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It's #SwitcherSaturday time!!!!

Lots of us out there love switchers (shifters, docksiders, yard goats, critters, etc.), so lets keep #SwitcherSaturday (a.k.a. SWSAT) rolling!

Last week we had some awesome pictures, comments, and video! Thanks to everyone for making this so much fun!
https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/t...saturday-2016-feb-06

My pictures today are of a real world GE 44-ton switcher which ran on the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington line in Massachusetts and Vermont. I have a family connection to this line so I often google around for info about it and I found these on the bay this week.

Hoot Toot & Whistle Hoosac Tunnel MA December 29th 1970 PostcardHoosac Tunnel and Wilmington 44-Tonner #32 July 25 1971 ebay

I really like the recent Williams 44-ton models, a few of you have posted pictures of them since they were released and they look great.  I'd love to get one have paint and weather it to look like this one.

 

I also found this post the other day for a bashed steam switcher, it's worth a peek.
https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/t...-lionel-switcher-300

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Last up, my friend sent me these pictures of a lithographed tin switcher that was apparently on the bay a few years back, really a neat little engine.

HB diesel switcher using AF frame and marx tractor and caboose half 102.50HB diesel switcher using marx motor and AF 1100 series coupler

 

I hope everyone everyone enjoys their weekend and stays warm, 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! Sw Sat is on!

This week I am posting some pics of switchers on my old layout. I am slowly getting enough track and planning a new layout in a larger spot. Some of these may be old reposts from past Sw Sats sorry for that.

Here is my Williams NW2image

Here is my K-line Porterimage

Here is an old Karl Bub German engineimage

Here is my MTH RS3 shell on Lionel running gear.image

My RMT S4image

My K-line Plymouthimage

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Here is a before and after I repainted my junker Lionel 520imageimageimageimage

Here are some overall views of my tiny layout after I had started taking it apart for the move. You get a sence of how small my layout was. The center was the opening in an O-31 oval. The shelves used to have all of my rolling stock storage. The lowest shelf I claimed was the mainline at an elevated passenger station so I could leave trains there.imageimageimageimageimage

Here you get an idea of the track layout there was a plug in curve that connected the left and right track to make a loop. So next time you guys complain about lack of space for a layout this was my layout in a walk in closet / hallway in Manhattan NYC. It is possible to do a lot in a tiny space. In a way it forces some creativity. I'm a big passenger train fan but my spacereally only allowed a little switching layout. 

I had a drop in curve to allow loop running but it was such a tight spot with it in that I usually just left it off and with bumpers in place I just ran this layout as a switching layout. In places it was so tight I hand threw turnouts because the switch machines took up too much space. The run around track with the spur inside was tricky. It looked better with a building flat there.  The whole thing was really only suited to one switcher. I liked running the tiny Plymouth with much bigger more scale sized cars.

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I put a new for me 0-8-0 through shakedown testing a few days ago with plans to display it in my office today.  I really like this locomotive as a conventional runner. I asked my 5 year old son what other cars he thought should go with the 0-8-0 in the display case.  His response, which surprised me, was the locomotive he received for Christmas plus a very specific list of cars that have been put away for over a month.  The bottom picture is what we wound up displaying.

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Hi Bob,

 Thanks for your thoughts and the great picture. I think this was my fourth bout with them. The second time that I had one was pretty funny. My wife had to drive me to the ER. As she was driving under the Old Put girder bridge on Yonkers Ave (Yonkers, NY), she was swerving right and left quite a bit to avoid some big potholes. By the time we got to the hospital, the stone was dislodged. I always tease her that it was her crazy driving that saved me. 

 Please contact me off the list if you have time. 

Tom

 

CNJ 3676 posted:

My contribution to this week's thread is dedicated to our Switcher Saturday brethren from Maryland.

The Canton Railroad is a switching and terminal railroad headquartered in Baltimore. Its origins go back to the early 20th Century when the Canton Company, a marine terminal operator, built its own railroad to serve its facilities due to the reluctance of the B&O and PRR to extend their respective trackage into what was then a largely undeveloped area. The Canton Railroad began running in 1907. Due to the local nature of its operations, the road's roster has been dominated by switcher types but now also includes several road switchers in the form of rebuilt first generation EMD units.

Posted below are images are Canton Railroad locomotives wearing a variety of paint schemes. Of particular interest is Baldwin VO-1000 32. This locomotive was originally delivered to the Canton, then went to the Patapsco & Back Rivers, a Bethlehem Steel owned road, and subsequently returned to the CTN before retirement. In fact, we see it here still wearing Patapsco & Back Rivers livery with Canton lettering and numbering. Other than two VO-1000s, the Canton locomotive's roster has been dominated by General Motors models in the diesel era.

Bob

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CNJ  - Many thanks for these photos of Canton Railroad switchers and for the historic information as well.  Much appreciated from this Maryland Switcher Saturday brother! 

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