Switcher Saturday: 2018-May-12

RSJB18 posted:

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

Bob, 

  Thanks for the additional pictures. Very nice!

Tom 

briansilvermustang posted:

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.

                        

Brian,

  Hope you had your gas mask on when taking those pictures!  Thanks.

Tom 

          think I'm used to it now, kinda like running with lots of smoke...

The MTH Docksider is a nice little engine.  Only problem is that it doesn't have DCS.  I'm tempted to try to fit an HO or S gauge board into mine.

Still waiting for some one to ID those switchers.  Thinking the Gulf might be a Whitcomb?????

Here's a few odd balls:

Switcher action at the TMB Oil Facility;

RJR posted:

The MTH Docksider is a nice little engine.  Only problem is that it doesn't have DCS.  I'm tempted to try to fit an HO or S gauge board into mine.

Still waiting for some one to ID those switchers.  Thinking the Gulf might be a Whitcomb?????

Here is the ID for the middle one...note that a steam fan figured this out! 

Tom 

GeoPeg posted:

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

George,

  Oops... Just noticed your post and I admit I saw the current date of the (online) paper, but did not notice the date of the article. Ha! Thanks for noticing and hope nobody made a trip to get any souvenir bricks! Yes, people (like me) actually do that...years ago EMD was selling souvenir bricks when they closed down their La Grange facility. http://utahrails.net/loconotes/wheelihan.php 

 Tom 

RJR posted:

The MTH Docksider is a nice little engine.  Only problem is that it doesn't have DCS.  I'm tempted to try to fit an HO or S gauge board into mine.

Still waiting for some one to ID those switchers.  Thinking the Gulf might be a Whitcomb?????

The top one is a Whitcomb Army 65 tonner. 

The third one is a TractivePower Corp TP56

Larry

 #601 65DE19a 65 ton switcher. Whitcomb Locomotive Works. Built 1944 for the U.S.Army. Purchased 1947. Sold 1954 PantheValley Coal Company

I googled Whitcomb Locomotive and came up with much info.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_D._Whitcomb_Company

But for a LOT of pix, see:

https://www.google.com/search?...biw=1408&bih=664

                  https://www.jeff-z.com/wks/locoroster/602/602.html

PSAP2010 posted:

RJR posted:

The MTH Docksider is a nice little engine.  Only problem is that it doesn't have DCS.  I'm tempted to try to fit an HO or S gauge board into mine.

Still waiting for some one to ID those switchers.  Thinking the Gulf might be a Whitcomb?????

The top one is a Whitcomb Army 65 tonner. 

The third one is a TractiivePower Corp TP56

Larry

And the middle one is a GMDH-1 diesel hydraulic.

Rusty