt but it keeps on working its way loose. 

Other than the smoke unit failing within the warranty period, I've had no problems with my Lionel 0-8-0.  I bought the loco brand new back in the mid 2000s and it's been running strong ever since.  The replacement smoke unit put in by my repair guy is much better than the original and has worked well all these years.  I didn't bother to send it back to Lionel at the time because I didn't want the hassle of sending it in the mail and waiting who knows how long to have it returned.  My repair person did a super job!  

@trumpettrain posted:

Other than the smoke unit failing within the warranty period, I've had no problems with my Lionel 0-8-0.  I bought the loco brand new back in the mid 2000s and it's been running strong ever since.  The replacement smoke unit put in by my repair guy is much better than the original and has worked well all these years.  I didn't bother to send it back to Lionel at the time because I didn't want the hassle of sending it in the mail and waiting who knows how long to have it returned.  My repair person did a super job!  

Here's a picture of my Virginian switcher.