Switcher Saturday: 2018-May-12

Yay! SWSat is on!

Thanks Tom for gettin g things going this weekend. Again my Sincere Condolences extend to Rich.

Here is a K-line MP15. 

This is A picture of my old walk in closet layout in my old Apartment. It was a fun little layout.

Here is an old picture of a Beep pulling a boxcar of another fallen flag. Uh oh. It looks like there was a hop on.

Have a great weekend guys.

We're off to another good start thanks to Tom ably filling in for Rich.

Andy it's nice to see that a scale modeler has room for basic K-line.

My condolences to Rich on the loss of his uncle.  

No pics today,  If every thing works out right I will introduce you guys to my new daughter by the end of the weekend.

coach joe posted:

We're off to another good start thanks to Tom ably filling in for Rich.

Andy it's nice to see that a scale modeler has room for basic K-line.

Coach Joe I usually just do what I like. As far as room I really have none. I live in Manhattan where space is a premium. My personal layout is on the top shelf of a bookshelf it is 3 rail. It is why almost all of my 3 rail pics look the same. The NYSME layout in NJ is where I can actually run anything of substance. I am considering what would be involved in the switch to 2 rail at home and maybe even using the 2 rail stuff to fund the 3 rail replacement.

The 2rail scale thing to me is realativly new. These pics I am posting are also from my wayback machine. The subway themed shot is from my layout in my old Apartment that I has been gone almost 4 years now. 

Congratulations JHZ563. Wonderful. 

Have a good one.

Tom,

Your New York City area harbor map, steam engine photograph and drawing are great finds!

Two Sunday's ago, my wife and I had lunch at the Steaming Tender Restaurant in Palmer, Massachusetts. The restaurant is located alongside the tracks of the former Boston & Albany Railroad and occupies a station built in 1884. A 1915 Porter 0-6-0 switcher is parked outside and our lunch was excellent.

MELGAR

Happy SWSat everyone.

Thanks for starting us off this week Tom. Hard to believe that so much freight used to come into NY Harbor.

Condolences once again to Rich.

Andy- we won't hold your two rail aspirations against you. Very creative use of a closet. Although...a closet in a NY apartment??????

JHZ536- Good luck! Can't pick a better Mothers Day present than that!

Melgar- nice shots of the Porter.

Coach Joe- thanks for stopping by. I'm still looking for that subway station in Farmingdale.

Over on Weekend Photo Fun this week- Johan @BAR GP7 #63 posted some shots of his BL-2 which quickly took over the thread. Lot's of BL-2 fans out there. So here's mine for SWSat also.

Bob

Diesel and steam switchers, in situ...FrankM

Yet another example from the collection at Bellevue...

Tom

Happy Switcher Saturday To All.

Tom that's some neat stuff.

Melgar that Porter is a good looking locomotive.

1662 moving a dump car to the yard

1615 waiting for a crew change

This postwar bell ringing classic is my best:

From Lionel's golden age (early 1950s) with Magnetraction: pound for pound and ounce for ounce, a great puller.

Arnold

This one is comparable (Lionel postwar, good puller, bell ringer) without Magnetraction and probably from the late 1940s, in the form of a steam engine:

Arnold

HEre are a few pics of a switcher at rest on one of the TMB Club Layout sidings

One of the newest members to the crosstimbers division.

Silver Lake posted:

Yay! SWSat is on!

Thanks Tom for gettin g things going this weekend. Again my Sincere Condolences extend to Rich.

Here is a K-line MP15. 

This is A picture of my old walk in closet layout in my old Apartment. It was a fun little layout.

Here is an old picture of a Beep pulling a boxcar of another fallen flag. Uh oh. It looks like there was a hop on.

Have a great weekend guys.

I have that BNSF MP15. - nice engine!

Tom Densel posted:

Yet another example from the collection at Bellevue...

Tom

Bellvue, Ohio. Mad River & Nickel Plate Museum is well worth a visit if you are in NW Ohio. Cedar Point Amusement Park is nearby, too!

Happy Switcher Saturday, pics from Essex steam train and riverboat, Essex CT.

Great stuff everyone...everything from vintage American steam to more modern Chinese steam with everything in between.  

Tom 

Late as usual, this arrived this afternoon a Christmas set minus it's box, no instructions so will have to look them up but looks great so far. Pictures off the auction site not a bad find this side of the pond!

AEC Geep

   Bill

Happy Switcher Saturday!! Great photos and info everyone!! Thanks Tom for getting us started today.  Keeping Rich and his family in my thoughts.  

Love those BL2s!  I want to someday buy a BL1 ( demonstrator .... the only BL1 manufactured ... BL1 is basically a BL2 without m.u. capability but I'm sure everyone on this thread already know that. ) 

The B&O docksider was called into action this past Monday, to help out in pulling damaged to team tracks for repair after a derailment occurred on the Mountain Division of the Free State Junction Railway.   The photos show the 0-4-0 and damaged car at Danlillu siding at Danlillue crossing.  

What are the two different centercabs Briansilvermustang shows, beside the GE?

The switching in the early 40's across from NYC inWeehawken was enormous.  Yards all gone now.  I can still picture them,

You guys are awesome, thanks for keeping things rolling Tom @PRR8976 - it's been a long week and I appreciate all the comments.  See you guys next week...Rich

Big boy switcher, Lionel postwar Erie Lackawanna FM Trainmaster. navigating sharp 031  curves:

Murnane posted:

You guys are awesome, thanks for keeping things rolling Tom @PRR8976 - it's been a long week and I appreciate all the comments.  See you guys next week...Rich

Rich,

 Just keeping your seat warm. Thanks for checking in. 

Have a good week.

Tom 

trumptrain posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday!! Great photos and info everyone!! Thanks Tom for getting us started today.  Keeping Rich and his family in my thoughts.  

Love those BL2s!  I want to someday buy a BL1 ( demonstrator .... the only BL1 manufactured ... BL1 is basically a BL2 without m.u. capability but I'm sure everyone on this thread already know that. ) 

The B&O docksider was called into action this past Monday, to help out in pulling damaged to team tracks for repair after a derailment occurred on the Mountain Division of the Free State Junction Railway.   The photos show the 0-4-0 and damaged car at Danlillu siding at Danlillue crossing.  

Cheers and Happy Railroading,

Patrick W  

CEO - The Free State Junction Railway 

" Where the music is sweet and the trains always run on time"

Home Office - Patsburg, Maryland 

 

Hi Patrick,

  I love your little Dockside switcher...remind me again if you could, MTH makes it correct and does it smoke or not? 

Tom 

jhz563 posted:

My condolences to Rich on the loss of his uncle.  

No pics today,  If every thing works out right I will introduce you guys to my new daughter by the end of the weekend.

Looks like no baby yet folks.  Birth mother had contractions for over 24 hours but no dice yet.  She was discharged,  every body is healthy.

Thanks for the support 

MNCW posted:

trumptrain posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday!! Great photos and info everyone!! Thanks Tom for getting us started today.  Keeping Rich and his family in my thoughts.  

Love those BL2s!  I want to someday buy a BL1 ( demonstrator .... the only BL1 manufactured ... BL1 is basically a BL2 without m.u. capability but I'm sure everyone on this thread already know that. ) 

The B&O docksider was called into action this past Monday, to help out in pulling damaged to team tracks for repair after a derailment occurred on the Mountain Division of the Free State Junction Railway.   The photos show the 0-4-0 and damaged car at Danlillu siding at Danlillue crossing.  

Cheers and Happy Railroading,

Patrick W  

CEO - The Free State Junction Railway 

" Where the music is sweet and the trains always run on time"

Home Office - Patsburg, Maryland 

 

 

Hi Patrick,

  I love your little Dockside switcher...remind me again if you could, MTH makes it correct and does it smoke or not? 

Tom 

Thanks Tom!  It is an MTH and it does smoke quite well actually.  To get it to produce  a good steady plume of smoke, it needs about 16 volts of track power.  I didn't fire it up for these photos, however, with your mentioning of smoke, I'm regretting not doing so.  Certainly would have made for more convincing realism.  I guess one could say the engineer is running a clean stack on the day of the shoot. 

trumptrain posted:

MNCW posted:

trumptrain posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday!! Great photos and info everyone!! Thanks Tom for getting us started today.  Keeping Rich and his family in my thoughts.  

Love those BL2s!  I want to someday buy a BL1 ( demonstrator .... the only BL1 manufactured ... BL1 is basically a BL2 without m.u. capability but I'm sure everyone on this thread already know that. ) 

The B&O docksider was called into action this past Monday, to help out in pulling damaged to team tracks for repair after a derailment occurred on the Mountain Division of the Free State Junction Railway.   The photos show the 0-4-0 and damaged car at Danlillu siding at Danlillue crossing.  

Cheers and Happy Railroading,

Patrick W  

CEO - The Free State Junction Railway 

" Where the music is sweet and the trains always run on time"

Home Office - Patsburg, Maryland 

 

 

Hi Patrick,

  I love your little Dockside switcher...remind me again if you could, MTH makes it correct and does it smoke or not? 

Tom 

Thanks Tom!  It is an MTH and it does smoke quite well actually.  To get it to produce  a good steady plume of smoke, it needs about 16 volts of track power.  I didn't fire it up for these photos, however, with your mentioning of smoke, I'm regretting not doing so.  Certainly would have made for more convincing realism.  I guess one could say the engineer is running a clean stack on the day of the shoot. 

Patrick,

  Thanks for letting me know. Watch out for those derailments! 

Tom 

Wow this has been one terrific Switcher Saturday.  Leave it to Brian to come up with an entire album of switcher photos.  I really like that 50s styling on that GM EMD switcher.  I really wish someone would make that one., Although if they did it would probably cost more than I could afford.

Johan that shot of your BAR BL2 looks so realistic.  Again great modelling skills meet great photographic skills.

JHZ563, Good Luck and keep us posted.

Frank M, I'm awestruck as usual whenever I see pics of your layout.

Patrick your maintenance crew has done a bong up job getting that hopper ready to moe to the car shop.

Tom- I have two of the MTH 0-4-0's and I can smoke out my basement with both of them running. They have fan driven smokers so they can really get going at higher voltages.

Bob

coach joe posted:

Wow this has been one terrific Switcher Saturday.  Leave it to Brian to come up with an entire album of switcher photos.  I really like that 50s styling on that GM EMD switcher.  I really wish someone would make that one., Although if they did it would probably cost more than I could afford.

Johan that shot of your BAR BL2 looks so realistic.  Again great modelling skills meet great photographic skills.

JHZ563, Good Luck and keep us posted.

Frank M, I'm awestruck as usual whenever I see pics of your layout.

Patrick your maintenance crew has done a bong up job getting that hopper ready to moe to the car shop.

Joe: Thank you very much.

Johan 

MNCW posted:

Speaking of Pittsburgh Locomotive Works, one of the co-founders was Andrew Carnegie.  The shop buildings were just recently starting to get demolished:

http://www.post-gazette.com/bu...stories/201001240240 

Tom

 

Tom, it looks like that article is about 8 yrs old. Google-Earthing it, the writer of that article got it right - where the Pittsburgh Locomotive Works used to be, the area is now a parking lot and storage area for large spools of wire, transformers, etc.

Oh, the humanity!!!!

George

trumptrain posted:

MNCW posted:

trumptrain posted:

 

The B&O docksider was called into action this past Monday, to help out in pulling damaged to team tracks for repair after a derailment occurred on the Mountain Division of the Free State Junction Railway.   The photos

 

Hi Patrick,

  I love your little Dockside switcher...remind me again if you could, MTH makes it correct and does it smoke or not? 

Tom 

Thanks Tom!  It is an MTH and it does smoke quite well actually.  To get it to produce  a good steady plume of smoke, it needs about 16 volts of track power.  I didn't fire it up for these photos, however, with your mentioning of smoke, I'm regretting not doing so.  Certainly would have made for more convincing realism.  I guess one could say the engineer is running a clean stack on the day of the shoot.