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The Nifty Shifter... As some may recall, I wrote in last week's SwSat that I was going to attend The Great Scale Model Train Show in Timonium, Maryland last Sunday. Well I did just that and it was a great show and very well attended! Bob ( RSJB18 ) had commented last week that he'd hope a switcher would follow me home. Well sure enough Bob, be careful what you wish for, because that's exactly what happened! .... One followed me home .. LOL!! ( Thank you Bob!! ) AND one of the perks that come with it is .. I now feel I've joined the "SwSat 0-6-0T Docksider Club because many of you have this same switcher and have shown it on SwSat ... albeit yours may have the latest tech upgrade. Mine runs only conventional, as it's from when Lionel first came out with these nifty little shifters. I saw this little fella ( with very little wear on the wheels and rollers ) at the show and negotiated what I felt was a good price for it. It looks great and runs great on the layout. I have flagged this locomotive for priority weathering. I find it's a bit too shiny and needs a bit of schmutzing up.
Got to give it that " I've been working on the railroad for many years and sparsely bathed " look .. LOL!
Just arriving on the FSJR property number 194 pauses so the "brass" can check it out. Road Foreman of Engines, A.J. Crowley's Cadillac has just pulled into a parking space. A.J. will be here shortly puffing on his pipe and giving 194 the "once over".
There o'l A.J. decked out in his Panama hat smoking his pipe over to the left.. Engineer Rooster McLeod tips his hat to number 194. Rooster says "she handles like a dream and runs smoother than a baby's bottom". That feller standing on the front pilot step is Stringbean Zucker. He's the assigned brakeman. You can hardly see o'l Stringbean because he's turned sideways. Every dagburn time he turns side ways he practically disappears. Go figure! 
194's first assignment is to bring this boxcar to the car shop. 
Although not a switcher, this postwar Lionel firefighting car also followed me home last Sunday. It will run occasionally on my trolly line and the Mountain Division. I alway thought this car was pretty cool when I was a kid! When the vendor made me a deal I couldn't refuse, I said "Wrap it up because I'm taking it home!" .. LOL!
