some 0-6-0t's

Dapole Warrington A loco received from a English friend Kenny F. a very smooth running engine.

frank 

Here is a 0-4-0t the Diapol 0-4-0t "PUG"

Another loco from Kenny.

A 0-6-0t again

My Hornby "Harry"

a pair of Mainline 0-6-0t's

 Mainline 0-6-0t LNER #581

Barclay 06

How about this one?

THis is a British Railways class 06 shunter as supplied by Barclay in Kilmarnock, Scotland.

The model is a 7mm scale etched brass kit fitted with DCC sound.  It runs beautifully - it can go right down to speed step 1 when it barely moves - but keeps moving thanks to the rear axle rocking and a stay-alive unit.

Best wishes.

O scale narrow gauge

Kerr Stewart Joffre 0-6-0T (Locosnstuff kit 1/43.5)

Generic 0-4-0T (Aru Model 1/48 kit, same for the van)

Both are DCC with sound

Proto 2000 Heritage -- Frisco

Bachmann 0-6-0 with MDC Tender

United Omaha 0-6-0

This was my first brass loco, bought when I was a teen back in the mid-60s in Dayton, Ohio where my dad was stationed with the AF. I had it custom painted and lettered for my Eureka and South Pass RR, which didn't get its own layout until 2017. Has some operating issues, but I still love it.

More British

A selection, of which only one would count as a yard shunter. 

An 1870s LBSCR 0-6-0 tank engine, named Burgundy. Probably the only one built as a shunter.  

A pair of 0-4-2 tanks from the 1860s.  

A pair of Terriers - suburban passenger locos.

And finally a 0-6-0 goods loco 

Best wishes 

Eric 

You made a really good point, Burgundy.

You make a good point about the fact that not all 0-?-0's and 0-?-2's are yard switchers.  I was just using the term "yard switchers" as a sort of blanket term (at least, I think that's the right word for it).  In previous posts I have included titles featuring the primary wheel configuration classes in the selection of classes featured, but this weeks post covered such an astoundingly high number of wheel config. classes that I had to create some sort of general term, and since most of the classes were primarily used as yard switchers, I used the yard switcher stereotype.  But you make a good point that these locomotives are used for more than just switching (moreso in Britain than in America).

Roundhouse 0-6-0

pretending to be a CPR U-3-c.  (There never was a 6189, so we have a bit of latitude there.)

David

O scale standard gauge stand-in.

Hi all,

Meet "Elizabeth"  (aka "Betty") an Ixion Hudswell Clarke saddle-tank locomotive, standing in for one of the two smaller 0-6-0 side-tank locomotives built by Yorkshire Engine Works (UK) that worked the screens at Corrimal Colliery from 1886 to 1964.

A similar locomotive worked Catherine Hill Bay Colliery about 100 miles north of Corrimal. That's a good enough excuse for a "probable" stand-in,

Metre Gauge Switcher

Hi all,

Now for something different, a metre-gauge diesel switcher of the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn (MGB) parked near Zermatt station in Switzerland in 2018.

Sorry for the funny angle, but I was dodging buildings and fencing to get the shot from the adjacent street that was below track level. Some people do park their switchers in some inconvenient spots for photography.  

Granite Rock 10

In my era, Granite Rock 10 (an ex-USATC S100) pulls excursion trains at the California Railroad Museum, but since I haven't gotten around to modeling the excursion cars yet it just gets used for occasional switching duty on the transition-era club layout.

The low-down at Sacramento

Hi all,

And now for another "something different" this time from the US - as seen on the turntable at the California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento in 2013, Klamath Northern #206.by Baldwin (US) 

Other more detailed photos may be available.

See, you don't have to be tall to be a really useful engine 

Some of mine

Six of mine.

NRLCo. #5

Indian 2 foot gauge

Also available with wheels. 

What I was really there for. Footplate crew of 4. 

Yes. With outside cylinders and a short wheelbase, they roll, pitch and yaw on the way up to Darjeeling.

Best wishes 

Eric  

My two CNR 0-8-0s.

My two CNR 0-8-0s.

Len. that is one nice

Len. that is one nice interesting little loco. I like the weathering too. What is the story behind it. Is it a kit? I'm going to look up what N.L.R.C. is in the meantime.

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Loading Iron Ore

CNW 0-6-0 M-2 #2132 shoves ore cars for loading at the Newport Mine near Ironwood, MI. Dozens of these switchers did duty servicing the mines of the Gogebic Range during the steam era. The engine is a brass Trains Inc. import which was regeared and remotored.

The track was occasionally slid closer to the stockpiles to accommodate the loading shovels.

Here is my latest addition

Here is my latest addition.

A MDC new-old stock kit.

Drivers were out of gauge on the axles, the linkage shorts out when it touchs the wheel rims.

It drives a bit jerky.  More tuning required. Maybe a new bell and some more piping.