Switcher Saturday: 2018-July-14

While not switcher related - I haven't had a chance to share these with you guys yet, but a few weeks back the Murnane family went down to Orlando, spent a couple days a Disney parks and a day at Universal, it was a great trip.

The world famous Disney Steam Engine!

This is my older daughter at Universal - a Harry Potter fanatic....

This is one pic I took of the G-Gauge outdoor train "layout" at Epcot, no trains running that day though :-( 

The Disney Monorail is cool for sure, didn't get to ride it though.

This guy must have been sweating like crazy, it was like 99 degrees when this picture was taken, the guy never broke character once, super nice guy.

This guy is just some train nerd

Daughter #2 (Boo) with her "Minnie" look - riding the rails...

I liked this picture, except that set of hands you see on the left hand side kind of ruin it!

They did a nice job all the way around with the scenery.

Kid #1 taking a break from her phone to peek at the "Mine Train" ride.

Happy SWSat Guys!

Thanks again for getting things going Rich.

Great Disney and Universal pix. We've been down there many times over the years and they do have a lot of train related attractions. Throw in our trips on the Auto-train and it's almost a perfect train guy's vacation. Someone had posted some videos of the Monorail/ train shops a while back, probably can be found on Youtube. I never saw trains running on the Epcot G layout either. The Harry Potter train ride at Universal was cool too.

This week the RSJ&B is debuting the latest acquisition- a K-line MP-15 in the GM/ EMD demonstrator scheme. The engine looks brand new but it doesn't run . Gotta send it to the shops for service.

History of the MP-15 here (courtesy Wikipedia)

Rich- I rewire all my K-line diesels in series. Slows them down to a much more realistic speed.

Yay! SWSat is on!

I am posting from a seat on the left(river) side of the Amtrak Maple Leaf speeding up the ex NYC Hudson Mainline to Saracuse. 

Just passed Tom P/MNCWs neighborhood.

This summer Amtrak is repairing the bridge at Spyten Dyvel and doing trackwork so I got to leave from Grand Central in a newly refurbished Amfleet 1.

Here are some pics including the Bridge work from the train. 

Leaving from Grand Central is always a treat.

I caught some of the Trackwork Yesterday when I was coming back from Watering my Garden plot. 

Last some 2 rail O scale Switchers on the NYSME layout. 

Have a great weekend everyone. Rich that looks like a very fun trip. 

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have a great Saturday guys

A little local action...

Tom

Happy Switcher Saturday all 

Went to the shoreline yesterday with the Mrs., and stopped by Essex for these pics.

On vacation in the UP and caught this dolomite train unloading.  We were out on my in-laws boat checking out the freighter docked at the dolomite mine.  Bonus finding the switcher...

Here is a video of the switcher...

WOO HOO  a new switcher has just arrived.  A Western Depot Exclusive Plymouth. Love it because it matches my favorite real switcher. More pictures next week.  Azgary 

Visiting Red Wing MN and our hotel was next door to the ADM ethanol? plant. The plant is served by   BNSF.

Hope I had not posted this before.

A little teapot I got to drive about seven years ago.

At the controls.

The only thing!  I was so looking forward to blowing, playing< the whistle.  But I pulled it over the first time pulling the cord#*&@!  So!!!!

Ron

Just arrived and unboxed - my new New Haven RS3 switcher.

No new pictures of mine today, so here’s one from the kids

phoch00 posted:

Just arrived and unboxed - my new New Haven RS3 switcher.

Your water came out great! What did you use and how deep is that pour?

Wow, great thread, lots of super switchers...

stevin posted:

phoch00 posted:

Just arrived and unboxed - my new New Haven RS3 switcher.

Your water came out great! What did you use and how deep is that pour?

Thanks! I started off with a layer of the Deep Pour from Woodland Scenics. That was about 1/2" or so and then I layered on the Realistic Water from Woodland Scenics until I was happy with it. Total depth is about an inch. I used the murky tint on both layers. My yard (and canal) is meant to represent the Stamford, CT yard. I imagine that when it was active the color of the water was much darker as I've represented in my model. I don't have any pictures of it from olden days but I just imagine it was much murkier than it is today.