Switcher Saturday Mark II!, 10/24/2020

Hello fellow switcher fans!!  JHZ563 thanks for getting us rolling ( early ) this weekend!

Today the roving photographer has captured a variety of switchers working throughout the Free State Junction Railway network.   Have a most enjoyable weekend everyone AND

Be safe = Be well!

A Baldwin VO1000 exits Easterly Tunnel as a EMD Ma Pa SW 1 enters.

At Butler Junction

About to do some switching in the industrial section of town known a " Brewtown".

B&O SW9 takes on sand at the engine service facility.

B&O Dockside smokes it up on the Mountain Division.

MA & Pa SW1 on the Mountain Division

WM BL2 with a passenger train in tow.

Kennecott Copper doing some switch work.

WM BL2 does some switching.  

A French little switcher, home made model in brass of the 6300 type, produced in the fifties for freight yards. It is pulling two freight cars also made in brass, they are just painted and need some more finishing.

Have a nice switcher weekend, Daniel

Happy SWSat!

Here's my C&O 624 working the team tracks.

Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Bob

AC&Y and Penn Central crews work the interchange:

Tom

Engines are idle today because of The Haunted Classic soccer tournament this weekend.  

From another thread. K-Line, Pennsy B6 from 20 years ago.  Recent Lionel re-issue, did not use the 505 number.

My pictures of my model.

Yay SWSat is on this week! Great posts so far guys.

Here is my new to me Lima LMS 4T 0–6-0. It is acting as the station pilot today and moving around a Birdcage brake carriage.

Lima made some British and European O scale items in the 70’s. I have been picking some up over the last few months and rebuilding  and reworking it to my needs. It seems like people were buying it but not using it because most of what I am finding is NOS. The paint strips very fast and well with a little purple degreaser. I have a growing collection of 16ton mineral wagons that are losing their garish paint schemes.

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

A few too many photos of Burlington Junction working in Montgomery Illinois this week.

I have three locos that switch cars on my layout. An early model of a Lionel H9 with ERR upgrade and these two B6s switchers. K-line no.505 like MikeCT's with ERR upgrade and an early Legacy version no. 5244.

A hazy shade of winter:

Rusty

@Rusty Traque posted:

A hazy shade of winter:

Great photo

Rusty

Rusty: Your photo inspires a great scene on a layout.

@FRENCHTRAINS posted:

A French little switcher, home made model in brass of the 6300 type, produced in the fifties for freight yards. It is pulling two freight cars also made in brass, they are just painted and need some more finishing.

Have a nice switcher weekend, Daniel

Looks great Daniel!  Did you make that yourself?

An early SW1 switcher working at the sawmill on our layout.

@jhz563 posted:

Looks great Daniel!  Did you make that yourself?

Thanks, I have done the loco body with brass from a spare Fournereau chassis. The cars have been made by a more talented modeller than me and are totally scratch build from sheet of brass. He has made nine different models and he never finished them so except some pieces to resolder I just have painted them.

Very best, Daniel

C&O 0-8-0 switcher doing road engine duties and  Ma & Pa SW 1 on the Free State Junction Railway.

Hi SwSat Fans...well today on the Leonardtown and Savannah, we take you back to the early days of WWII when the Nazi submarines off the East Coast had a field day with our tankers coming up from the Gulf.  The tankers were back lighted from coastal lights as they was not yet any wartime orders to douse the lights.  Things got pretty bad before we were able to enforce wartime restrictions.  So before we extended pipelines to the East, our solution was to move the oil with "tank trains" and the railroads did a tremendous job of keeping the oil flowing to East coast refineries.

Here the "Allstate" RR is using L&S Trackage Rights to move a small tank train to a refinery near our port city.  Here is the full train view.

Here is the main motive power from the "Allstate" motor pool.  The 0-4-0 might be challenged in the mountains but here on the coastal plane, she makes an easy job of it.

The Allstate tankers, carrying the precious cargo of oil needed for our mechanized Army.

Naturally bringing up the rear, is the Allstate bay window caboose housing the train crew needed to keep a watch on the cargo and the functioning of the train. Rumor has it that the Army has 1 or 2 boys in that caboose as well just to make sure no saboteurs get the idea that this might be an easy target.

There she goes, safely moving on her way to her destination.

Happy SwSat everyone.  Hope you are having a great weekend.

Don

Hey folks, can someone pinch hit to start a new post for this weekend?  I have to work again