Switcher Saturday 12-11-21

Happy SWSAT everyone!

Penn Central GP9 7180 (Atlas O) spots a tan car at an agri-business this morning:

Tom

Happy Switcher Sat everyone!  Here is my 256 repro making its way around our Christmas tree -

Keeping with the holiday theme, here is the Toymaker Santa Express conducting switching duties with several holiday-themed freight cars.  Happy holidays everyone!

JHZ thanks for kicking off SWSAT again.  It's always one of my must sees.  The tin can city looks great!

@coach joe posted:

JHZ thanks for kicking off SWSAT again.  It's always one of my must sees.  The tin can city looks great!

Thanks Joe!  They are amazing lithograph cookie tins.  Usually can be picked up for about 10 or 12 bucks a piece up.

Here's a picture from the living room I used in the tinplate thread.  The cookie tin houses are great for the kids to rearrange over and over again,  and I don't upset if they get dinged up.

I always thought the tinplate 2-4-2 steamers were meant to represent something bigger so I generally don't think of them as Switchers, but tinplate in particular is left to the imagination. 

Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone. 

Switcher moving barrels to our Brewery.

Good morning all!  A trip to the archives for oldies but goodies is in order because I’m off to my grandson’s fourth birthday party.  He’s receiving his first train set, a battery powered Lionel Polar Express, from Grandpa and Grandma!

The oldest goodies in my collection are pictured below.  The 0-6-0 switcher is 1938 vintage American Flyer and the freight cars are prewar Lionel with postwar trucks.  Fear not, purists, I have the original trucks which can be easily be reinstalled!

John

Happy SWSat!

Lot's of Christmas layouts up and running. Finishing our tree today so more trains to follow!

This is my Lionel PWC B6 0-6-0 rounding the curve. The guys in the yard set up a tree in an empty gondola heading to the car shop for repair.

Have a great weekend.

Bob

Well great pictures everyone.  Wife and I move our base of operations to Georgia next week, so our "Train round the Tree" will have to wait to be set up in Savannah...Oh Well! Today I have a rather new switcher, its the Lionel 0--6-0 tank switcher that dates from about 2019

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all

Don

Here is  a little video of the #2295 in action.  Sorry meant this to go with earlier post.

Don

44 tonner getting the job done!

Peter

....and an 0-4-0 switcher moving the Reindeer Train.....

Peter

@Putnam Division posted:

44 tonner getting the job done!

Peter

That's impressive Peter. Didn't think a 44 could pull all those cars.

@RSJB18 posted:

That's impressive Peter. Didn't think a 44 could pull all those cars.

I recently watched an old Pop Eye cartoon......spinach......kidding aside..... compact & heavy with traction tires....a good combination.....

Peter

Good afternoon switcher fans!  Love what you all have posted so far! ... wonderful holiday themed and non holiday themed content   JHZ563 got to  love those cookie tin houses  ... very whimsical ... as is your tin plate train running around the tree  Also thank you for notching out the throttle and getting us rolling today

In staying on the holiday themed track  ( pun intended ) here are some fresh shots ( inspired by Peter's videos ) of my WbB 44 tonner up on the Mountain Division standing on a siding in Danlilu.   It seems the switcher has been dispatched to this location in case the snowfall becomes deep enough for plowing ... at which time the switcher will couple onto a gondola type wedge plow.  Conductor Jasper Wiggle and engineer Giles Farnaby stand on the locomotive's side deck as brakeman Laris Luckadoo is on the ground checking out the fresh fallen snow.   I wish everyone a very happy holiday season!!

Interesting fact.
Prime mover and other valuable parts from Maine Central Railroad’s decommissioned 44 T locomotives were used to retrofit Tugboats! powerful!

thanks for the powerful display Peter.

Happy Saturday everyone! I am still serving the south with the SD35 on the switching layout.

@Putnam Division posted:

44 tonner getting the job done!

Peter

I also have the MTH Premier Proto 3 NY Ontario & Western 44 ton center cab diesel. Wonderful engine, runs great on DCS, great sounds and great electrocouplers for switching. Yours, Peter, looks like it might be a better puller than mine. For a small engine, it has pretty good heft for pulling. Arnold

@CAPPilot posted:

Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone.

“Merry Christmas and and Happy Holidays!” is also how I greet folks this time of year. I figure that ought to be acceptable to everyone in these contentions times we live in.
“Season’s Greetings” is good, too, but not much used these days.  

Jesse :  Loved the SD 35 in Southern livery.  Seemed to run smooth and great sounds and smoke.  I model (very loosely) a fictional RR in the Savannah port area with Southern sort of "big brother" to my short line...I wondered who made the SD 35?  Thanks

Don

Season’s Greetings to my fellow SwSat friends!

The Angela Trotta Thomas local is about to pull out behind a venerable Lionel Lines 4-4-2 taking happy travelers home with their many packages.

This three car Lionel Baby Madison set is a beauty and under-appreciated, IMO. I saw it on display at my local train shop two years ago and took it home.
See if you agree!

@Don McErlean posted:

Jesse :  Loved the SD 35 in Southern livery.  Seemed to run smooth and great sounds and smoke.  I model (very loosely) a fictional RR in the Savannah port area with Southern sort of "big brother" to my short line...I wondered who made the SD 35?  Thanks

Don

Thanks Don. It’s a MTH proto 3. She is a beautiful engine with great operations. That is the only engine I have ever purchased on an impulse. I seen her on the shelf at the shop, and the thing looked like just a hoss of a engine. Tuxedo scheme, hi-hood and all…. I had to have it!

Switcher movie ... center cab in charge of milk train ... Canton RR SW1500 and calf in charge of freight train.  Click on screen to enlarge.

Jesse thank you for the response and the information.  She certainly seems like a great engine...Oh well...another hunt!

Dave...I Agree a great set for the Holidays !

Best wishes

Don

Trumptrain ole buddy,

      Now that you have gone so far as to give first and last names to your trainmen figures, and to create an imaginary action plan for them, I think that if you go any further and start writing dialogue for them, I'm gonna have to send some doctors in white coats with butterfly nets to visit your house!   :-)

      Are you sure you're not accidentally inhaling valve-oil fumes through your horn?

Merry Christmas

Mannyrock

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

I also have the MTH Premier Proto 3 NY Ontario & Western 44 ton center cab diesel. Wonderful engine, runs great on DCS, great sounds and great electrocouplers for switching. Yours, Peter, looks like it might be a better puller than mine. For a small engine, it has pretty good heft for pulling. Arnold

I agree, great little engine, Arnold.....

The NYO&W RR Historical Society (of which I am a member) has a real 44 tonner, once owned by the O&W. It resides at Steamtown where an O&W volunteer team is restoring her.....

Peter

Switcher Saturday!! Lionel 0-4-0 switcher 1615 with her work train on the 4’ x 4’ layout.
Merry Christmas!

I always find it funny when I see a road engine like GP or SD doing switcher duties but I guess that was the whole intent.  Engines that could handle any task alone or just by adding numbers thereby doing away with specialized designs.

@coach joe posted:

I always find it funny when I see a road engine like GP or SD doing switcher duties but I guess that was the whole intent.  Engines that could handle any task alone or just by adding numbers thereby doing away with specialized designs.

True Joe. I watch a couple of the Virtual Railfan cameras with views of yard activity, (Belene NM, Galesburg Ill) and BNSF uses SD-45's as yard switchers. Amazing to see a single engine go from spotting and sorting 3-4 cars to dragging a 100 car string.

This nice Lionel GP30 Just arrived yesterday!

@stangtrain posted:

This nice Lionel GP30 Just arrived yesterday!

Tom

Stangtrain: Wife and I lived for 10 years just outside Doylestown PA and the New Hope and Ivyland ran very near our neighborhood.  We shopped in New Hope often and I crossed their tracks on the way to work every day.  I am really interested in getting one of these engines.  Is it an offering from Lionel's new catalog or did you find it from another seller?

Thanks for the help

Don