Switcher Saturday: 2017-May-27

Yay! SWSat is on!

This week (despite being up in the Adirondacks working on some former logging railroad things) I feel compelled to post pictures of Virginia Central's two Plymouths and side rodded Porter for some reason.

Virginia Central was a short line that connected to the RF&P in Fredricksburg VA. The roadbed is now a bike path and the Porter found a home in the  Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke VA. It ran into the 1980's.

Oh and I'll put a Virginian 0-8-0 at the VMT in as well because why not.

Have a great weekend  (even if you are packing for a move).

Happy Switcher Saturday and Happy Memorial Day everyone! 

My contributions are all from the Hagley Museum of Delaware. The Hagley Museum holds some of the Pennsylvania Railroad's original collection of negatives. All here are interesting, some are switchers and others are safety related, but still interesting. My father worked on the New Haven briefly after returning from WWII and I know from him that safety was an important part of any railroaders life, whether they operated a shifter/switcher or any other work they performed.  

Safety First!

Tom 

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New Sans Serif Lettering (1941), B6sb #660

Rear of tender for #1255

Notice to Engineers, list of tools, 1861

National Railroad Accident Prevention Drive machine shop sign 1919 #1

National Railroad Accident Prevention Drive machine shop sign circa 1919 #2

South Altoona foundries, men chipping castings, eye goggles circa 1914

I pulled this from the  archives from one of our trips to strasburg a while back. 

greetings from Alaska..........hope you have Happy Memorial Day Weekend !

Alvin, I thought you said you would have the engine cleaned up for the Holiday weekend,

Alvin,  Alvin,   "AALLVVIINN"

Alvin, get back to work, "Alvin".........

thanks for the rear shot of that tender Tom, not even my Pennsy books had a clear shot like that. 

Here's a progress shot of my switcher project and some real locomotives.

Found this at the Allentown Spring Thaw Meet a couple of months ago.

Danbury, Connecticut is at the end of the Metro-North Railroad Danbury Branch - 24 miles from the main line at South Norwalk and 65 miles from Grand Central Terminal. The station was built by the New Haven Railroad in 1903 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It now houses the Danbury Railway Museum.

The station is located on a sharp curve whose radius I estimated to be 375 feet as viewed in an online map. In railroad parlance, this would equate to a 15-degree curve. This means that the trucks of a car with a 100-foot wheelbase would each be turned 7-1/2 degrees as it goes around the curve. The picture below of Metro-North 226, a GE P32AC-DM locomotive, and its train of passenger cars makes the sharp curve apparent.

Enjoy the weekend!

MELGAR

Melvin/MELGAR,

I've been to Danbury Station and the Museum several times and enjoyed it.  Several years ago I took some nice photos of FL9's right where your Genesis locomotive is positioned.

Tom 

I was at the museum on Wednesday. Nice to stroll through all the equipment, even saw a LIRR Alco. 

Moved the inglenook puzzle to freight yard.

Old 624 gets some attention......................

No switchers running this week.....but have a few on my wall.....

Peter

Happy SWSat and Happy Memorial Day Everyone!

Going to keep the Plymouth theme going with the newest arrival on the RSJ&B.

It's a PRR # 99 Plymouth Switcher by K-Line. Just received it Thursday. I need to service it still but I had to put it on the layout and try it out. Here's some photos of the maiden voyage. It has a smoke unit but I didn't want to try it yet until I get it serviced.

Have a good weekend and if you are a veteran- Thank you for your service.

Bob

Good morning fellow SWSAT fans!!!  Wonderful info and photos from everyone!!

Rich,  one can post any day of the week for Team Track Tuesday ... even on Saturday  Did you win at the Preakness?   You gave me an idea for Team Track Tuesday btw

Here is some new "fresh" photos of end cab switchers on the Free State Junction  Railway..... we have B&O SW9 & GP9 consist pulling an express boxcar/refer  train from Westend Yard ( imaginary ) to Eastly Yard ( also imaginary ) on the other side of Patsburg.   The Canton RR end cab switcher and calf are pulling a scrap train from Eastly Yard to Westly Yard where it will be switched into a longer freight train headed to Youngstown Ohio with road diesels leading the way.  

In observance of Memorial Day Weekend, I've also include a photo of Freedom Park, which is on my layout.  I dedicated this park to my Dad, who landed on Omaha Beach in Normandy France on June 6,1944.  He also played a large part in supporting my love of trains ( both real and model ).  Thanks to all who served!  

Happy SWSAT to everyone! 

I was able to get down to the "yard" today and watch the NYC switcher #588 move a couple of cars.  A few weeks ago I posted pictures of his twin brother(also #588 but different paint scheme) moving some gons.  These boys are keeping busy!

Enjoy!

Phil in Ohio

moving coal.....

A little Great Lakes docksider just rusting away.

awesome picture,  like to have that in my back yard .....

Pennsylvania S-4 #8433 picking up a load on Saturday.

Thanks again Rich!

Charlie

wild mary posted:

A little Great Lakes docksider just rusting away.

This actually looks like a fireless engine to me.

Funny thing is, on my phone it looks like its floating until I zoomed in!

jhz563 posted:

wild mary posted:

A little Great Lakes docksider just rusting away.

This actually looks like a fireless engine to me.

Funny thing is, on my phone it looks like its floating until I zoomed in!

jhz563 - I agree.  It looks like a fireless cooker to me too.  This locomotive appears to not have a saddle tank for water or a fuel bunker for coal or oil. 

Wow, some neat pictures above, great thread...

trumptrain posted:

jhz563 posted:

wild mary posted:

A little Great Lakes docksider just rusting away.

This actually looks like a fireless engine to me.

Funny thing is, on my phone it looks like its floating until I zoomed in!

jhz563 - I agree.  It looks like a fireless cooker to me too.  This locomotive appears to not have a saddle tank for water or a fuel bunker for coal or oil. 

Actually the rust bucket is a coal fired steam porter, standard gauge loco and not a docksider as I stated above.  Here's a slight variation.

switcher Saturday ;  Sunday edition :

wild mary posted:

trumptrain posted:

jhz563 posted:

wild mary posted:

A little Great Lakes docksider just rusting away.

This actually looks like a fireless engine to me.

Funny thing is, on my phone it looks like its floating until I zoomed in!

jhz563 - I agree.  It looks like a fireless cooker to me too.  This locomotive appears to not have a saddle tank for water or a fuel bunker for coal or oil. 

Actually the rust bucket is a coal fired steam porter, standard gauge loco and not a docksider as I stated above.  Here's a slight variation.

They really look quite different to me.  The "rust bucket" does not appear to have a saddle tank, and the large shield at the front would be lagging to completely insulate the pressure vessel section.

jhz563 posted:

wild mary posted:

trumptrain posted:

jhz563 posted:

wild mary posted:

A little Great Lakes docksider just rusting away.

This actually looks like a fireless engine to me.

Funny thing is, on my phone it looks like its floating until I zoomed in!

jhz563 - I agree.  It looks like a fireless cooker to me too.  This locomotive appears to not have a saddle tank for water or a fuel bunker for coal or oil. 

Actually the rust bucket is a coal fired steam porter, standard gauge loco and not a docksider as I stated above.  Here's a slight variation.

They really look quite different to me.  The "rust bucket" does not appear to have a saddle tank, and the large shield at the front would be lagging to completely insulate the pressure vessel section.

The "rust bucket" is definitely a fireless cooker.  Along with the large pressure vessel, the stack not lining up with the cylinders (pretty much all U.S. non-articulated "fire" locomotive stacks line up with the cylinders,)  and all the daylight under the cab clearly shows there is no firebox.

Rusty

http://www.whippanyrailwaymuse...ooker-0-4-0f-no-7240

Lehigh Valley Railroad posted:

Chris, 

Is this the Lionel version of the LV alco switcher?