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I'm super excited about attending the Great Scale Model Train Show in Timonium, Maryland which takes place Saturday & Sunday Feb. 1&2 at the Maryland State Fair Grounds. I'll be there on Sunday for sure! Always a great show ... the February GSMTS tends to be the best of the lot offered GSMTS .. IMHO ... a considerable amount of O gauge/scale, lots of great train club layouts in several gauges, how to clinics, trains of all gauges, scenery items, art, books, tools, and videos ... plus chatting and catching up with train friends. Who knows what I may find ... perhaps a switcher I can't live without???
This week I'm showing my Patapsco and Back Rivers VO1000 switcher No. 146 shuffling cars at Butler Junction in Patsburg. This is a MTH RailKing Scale model with PS2 equipped with a BCR.
As a bit of backstory as to how I acquired this locomotive: This engine came up on E bay ( back in 2016 ). Bidding was closing the night I had a recording session at a studio in DC. I "really wanted" this engine in order to complete the short line/switching railroad dimension of my collection! At the time PB&R engines rarely came up for auction and were rare as hens teeth. During the recording session I placed my cell phone on my music stand so I could follow the bidding and place a last second bid if needed ... which I didn't have to do. Needless to say I won the bid. Number 146 has been a good runner and problem free all these years!
The Patapsco and Back Rivers Railroad ( PB&R ) is one of four short lines/switching railroads I model. The real PB&R was one of several railroads owned by the Bethlehem Steel Corp. The PB&R served the once massively sprawling Bethlehem Steel Plant and Shipyard complex located in Sparrows Point, Maryland, just outside Baltimore City. In addition to serving Bethlehem Steel, the railroad also served about a dozen or so other customers/industries in the immediate vicinity of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation complex at Sparrows Point. The PB&R owned and operated a large fleet of switchers ( usually 2 person crews ) to handle slag & hot metal/bottle cars .. work the yard ... and service on line customers. The PB&R interchanged with the 3 major railroads of Baltimore ... B&O, Western Maryland, and the Pennsy.
PBR employees affectionately referred to the PB&R as the "Bush Bump and Ram". 
Have a FUN- TASTIC and safe weekend everyone!! Happy Ground Hogs Day ( Feb 2 )!! Keep those switches aligned, attend to your switch lists, and green signals to all!!! See ya next week right here at Switcher Saturday!!
About to drop off a B&O Wagon top boxcar, number 146 pulls through a switch.
146 has dropped off the B&O boxcar on Team Track One. 
Crossing the grade at Patsburg Ave., folks on the ground have this view of 146. 
Brakeman Issac Moody rides the front deck of 146. He's thinking to himself "It's going to be a good day of switching!" 
