Hello fellow switcher fans and welcome to Switcher Saturday April 6 , 2024 Edition!! It's an honor to welcome you aboard If you love those little locomotives that do big things, serving as the backbone of any railroad, then you are in the right place. Switcher Saturday welcomes all gauges/scales from N - G and 1:1 gauge/scale too.
I hope that any of you who were affected by the earthquake here on the east coast, are personallly unharmed and your property is undamaged. I was in Baltimore at the time of the quake and felt nothing shaking or rumbling while folks in other parts of the city and surrounding areas did feel & hear something.
For me personally, this week has been back to busy - ness as usual after being on spring break last week leading up to Easter ... no teaching ( entertained company ) and only one gig. This week, I did get some time in to work on my layout , however due to sections of the layout being torn up, I didn't have time to take new photos for this week's SwSat ... So I've dug into my photo archives. Next week I should have new photos up and ready.
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Please post your photos, videos, and information regarding switchers. It's always exciting to see what everyone posts each week! As always, I can't wait to see what content you all post this week too! We learn so much from one another !
I hope everyone will have a terrific weekend and that you get some train running time in and when you do ... may that time include running your switchers! Have a wonderful week! Green signals to all!!
I've loved the ALCO RS type locomotive ever since I saw my first RS type locomotive, by Lionel, back in the late 1950s. I believe it was a RS 3 and my eyes could not get enough of this engine! I saw it in a department store in Baltimore and then, of course in the Lionel catalogue. It came to be that the RS 1 has become my favorite of all the early ALCO RS type locomotives, due to the overhanging cab roof. None of the other early RS locomotives had this feature. IMHO the roof overhang bestows a certain character and charm unto the RS1.
Here is Washington Terminal Co. RS 1 number 63 doing some switching on the Free State Junction Railway. Here we see the crew on a morning break ... hogger Sully Braxton stretches his legs on the ground, brakeman Jake "The Break" Willis and conductor C.J. Beardsley stand on the engine's deck. An apprentice brakeman, Flip Wiggins, is on the ground practicing his hand signals. A non crew member drags a pallet.
This is my only Atlas O engine. It's equipped with TMCC and has great sound.
Flip giving hand signals to Sully who is now in the locomotive's cab.