Switcher Saturday - September 30, 2023

My Penn Central work train now has a New York Centeral Legacy Geep for power…..

Have a great and safe weekend, folks!

Peter

Good Morning SWSAT people. Mel thanks for kicking us off this morning. Here’s some of my Lionel NW2 I’ve collected over the years enjoy your weekend.

Happy Saturday SWSAT Folks. I see some good looking switchers there.
Today I’m posting a NJT NW-2 in honor of the 40th anniversary of NJT. Here is NJT #500 at the point of a work train  

Greetings, SwSat nation!  Mel, you got us rolling with a good head of steam!  I’m off to a train show this morning, so a trip to the archives is in order.  Maybe I’ll find a new switcher to show next Saturday!

There’s a lot of interest among the faithful about Beeps, so I decided to post my NYC model no. 5903 today.  She is shown double heading (real railroaders, in a recent post, said they never heard the term “lash up”) with “Docksider” star NYC shop switcher X8688.

No. 5903 is equipped with an ERR sound kit.  I bought the kit with the intention of installing it in a Williams engine, but soon realized it was “over my head”.  The ERR instructions, however, had detailed instructions on a Beep installation (as an example) so I was able follow it and add it to my engine successfully.  Also note how painting the “chrome” handrails on the Beep really improves it’s appearance.

John

Happy last day of September Switcher Saturday. Our newest switcher still dominates the rails for this week  -

Amazing how busy we get running our families around to various events on the weekends!

CN 70 switcher moving more grain cars in anticipation for the Fall harvest.

Happy SwSat everyone!

Happy SWSat!

Thanks for getting us started this week Mel. Crazy weather here on LI yesterday. We had about 5" of rain in 12 hours. Lot's of street flooding, the NYC Subways were underwater. Crazy day!

I'm also having fun running my latest.
Penn Central SW-1200 (Lionel Legacy/ BT), has been busy in the yards and on locals shifting cars. The crew's first job this week was to drop a Merchant's Despatch Lines refer at the factory in Rochester NY, for some repairs. Here we see 9020 dropping the car for pick up by the MDT shop switcher.

The MDT shop switcher # 15 is also a EMD SW. This one is a SW-8/9 by MTH with loco-sound, and manual couplers. I bought this from Trainz a couple years ago. It runs well but stalls on a switch or two. I have to swap the single roller pickups for dual roller.

While # 15 took care of business, 9020 headed back to the yard to grab a REA load and an empty gondola.

Heading out of town back to the interchange.

Finally, after a hard day's work, the crew heads back to tie down and hit the bar for a few cold ones!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Bob

Good morning SWSAT crew!

This morning we find Penn Central RS-11 7608 (Lionel) spotting a hopper full of coal at a customers siding:

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Tom

@Ron045 posted:

My latest custom-made engine is finally finished.  At Atlas SW9 converted to an SW1200 with lots of extra details.

Scale Pilots

Scratch built handrails

Custom Horns

Window frames

Sun Shades

Custom paint and decals to match a one of a kind prototype.

I modeled the SMS Railroad SW1200 #104. DeadRail with Blunami.

A clinic in model railroad custom painting and detailing, Ron. Superb! And looks like you didn’t drop anything!

This is the result of Ron045 painting and detailing the exact same B&M 44 tonner that Mel opened with. Thanks for cranking it up, Mel.

Happy Switcher Saturday!

Early Railking 0-6-0 PRR switcher w/PS-2, Still runs great!

Mel, Love that B&M 44 tonner.

Boston & Maine 44 tonner 115 brings 2 Boston & Maine “PURE FRESH POND ICE COMPANY” woodside reefers into the yard on their way home to Brookline.

The 44 tonner is by MTH. It has had all traction tires removed as have all my MTH 44 tonners. This eliminates loss of ground and unwanted stalling.

The B&M reefers are Crown Model Products. The B&M Woodside caboose is MTH.

When would these cars likely have been retired from Pond Ice Service?

Every time @MELGAR posts his 44-ton switcher, I have to post the one I photographed down at the Savannah Roundhouse Museum from 2011. The Western Maryland #76 is my only 44-ton switcher.

Charlie

Concord & Claremont RR #119

  MTH 20-20467-1 from 2015 Volume 1

Great posts guys as always guys. Bob is right, it was crazy with the rain here yesterday. Thanks for getting us started Mel. From the Oyster Bay yard…

Andy

Howdy, folks. As promised two weeks ago, here is my Lionel postwar #617 NW2. This is quite hard to find these days as it was only produced one year as part of a set. 1964, I think? It had added trim pieces which were not commonly used by Lionel at that point and unlike the common and o/w identical #616 ATSF.
I added the antennae, bell and horn using repro parts.

The other pics here are from our visit this week to Yosemite National Park. Just south of the park entrance on SR 41, the “Yosemite Mountain  Sugar Pine” excursion railway is a fun place. We didn’t get to ride the train since our stop didn’t coincide with any runs that day. Still fun to see. And me with a 44-tonner!  The #15 Shay was in the barn so all I could get was a front shot.

Oh, and me with El Capitan in Yosemite Valley behind yesterday morning  

Stay dry, East Coast switcher friends.

WTG Melgar great start! Here is a 0-8-0 AHM/Rivarossi sitting on a siding awaiting to go in the shop.

It is late 1949, and a couple of shifters are working the yard.  The yard foreman told his crews not to speak too loudly around the C1, 'Big Daddy'.  He did not want the big engine to know its days are numbered.  Unfortunately, the BS10 heard about it in the shop and told the old workhorse "Hey boomer, you're gonna be scape metal soon."  Big Daddy left that day and was not seen again.

The C1 is Weaver, the Baldwin Switcher 1000 hp (VO-1000) is MTH.

Have to resort to a file video.........can't ignore switcher Saturday.........

......closing down summer and preparing to enter the winter ......have to repair the lawnmower ,  replace light switches ,  worked on the fireplace insert , Judy wants a new vanity top for one of the bathrooms , etc. , etc.