Switcher Saturday Mark II!, 7/11/2020

Happy SWSat!

Tropical Storm Fay came up the east coast and passed over Long Island yesterday afternoon. No major damage to report but the MOW crew is out checking the ROW this morning.

Bob

                           happy "SWSAT" !!!        switcher smorgasbord...

             Marci's photo in Maumee...

                                        have a great weekend everyone !!

Good morning fellow switcher fans!  Here is a trio of switchers for today.  Have a wonderful and safe weekend everyone! 

Old picture, from the Great Allegheny Passage, bike trail

An engine and a couple cars recently painted from the shop.

          they all look great Jim !!  really like the AVR engine !

TALES OF THE DOCKSIDER

Good morning switcher fans.  The Docksider and her crew have today off, so we’ll cover other action in the Worcester area.

B&M Mogul 1455 (the prototype has survived, on display at the Danbury, CT, Railroad Museum) has brought a milk train down from Keene, NH.  B&M 0-8-0 switcher 613 has been dispatched to deliver the milk cars to a dairy in North Grafton, MA.  By Sunday morning the milk will be processed and delivered to stores and homes in Central MA.

I bet a lot of you folks remember home milk delivery like I do!

John

It is late 1949, and new meets old.

The B28 arrived in 1918 and a few of the 30 that Pennsy's had will make it to the end of steam.  While the 44 tonner first came out in 1940, the Pennsy did not buy their first of 46 until 1948.

Atlas B28 and WbB 44 tonner.

Well my layout is still under construction but perhaps you’ll still allow me to play! I love me a switcher engine and don’t plan on owning anything but.  This railroad runs NW2’s and RS3’s.

while building and wiring the layout, it’s important to still be able to run trains!!!

Too much light from the window, but best I can do. Nice photos from you guys this week. Thanks for sharing.

Looking good everybody!

While on vacation with the family a couple weeks ago, I made it to Dale's Trains in Norfolk VA.  Really nice place, really nice people!  I hope you don't mind pictures with the price tags, but it turns out there's a small fleet of pre-war steam switchers hiding in the store if you look for a while. 

Switcher action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

It's 1953, the N&W is test driving a C&O  0-8-0 on a road freight as a Ma & Pa SW1 passes on a parallel track with it's train.   Nothing like coal smoke and diesel fumes!