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#SwitcherSaturday is back!

Lots of us out there love switchers, so lets keep #SwitcherSaturday (a.k.a. SWSAT) rolling!

Last week we had almost 70 pictures posted! https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/t...saturday-2015-jul-11

Today at the Murnane house we have my K-Line PRR A5s #94 on duty - rolling on my hollow wood door layout - including a bunch of Plasticville!



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If you get a chance, please post some pictures or video of your favorite switchers!

 

Best...Rich Murnane

 

p.s. Miss the post on Saturday? NO BIG DEAL, just keep posting pictures of your favorites until the next #SwitcherSaturday

 

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Yay Switcher Saturday!

Here is a New Haven MTH RS3 Roadswitcher shell riding on a Lionel Mechanisim and a Williams B&O NW2 weaving through some columns that weren't there a minute ago. Sometimes Combining hobbies is fun, other times it leads to some Devastating results.

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Just an added bit of fun this week. I'm sure it is hard to switch let alone stay on the rails when the ground is shaking.

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SWSAT Time!!!

 

(Disclaimer: For the foreseeable future, you're just going to have to use your imagination to view my model pics... on account of there ain't no scenery and the recently acquired new engines still lack weathering!)

 

Scale: HO

 

"The Q's NW2 #9245 sits in the West Bottoms waiting for a signal to clear before trundling off into the West Bottoms to do some switching."

 

 

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The above is a bone-stock Broadway Limited Imports NW2 factory painted in the classic Burlington black and gray "slogan" scheme.  I remember seeing examples of the CB&Q's switchers so adorned as a lad in North Kansas City.  Here's a pic of the front of the engine:

 

 

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BLI does a good job with their paint and the engines run nice and smooth. Weakest point would be the sound, IMHO. However, by itself the sound is pretty good, just not quite up to the quality as offered by decoder-only companies. (Tsunami, LokSound, etc.)

 

However, you can't complain about the price! I purchased the above NIB engine from a dealer for something like $180.  I have picked up NIB BLI switchers off eBay for as little as $130!  We're talking a BRAND-NEW-STILL-IN-THE-BOX with detailed w/interior, excellent paint, and DCC/Sound... for $130!

 

And NOW, for my "Proto-Pic" of the week. This week's Proto-Pic is a pic of the first diesel the Kansas City Terminal purchased back in 1938: The ALCo HH1000 diesel switcher.  It served the KCT until about 1964.

 

 

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I have just ordered an Atlas HO scale ALCo HH660 (looks almost identical to the above) to become my Kansas City & Gulf's first ever diesel that is still doing yeoman service for the KC&G in the early 60s era that I will be modeling. I intend to model it in the "as delivered" black KC&G scheme that I have flitting about in my mind.

 

Also, I will be reserving an Atlas "Gold" HH660 in painted in the livery of the Tennessee Central, which is the spittin' image of the above sans the hood lettering... even the same number! I will remove the hood lettering and replace it with "Kansas City Terminal" and add the needed yellow stripes to reflect the KCT #50 paint scheme of the early 1960s. 

 

All fer now!

 

 

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Nice pics everybody!

 

Rusty:

 

You know how I feel about your new Mop RS-11's!!

 

All:

 

Need to clarify something I typed. I typed this:

 

"I have just ordered an Atlas HO scale ALCo HH660 (looks almost identical to the above) to become my Kansas City & Gulf's first ever diesel..."

 

Reading that, it reads as if my Atlas engine I ordered will look like the KCT unit pictured. Not exactly. I ordered an UNDECORATED unit. What I meant was: There are minor differences between an HH1000 and an HH660.

 

 

 

Made some progress at the workbench!  Thought I'd share it and in the process add some more pics to SWSAT!

 

What I did:

 

Took the bone-stock BLI HO scale in the "as delivered" KCS NW2 #1222 and brought it up to the early 60s by adding the missing shield heralds on the cab sides, the white striping on the foot board edges, and extending the side sill white stripe to the inside of the step wells.  Still to go: Paint most of the handrails white, but that will wait until after I've masked off the windows, given it a coat of dull coat, then weather it, then follow up with more dull coat to seal the chalks/etc.  THEN after all the handling/disassembling is over, paint the needed handrails white. Oh, and I also need to paint the stacks silver before the weathering begins.

 

ANYWAY... here's a BEFORE picture:

   

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And here's the AFTER...

 

"Having just set out a cut of cars for the KC&G in their West Bottoms 12th St. Yard, Engineer 'Slick" Hodgens checks over his idling NW2 before climbing back onboard and rumbling off to return to the KCS' Knoche Yard."

 

 

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I got this PRR C1 Boiler from the weaver Sale. I plan on upgrading my "Mason c1 to the correct PRR one with the swap out of this boiler. 

 

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currently the Steam loco is at HEnnings for a full TMCC upgrade inclusing fan driven smoker and super chuffer- da Whole Enchilada! I am counting on the Gunrunner to take good care of her!

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