I love switcher locos. Show me what you got running on your layout. If you've converted one to DCC or DCC with sound I'd love to hear how you did it as well.
On my current layout I have a pair of Atlas MP15's in Southern Pacific. These are both shown here in Battle Mountain, Nevada. I got number 2690 quite a few years ago when this model first came out and put in what at the time was a small wired DCC decoder. I have a post on my DCC blog about that installation....here's the link: https://n-scale-dcc.blogspot.com/search/label/Loco: Atlas MP15DC I got number 2696 just about a year ago and it got a TCS MP15N decoder which was made specially for this model, a much easier installation. I've also got a few other switchers from previous layouts, mostly Life Like SW's.
Here are only two of my switchers. 1st = KATO with a DZ123 decoder, I also have the #1313. Both SP tiger stripes 2nd = Life Like with Zimo621 decoder. Decked out in my "Home Road" that I use in an industrial area.. I also have a Micro Trains SP # 2471, but it is currently in the backshop getting pickups rebuilt. Stay well, Carl
100_0755-1 by John Moore posted Oct 30, 2020 at 3:34 AM 4 70 tonners, 3 44 tonners, and 2 WDTs provide the main power of the Turtle Creek for locals and switching. Electrics provide the main freight power.
Not a great shot but currently my only switcher. It's a Life Like unit that runs extremely well. Have thought about converting it to a SW1500 by replacing the shell and truck with a set from MT but just can't make up my mind.
I posted this in June 2019, but here are the links to a 70-tonner I worked on. Sorry I don't have updated photos to share right now. Stay safe
Remember, you asked! N scale SP SW1200 #2282 built from a LL SW9/1200. Re-motored and has LokSound Select Micro installed... N scale SP SW1200 #2278 built from LL SW9/1200. Digitrax decoder installed... N scale SP SW1500's (#2469, 2539, 2596, 2642 and 2689) kitbashed using Atlas MP15DC parts and a Concor/Kato switcher drives. Zimo decoders installed.... N scale SP MP15AC #2718 kitbashed from Atlas MP15. Digitrax decoder installed...
And my electrics. Steeple cabs assigned to mine service. 100_0399-4 by John Moore posted Aug 7, 2020 at 7:34 PM And my two 44 tonner hybrids. Overhead wire, third rail, and diesel powered. 100_0564-5 by John Moore posted Sep 8, 2020 at 7:14 PM
Here are some of mine: This is the plant switcher for Trona-Rodd Small Engines. Brion Boyles cobbled it together from cabooses, a few other parts and put it onto an MDT chassis. He built it as an inspection engine. I added an exhaust stack and air tank and made a plant switcher out of it. It never was powered. I couple it to a powered boxcar so that it can work. This is the plant switcher that Number Fourteen replaced. Trona-Rodd Small Engines keeps it as a backup for when Number Fourteen is in the shop. The ATSF fifty foot boxcar to which it is coupled is powered. It has a LL FA-1 power chassis. The tank engine is an old LL 0-6-0T that fried its motor. If you take out some, but not all, of the gearing and put some weight into the locomotive, it freewheels nicely. This is the Nopedale switcher. It is at Short Creek Junction at the mail, express and baggage facility. It is an Atlas Baldwin VO-1000
This is the backup switcher for Nopedale. It is the latest version of the B-mann USRA 0-6-0 with a SPECTRUM USRA standard tender swapped for the stock tender. This is the main freight power for the Short Creek and Nopedale. The NW-2s are Kato (Numbers Ten and Eleven). The SW (Number Thirteen) is an LL that fried its motor, so it is a dummy. The passenger trains are still steam powered.
Here’s some photos of my only switcher an Missouri Pacific MP15 DC from Atlas with DCC. Although I purchased this locomotive as an DC only as I thought. It came with a decoder and yes it is marked decoder ready. I was told that this was a new locomotive. I did check the wheels for wear and they were without markings. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Some fine pictures with great backgrounds and train scene's. Envious as all get out. Pullman green, that is! Well, here's my Southern Pacific switchers.