Switcher Saturday: 2018-October-13

A few pictures I grabbed off some Facebook groups this week...

NYCentralFansGroup-grainmills,buffalo, n.y.

A French loco tender 131 TB. Those engines where build in 1925 for the Eastern Railways and later where incorporated to the SNCF and used around Paris for suburb trains.

The model is a home made one dating from 60 years ago, a talented modeler who is unknown used parts from Fournereau and other suppliers to realize this nice looking model in three rail O gauge.

Have a nice weekend,   Daniel

Northern Pacific GP-7 on the S&Y RR

   Bill T.

There were several of these Pittsburg Shawmut Bi-centennial SW9's, one of my modeling projects.

It's outage season at work, so the Filing Cabinet Central is playing host to a crane and NS geep 1459.

This is one of the WBB geeps that were on blow-out a few years ago.  One of these years I might rewire it, this thing will pull stumps out of the ground at 5 volts!

Happy Switcher Saturday! 

Dough Hill (name of my layout) received 3 new transformers this morning and I thought I would play around with some different kind of pics. Enjoy

Happy SWSat!

Great photos of the old NYC Rich!

Nice model Daniel

Bill and Mike- great switchers

This week the RSJ&B took delivery of another Plymouth switcher. This one was formerly property of the US Steel Corp. It will have plenty of company working the yards around here.

Bob

Yay! SWSat is on!

I have always liked these center cab Steamers. I have never seen one until this one in the National Railway Collection in York, England. 

 They are almost like two conjoined 0-4-0T s with a single rigid frame.  They seem great for switching. 

My biggest switcher: MTH Proto 1 NJ Central Trainmaster hauling coal and oil to York, PA so all OGR Forum members have plenty of heat for the train show next week:

This model of Union Pacific EMD SW9 diesel switcher #1875 was first offered by Atlas O in 2001. I really like the Atlas SW switcher models and also bought them in Boston & Maine, New York Central, Conrail and New Haven liveries. The caboose is a K-Line model of UP wood caboose #3592 – with the smoke switch firmly in the “off” position.

MELGAR

MELGAR posted:

This model of Union Pacific EMD SW9 diesel switcher #1875 was first offered by Atlas O in 2001. I really like the Atlas SW switcher models and also bought them in Boston & Maine, New York Central, Conrail and New Haven liveries. The caboose is a K-Line model of UP wood caboose #3592 – with the smoke switch firmly in the “off” position.

MELGAR

Would love to see your Boston & Maine and New Haven switchers.

hot dang it's Saturday! 

Age of Steam Roundhouse here in Ohio brought home it's latest 0-6-0 Wheeling and Lake Erie 3960. Pics from their site

no times or locations on these W&LE switchers

Happy Switcher Saturday.

This week S.B.R. get some own rolling stock. They get 3 -hoppers, one flat car, one passenger car and two cabooses. I am quite happy with all results.

I can see why you're "happy with the results"; those all look terrific!

And the layout itself is equally well done; very nice indeed. 

Mark in Oregon

Johan, great work as usual.  Your loads are always so realistic.  The logo on the hoppers is very imaginative.  We've spoken about you transfer caboose before and the other caboose turned out just as well.  No picture of the passenger car here but I saw it on your post in another thread, the shortened car came out very nicely also.

YES!!! ... It's SWSAT!!!  Great photos and info everyone!  Again this week has been terrifically busy so no time for new pics.   This coming week I'm heading to YorK and will be there all day Friday and perhaps Saturday too so who knows perhaps a new switcher purchase??  Here are some re-peats.... a WM BL2 and crew about to perform some switching duties. 

I always have to check to see how to spell SWSAT!  I keep wanting to write SWAT!  

That's a lot of excellent switchers, both prototype and model once again today!  Great job everyone! 

We were discussing Postwar switchers this past week when Bob RSJB18 posted photographs of the 624 he bought.  Here is my 621.

Very nice Mark!

Thank you Bob.  1953, 3 years older than I am.  And the 621 moves smoother than I do!  

Strummer posted:

I can see why you're "happy with the results"; those all look terrific!

And the layout itself is equally well done; very nice indeed. 

Mark in Oregon

Mark:

Thanks. Next month S.B.R. -layout visit from Germany: https://www.modellbahn-koeln.de/en/modellbahn-koeln/

After that i have time build & paint more S.B.R. rolling stock.

Johan

Happy Switcher Saturday everyone.

Great pictures everyone. My contribution is one of my prewar #227's as I originally spotted it for sale at the Toy & Train Show at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY. 

What can I say, it looked lonely. 

Tom 

On a side note...we all have various things plugged into outlets at work and home.

I went into work the other day...I sort of work in the back compared to the front of the office. There are 4 offices in my area. As I was almost at my office (early before others got there), I passed the first 2 other offices in my area when I smelled something, like a burning odor. So, I opened the other offices to see if anything was wrong and didn't notice anything. I brought back an older woman to see if she smelled anything. She smelled it also, but we still didn't notice anything. We thought maybe it was the air vent...nothing stood out at first. I looked again and finally saw a metal pull chain for the blinds that was glowing red! In what I guess you would say was a thousand to one fluke, that long metal chain had fallen between a surge protector and what looked like a slightly pulled out plug for a calculator, touching the plug blades/prongs...so it was glowing red because it was electrified! If my friend/co-worker or I had touched the metal pull chain to raise or lower the blinds we would have had quite a jolt. Also, if this was all "sizzling" over the weekend, that would not have been good. In the end it was just putting up with the odor of burning plastic (the housing for the calculator plug was burned through) and some wires got ruined. 

MORAL of the story...make sure all your plugs are tightly plugged in! 

Tom 

coach joe posted:

Johan, great work as usual.  Your loads are always so realistic.  The logo on the hoppers is very imaginative.  We've spoken about you transfer caboose before and the other caboose turned out just as well.  No picture of the passenger car here but I saw it on your post in another thread, the shortened car came out very nicely also.

Joe: Thank you very much. It´s nice get ready some S.B.R. rolling stock before our Germany trip. I have many new ideas and i think next year we have about 10 S.B.R. car more and maybe couple engines too. I can post some "Dianne" pics tomorrow in another thread.

Johan

MNCW posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday everyone.

Great pictures everyone. My contribution is one of my prewar #227's as I originally spotted it for sale at the Toy & Train Show at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, NY. 

What can I say, it looked lonely. 

Tom 

 

If it needs friends it can come play at my house!

MNCW posted:

On a side note...we all have various things plugged into outlets at work and home.

I went into work the other day...I sort of work in the back compared to the front of the office. There are 4 offices in my area. As I was almost at my office (early before others got there), I passed the first 2 other offices in my area when I smelled something, like a burning odor. So, I opened the other offices to see if anything was wrong and didn't notice anything. I brought back an older woman to see if she smelled anything. She smelled it also, but we still didn't notice anything. We thought maybe it was the air vent...nothing stood out at first. I looked again and finally saw a metal pull chain for the blinds that was glowing red! In what I guess you would say was a thousand to one fluke, that long metal chain had fallen between a surge protector and what looked like a slightly pulled out plug for a calculator, touching the plug blades/prongs...so it was glowing red because it was electrified! If my friend/co-worker or I had touched the metal pull chain to raise or lower the blinds we would have had quite a jolt. Also, if this was all "sizzling" over the weekend, that would not have been good. In the end it was just putting up with the odor of burning plastic (the housing for the calculator plug was burned through) and some wires got ruined. 

MORAL of the story...make sure all your plugs are tightly plugged in! 

Tom 

WOW Tom- lucky the blinds didn't catch fire. The chains on the blinds should have been shorter too.

Johan, I had no idea Shark Bay was a modular railroad or do I misunderstand and only the members are going to Germany?

I took the kids to EnterTrainment Junction in West Chester, just north of Cincinnati Ohio.  They had the indoor G stuff running, and the outdoor 7 1/2 Guage running.  We all had fun!

coach joe posted:

Johan, I had no idea Shark Bay was a modular railroad or do I misunderstand and only the members are going to Germany?

Joe: Shark Bay is a modular railroad. The members & S.B.R.- modular railroad going to Germany. It´s a ten days trip.

Johan

One more picture for the Weekend. 

10 days in Germany in October.  Good idea by the members of the club!

coach joe posted:

10 days in Germany in October.  Good idea by the members of the club!

AND I'm sure no beer will be consumed by the club member either

Never!

coach joe posted:

10 days in Germany in October.  Good idea by the members of the club!

Actually November. It´s a nice trip even is hard. 2.5 days goes boat trips Finland-Germany-Finland and must drive a car 1000 kilometer. One day goes when we build Shark Bay layout up. Exhibition takes 4 days, but i think at evening time we time watching Köln City and maybe take a couple beers . It´s really nice, someone like pay our trips, hotel, car rent and we just drive our trains.   

Last year we visit near Frankfurt in Rodgau, where was U.S Conventional 2017. 

Johan

trumptrain posted:

coach joe posted:

10 days in Germany in October.  Good idea by the members of the club!

AND I'm sure no beer will be consumed by the club member either

Maybe one or two or…….

Johan