Switcher Saturday February 5, 2022

Good morning fellow switcher fans!  Thanks Bob for pinch hitting for JHZ563 today!   Here are a some switchers of the Free State Junction Railway minus the Pennsy PA 1.   I'm off to the Great Scale Train Show in Timonium Maryland today.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!

We had snow the past few days, so out goes the plow!

Happy Switcher Saturday!

Happy Switcher Sat everyone and thanks to Bob for filling in and kicking things off.  Yesterday, my 44 tonner was tasked with subway track cleaning duties.

@Strap Hanger posted:

Happy Switcher Sat everyone and thanks to Bob for filling in and kicing things off.  Yesterday, my 44 tonner was tasked with subway track cleaning duties.

Good idea Strap. I need to get my MOW crew in gear and do the same.

Bob

PS- Somehow "Subway" and "Track Cleaning" don't seem to go together.......

Happy SWSAT everyone. Bob thanks for kicking us off. Here’s a Weaver RS-3 Reading with some vintage  Atlas O car and another Weaver RS-3 I’m making a Dummy to pair up with the Power unit. Enjoy your weekend and stay warm and safe

A busy day for the yard's new FS10.

MTH H10-44

Hey, anyone heard from JHZ? Hope he’s ok and just sleeping in after a fun night out with the kids.

With all the snow, I took the opportunity to sort through some stuff that has accumulated through the years.  I came across some photos of a family vacation to St. Louis we took over 20 years ago.  I found this picture of the Army gas turbine switcher at the National Museum of Transportation and my first thought was "Switcher Saturday!"

Just for comparison, here is a photo of my Lionel model.

Tom

This was a beat-up “44” ton NP switcher I cleaned up and repainted as a Lackawanna, numbered after a real unit. I also added an MRC diesel sound module.

Happy Switcher Saturday.

ATS&F NW2 no. 2719 heads North with a local freight.  A train of empty ore cars on their way back to the mines passes on the Southbound track.

John

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday.

Stunning scenes as usual!  Wow.  Thanks for sharing!  

Greetings from a very windy SoCal everyone.
I wanted to share with you my latest layout improvement, some flat rock formations by “Woodland Scenics. “
These come in several configurations in convenient six-packs ready to be detailed or just placed on the layout w/o alteration.
What you see here is the unchanged castings straight from the box.
I have several others placed around my layout and they give a rugged terrain look to my desert-to-mountain theme.
The pieces are also cut to fit together side by side if you wish, but I used them individually.
If you have a mountain railroad, I recommend these ready-to-use forms highly. The hardest part is simply placing them so they look realistic!

And a package has a MSRP of just $25!

(To keep the switching theme here, that’s my new MTH Railking SW1 in Great Northern livery in the background.)    

@Strap Hanger posted:

Hey, anyone heard from JHZ? Hope he’s ok and just sleeping in after a fun night out with the kids.

I'm Alive,  just exhausted.   Its been a long  few days at work, orchestrating repairs to a 4000 hp fan.  I appreciate you asking about me.

Here's me and some other in the bearing tunnel last night.

And the discharge end of the same fan, about 18' across on the inside diameter.   It was misbehaving and needed some serious attention.

To keep it Switcher related, more archive shots....

A Reading and Northern unit a friend of mine shot last fall.

And an mth 0-6-0 with P&LE sub-lettering.

Have a good day guys.

@Dave Warburton posted:

Stunning scenes as usual!  Wow.  Thanks for sharing!  

Dave. Many thanks. Soon my layout will be 40% ready. The most busy projects of the future will be the construction of a port and a paper mill.

Johan

Have a great weekend everyone! Awesome looking stuff!

Well SwSat Fans, I am a little late today, catching up around the house just took up the day and time flew!  So here are a couple of pictures from my (very small) Hornby collection. Most of the Hornby that I have is not much more than 0-4-0 either tank type or tender, so I believe they qualify under jhz's rules.  By the way jhz glad you are OK and just busy, fixing that huge fan must have been an interesting though tiring job.

So here is the LMS (London, Midland,&Scotland) hard working tank engine (clockwork)  with a small train just exiting the depot.

Here is a short branch line passenger train, in command of the Hornby Type 51 British Rail (post nationalization)  tender locomotive (clockwork).

Best wishes for the rest of the weekend

Don

Another great SWSat!

Thanks to all for posting their pix and scenes. I had planned to do another post yesterday but the CEO had other plans for me.

@jhz563- that's one big#$s fan.  I'm guessing cooling tower? Our biggest air handler is 100 HP with a 8' diameter fan.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Time to rest up for the Super Bowl