Switcher Saturday Mark II !!, 7-25-2020

Happy SWSat!

Good to see you JHZ, I had just started the thread and shortly after posting, yours appeared. I deleted mine but here's the good part.

This week the crew of PRR 5994, a FM H10-44 (MTH), has been called on to run the excursion train for the local scenic RR. The crew didn't mind one bit, much easier to run some coaches around all day than wrestling with cranky freight cars and ground throws. The added bonus is the stop at the Yuengling Brewery

Can't say weather or not they gave it to the crew on 2232, a MP-15 (K-line) as they passed under them

Have a great weekend,

Bob

@RSJB18, thanks for covering,  and nice FM unit!  My daughter is having to learn that bedtime is a real thing.   It could have gone better.  Suffice to say I am not moving real fast this morning. 

@jhz563 posted:

@RSJB18, thanks for covering,  and nice FM unit!  My daughter is having to learn that bedtime is a real thing.   It could have gone better.  Suffice to say I am not moving real fast this morning. 

I don't miss those days. My two are 22 and 16, they still stay up late but I don't have to be awake to put them to bed anymore.

                                   O&W (NYS&W) EMD NW2 #116 at Little Ferry, NJ- Aug. 87'.

                               This engine is currently on the Arkville Railroad in upstate NY. 

                                                                            MY PHOTO

Happy Switcher Saturday - ran these fine engines a bit yesterday, I hope all is well with everyone...Rich 

AC&Y H16-44 #202 goes about its business:

Tom

I stripped my layout table and starting over (again).  My wife thinks I like to work with the layout more than the trains.

I had to move some engines around and got to thinking about how many switchers I have.  Well, here they are:

Northern Pacific switchers on the Seattle & Yakima RR

Good morning fellow switcher fans!  I'm loving what you guys are posting this morning!  Thank you all!  JHZ563 - thanks for notching out the throttle this morning and getting us rolling.   I hope you can find time to take nap today.  Of course coffee always helps too

For this fine edition of SWSAT MARK 2,  I'm showing  " a short time in the life of a Patapsco and Back Rivers  Baldwin VO-1000 with a EMD SW 1 playing a supporting role.   I've concluded today's post with two photos of postwar locomotives.  

Here we have the P&BR VO 1000 emerging from East Tunnel pulling a transfer freight from Easterly  Yard to West Town Yard.    The Ma & Pa SW -1 at the point of a milk train is about to enter the tunnel. 

MA&PA's number 70 headend brakeman Hank R. Chif gives the freshly painted VO-1000 an admiring glance.  He's envious of the 400 additional horses under the long hood of the VO-1000 but, at the same time, Hank knows the 600 horses of his SW -1 will get the milk job done. 

Our photographer was laying on his belly to get this shot. 

Freshly out of the paint shop on it's first run.  

The VO - 1000 is approaching the Patsburg Commuter Station.  If there are any hard core train lovers on the platform, their dream may come true in a few seconds, as two freight trains will surround the platform.  

The VO 1000 with SW 9 calf is the power for this transfer freight. 

Rounding the bend and approaching the tower as men unload a boxcar on the team track. 

Ma & Pa number 70 backing into a siding. 

At mile post 6, the sky has given way to a rain shower.  As the Patapsco and Back Rivers RR parent company is Bethlehem Steel Corp, this VO-1000 feels right at home as it trundles past Bohemian Scrap Services .... btw that's Mr. Bo keeping an eye on things. LOL!

On it's return from West Town Yard the VO-1000 picks up a P&BR gondola loaded with lumber. 

Meet the crew: L-R  Jake Larson .. brakeman, Hoghead Harry .. engineer, Skeet Marx .. brakeman, Sneezey Winford ... conductor.   What a cast of characters .. and they do git err done!!  

POSTWAR PARADISE:   The Bollman bridge plays host to a Virginian Train Master as a Santa Fe FA 2 exits a tunnel on the EL, while a Santa Fe Hudson pulls into the commuter station.   The Hudson is by Lionel and was my first locomotive which Santa brought be for Christmas at age 4.  At age 63, she still runs, whistles, and smokes up a storm.  I have the entire original set  ... operating milk car, operating log car, operating NYC Pacemaker boxcar, three dome Sunoco tank car, and Lionel Lines porthole caboose .... fully intact along with the 1033 transformer.

The FA 2 is by Lionel.  I bought an AA pair with grass cutting money when I was in 5th grade.  The Virginian Train Master, by Williams, is a replica of the Lionel post war model which I always drooled over as a young kid but was not in my  ( or better yet my parents )  budget.  These postwar jewels certainly have a wonderful charm all their own and illicit some absolutely wonderful memories.   

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!   As alway be safe and be well!

@trumptrain posted:

Good morning fellow switcher fans!  I'm loving what you guys are posting this morning!  Thank you all!  JHZ563 - thanks for notching out the throttle this morning and getting us rolling.   I hope can find time to take nap today.  Of course coffee always helps too

For this fine edition of SWSAT MARK 2,  I'm showing a " a short time in the life of a Patapsco and Back Rivers  Baldwin VO-1000 with a EMD SW 1 playing a supporting role.   I've concluded today's post with two photos of postwar locomotives.  

Here we have the P&BR VO 1000 emerging from East Tunnel pulling a transfer freight from Easterly  Yard to West Town Yard.    The Ma & Pa SW -1 at the point of a milk train is about to enter the tunnel. 

MA&PA's number 70 headend brakeman Hank R. Chif gives the freshly painted VO-1000 an admiring glance.  He's envious of the 400 additional horses under the long hood of the VO-1000 but at the same time Hank knows the 600 horses of his SW -1 will get the milk job done. 

Our photographer was laying on his belly to get this shot. 

Freshly out of the paint shop on it's first run.  

The VO - 1000 is approaching the Patsburg Commuter Station.  It there are any hard core train lovers on the platform, their dream may come true in a few seconds, as two freight trains will surround the platform.  

The VO 1000 with SW 9 calf is the power for this transfer freight. 

Rounding the bend and approaching the tower as men unload a boxcar on the team track. 

Ma & Pa number 70 backing into a siding. 

At mile post 6, the sky has given way to a rain shower.  As the Patapsco and Back Rivers RR parent company is Bethlehem Steel Corp, this VO-1000 feels right at home as it trundles past Bohemian Scrap Services .... that's Mr. Bo keeping an eye on things. LOL!

On it's return from West Town Yard the VO-1000 picks up a P&BR gondola loaded with lumber. 

Meet the crew: L-R  Jake Larson .. brakeman, Hoghead Harry .. engineer, Skeet Marx .. brakeman, Sneezey Winford ... conductor.   What a cast of characters .. and they do git err done!!  

POSTWAR PARADISE:   The Bollman bridge plays host to a Virginian Train Master as a Santa Fe FA 2 exits a tunnel on the EL, while a Santa Fe Hudson pulls into the commuter station.   The Hudson is by Lionel and was my first locomotive which Santa brought be for Christmas at age 4.  She still runs, whistles, and smokes up a storm.  I have the entire original set  ... operating milk car, operating log car, operating NYC Pacemaker boxcar, three dome Sunoco tank car, and Lionel Lines porthole caboose .... fully intact along with the 1033 transformer.

The FA 2 is by Lionel.  I bought an AA pair with grass cutting money in 6th grade.  The Virginian Train Master, by Williams, is a replica of the Lionel post war model which I always drooled over as a young kid but was not in my  ( or better yet my parents )  budget.  These postwar jewels certainly have a wonderful charm all their own and illicit some absolutely wonderful memories.   

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!   As alway be safe and be well!

Outstanding pics. And layout. The postwar trifecta shot is a special gem. Good work!

Dave - thank you so very much for your very kind compliment!  Much appreciated! 

JHZ563: Thanks for keeping up the thread, most of us know about your experience last night, little guys / girls do not keep regular hrs!!  My SwSAT contribution today is a bit exotic...  Number 50163, a Hornby type 51 engine,  is getting ready to move a carload of fresh (on the hoof) meat to market.  He will pick up other farm loads on the way.  Its the late 50's and steam is still hanging on, especially for local freights in England, but electrification and diesels are just around the corner.

Happy SwSat everyone. 

Don

                     happy "SWSat" !!     have a great weekend everyone !

                          double heading at the Anderson's...  Marci's photo...

@Don McErlean posted:

JHZ563: Thanks for keeping up the thread, most of us know about your experience last night, little guys / girls do not keep regular hrs!!  My SwSAT contribution today is a bit exotic...  Number 50163, a Hornby type 51 engine,  is getting ready to move a carload of fresh (on the hoof) meat to market.  He will pick up other farm loads on the way.  Its the late 50's and steam is still hanging on, especially for local freights in England, but electrification and diesels are just around the corner.

Happy SwSat everyone. 

Don

Good looking Hornby Don!  I have a little clock work one too, although I think yours is larger.  

Good looking stuff this weekend folks.  Patrick you went above and beyond ( which is becoming your usual!)

Here we have my 0-6-0 "whistling past the graveyard."  I was getting ready to video some actual switching work this morning but ran out time before my day job - rats!!

jhz563:  Thank you for the complement.  The engine is a Type 51, clockwork as your mentioned.  Its very late post war, middle to late 50's.  It is alas, part of the last breath of Hornby's great O'gauge clockwork line.  Not long after this, Hornby exited from O'gauge altogether and went exclusively with Dubleo HO gauge.  My Hornby book states that in the era of postwar material scarcity they found that with HO they could make 4 times the number of  trains for the same amount of material and sell them for 2X the price! 

Love this thread by the way, I have a very small layout and am pretty much limited to small motive power.  I run mostly postwar or MPC era small Lionel steamers and diesels or Marx.  I have made up a few "transition" cars (mostly old flat cars) that have different couplers on each end, so I can run the engines with various makes of cars. 

Thanks again for this thread

Don