Switcher Saturday-Mark II, 10-05-2019

Happy Switcher Saturday.

Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes #11 is a Bachmann On30 model of a Baldwin 2-4-4T Forney narrow-gauge tank engine that I purchased around 2010. The SR&RL was a two-foot narrow-gauge railroad that ran in Franklin County, Maine between 1908 and 1935, although its predecessor railroads began operating in the late 1800s. Forney’s were tank engines that ran well forwards and in reverse. The model is 1:48 O-scale with a full-size track gauge of 30 inches and runs on HO gauge track. Although it is not a switcher, I think it is small enough to be considered a “critter” for inclusion in Switcher Saturday, Mark II. These pictures were taken with the model’s wheel flanges between the middle and an outside rail on my O gauge layout. In the last photo, the small size of 2-4-4T #11 is shown in comparison with my Lionel #1615 0-4-0 switcher. Both engines are the same scale. I have been collecting On30 locomotives with the intention of someday building a narrow-gauge layout but these highly detailed models are very small and fragile, so I have hesitated because I’m not sure how well they would operate.

Addendum: As best I can tell, the SR&RL never had a #11 locomotive. Bachmann’s 2-4-4T looks very similar to #10 which was two-foot gauge rather than the 2-1/2-foot gauge of the On30 model.

Photos by:

MELGAR

Happy SWSAT! Buzz is moving empty Pig flats  around Have a great weekend 

It's SwSat!

#1545 doing what switchers do best: switching the paint factory. The gray P&LE tank and the orange B&P box will be pulled and the remaining four cars will be drilled for correct spotting: (right to left) yellow UP box, TTX box, Santa Fe tank, brown UP box. All in a day's switch-work.

Happy SWSat!

My little Lionel 1615 still in good running condition even if being sixty years old....

Have a nice weekend,  Daniel

                           MTH 44 tonner New York Dock Railway at NJ Hirailers.

PAUL ROMANO posted:

                           MTH 44 tonner New York Dock Railway at NJ Hirailers.

Great pics Paul

I know this is of typic but what year did the UP do that Boxcar? Thanks 

Lee, I believe Union Pacific started using the "automated railroad" logo in the sixties.

  BN SD24s at NJ Highrailers. I added Mars lights, air horns and had powered unit upgraded to 3V PS2.

PAUL ROMANO posted:

Lee, I believe Union Pacific started using the "automated railroad" logo in the sixties.

Huh. According to UP the "Campbells soup can" logo was only used for 10 months in 1962:

https://www.up.com/heritage/hi...logo/logo8/index.htm

The Automated Rail Way map/logo I believe came in with the soup can logo. At the UP webpage linked to, the Shield&Map livery started in 1963. That agrees with my [very] faded memory 

Lew, I'm in the same boat my memory is faded too.........

Lots of nice switchers once again!  The Railking Western Maryland 0-8-0 arrived earlier in the week.  It is one of the few Railking Scale steam engines I am aware of.  It certainly didn't disappoint!

Mark, that Fireball looks right at home shoving that Bessemer boxcar.

I have spent a lot of hours bicycling on the old Wild Mary grade and since I grew up listening to Geeps and Covered wagons on the B&O I would always imagine the bellow of a brace of 567s in Notch 8 climbing the long grade from Ohiopyle to Deal (my favorite part of the railtrail).

Steam was about done by the time I was old enough to start noticing but I do remember a couple occasions of a Pacific on the front end of a short B&O passenger train on the Pittsburgh-Buffalo line. 

PAUL ROMANO posted:

  BN SD24s at NJ Highrailers. I added Mars lights, air horns and had powered unit upgraded to 3V PS2.

I'm so old I remember watching out ahead at night and seeing the Mars Light swinging back-and-forth lighting first to the one side and then the other. I don't remember what train(s) it was/were but was (of course) sitting in the front seat of the Dome looking ahead through the windshield.

geysergazer posted:

Mark, that Fireball looks right at home shoving that Bessemer boxcar.

I have spent a lot of hours bicycling on the old Wild Mary grade and since I grew up listening to Geeps and Covered wagons on the B&O I would always imagine the bellow of a brace of 567s in Notch 8 climbing the long grade from Ohiopyle to Deal (my favorite part of the railtrail).

Steam was about done by the time I was old enough to start noticing but I do remember a couple occasions of a Pacific on the front end of a short B&O passenger train on the Pittsburgh-Buffalo line. 

Thank you Lew!

Yes indeed!!  I grew up listening the the Geeps and Covered Wagons on the B&O going up Bakerstown hill on the way to Pittsburgh!  Sometimes they miscalculated and had to stop for helpers around Valencia!

My maternal grandfather was a fireman on the Pittsburgh to Buffalo line before WWI.  They would go as far as Mount Jewett and go back to Pittsburgh.  He enlisted when America entered WWI for his second stint in the Marines.  He was in The Philippines in the 190_s.  Alas, he was permanently disabled by mustard gas and fell into a trench in France helping a wounded soldier back to safety.  He received RR Retirement from the B&O, which my grandma collected until her passing in 1978.

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday.

Very cool looking crane, Johan. Arnold

Because it's so dark&gloomy here this AM:

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy Switcher Saturday.

Very cool looking crane, Johan. Arnold

Arnold. Thank you. I scratch build that crane.

Johan

Johan, nice modeling with the crane!

geysergazer posted:

Johan, nice modeling with the crane!

Lew. Thank you. 🤝

Johan

Lew, Yohan, Melgar Arnold, Mark, Paul, Lee, Frenchtrains, RSJB18, and to anyone I may have missed, thank you for helping with another switcher Saturday.

 I have had to work the past couple weekends so I can’t follow too much during the day.  It’s nice to see all the cool posts when I have time to catch up. 

JHZ563,

I hope you keep up the good work - on SWSAT-MarkII and at your regular employment.

MELGAR

JHZ, Thank you!!

Hi Guys 

Thanks for sharing your pictures

I recently bought another Mth Railking Scale Rs-3 in NYC System colors .  It is P&LE with the NYC Stripe 

It runs great with it's sister seen in the picture . 

JHZ thank you for keep this going see you next week