Welcome one and all to Switcher Saturday September 14, 2024 edition!!!
A vast majority of us who frequent this thread love those small ( and not so small ) locomotives that can perform all the tasks given by any railroad. Yep! Switchers do it all ... switching in yards, at the point of way freights, industrial switching, switching at larger passenger stations, heading a MOW train ... including pushing snow plows, switching tight curvature on city streets in harbor areas, at the point of commuter passenger trains and long distance passenger trains. 
Switcher Saturday (SwSat) welcomes your photos, videos, and information/discussion regarding switching locomotives, steam, diesel, and electric of all gauges and scales from Z - G ... and even real life 1:1 scale too! We'd be honored to have you join us by posting pics and videos of your switchers. We'd also love reading any information regarding toy, model, or prototypical switchers.
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I hope everyone has a most enjoyable weekend! May you spend time running some trains and in particular switchers! Keep your switches aligned ... green signals to all!
This week on the Free State Junction Railway a B&O SW9 heads a way freight. Here the train is making its' way into town having just come off the main line at Butler Junction. The team track to the right is vacant only for a few more minutes. Soon the SW9 will push a flat car loaded with heavy equipment onto the track.
Veteran engineer Herb Junker slows the train to a crawl as the flat car loaded with heavy equipment is destine to be dropped off onto the team track. Brakeman Whistling Willie Dean, having stepped off the locomotive, relays hand signal to the fireman in the cab who will tell Herb to stop the train at a certain point. After Herb brings thetrain to a stop the rear end brakeman will uncouple the flat car from the rest of the train. Conductor Earl Jennings will stay put in the caboose due to a bout of the Hershey squirts.
After dropping off the loaded flatcar, the crew will pick up the boxcars waiting on the siding by the coaling tower. 
Rear end brakeman Wilkie Renwick is about to pull the uncoupling bar. He first gives the flatcar's cargo a quick admiring glance. 
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Here is mine. It has also been upgraded, but only minimally and not as well. I do not run the engine much, and this long video of it doing some shifting was done many years ago.
