Labor Day Weekend: Let's See your Workers

Now it's your turn. Show us you RR and any other workers on your layout, and you better treat them right, or you will have problems with the Union. LOL

The boys down at the Tuebitt Freight House.

Working to keep the elevated line running:

This guy not so much!

Yard workers:

Jim

All Gorgeous, so far, great start.

After we post all, or most, of our workers, I will highly recommend that they all join a Union, if they haven't all ready.

Maybe I will take a stab at writing a song for them, promoting Unions the way Pete Seeger did. LOL.

Workin' on the railroad:

Arnold

Enjoying the World's Greatest Hobby

Northwoods Flyer

Great Thread. Here are a few of my workers from around the layout -

Happy Labor Day everyone!

Now we have not only more workers, but also workers in action; they are all heroes. What a glorious Labor Day weekend we will have.

Here are a few of the fellows that I used to work with at NASA just returning from a trip and stopping by at McDonald's to catch a quick bit of lunch.

time

Speaking of Lunch...it looks like its lunch time at General Door and Sash as well, the Food truck is entering the parking lot for its peak business time of the day.

Of course, just like all hard workers, this maintenance crew around the freight house, need to stop by the "Necessary" for a short break.

Happy Labor Day everyone

Don

A couple of guy s trying to get a shipment out before the Labor Day weekend, while the REA driver patiently waits.

Couple of worker scenes ......

At the Gulf Distributor:

Supervisor Jones (Arnold's nephew) , wearing a bright yellow safety vest, watches carefully as a long MPC "J" powered fright rolls out of town on the mainline. Jones has helped the railroad earn a fine safety record.

Here on the Prewar layout the workers are stumped with the 021 illuminated switch mechanism while the 259 patiently waits with its long freight consist to continue along its route. Unfortunately the foreman went back to the yard office for his repair manual  

Elsewhere at the Lionel Terrace Station porters are assisting weekend travelers with the start of their vacation. While the mail carrier just emptied the station mailbox before the start of the holiday weekend. Lets not overlook the newspaper boy selling the evening edition paper to help pass the time for everyone’s journeys.

Let's not forget these hard working guys, who sure get around fast:

Tom

They ain’t workin’

Here are some more workers from my authentic, NYC themed layout -

The seated guy is a Union Featherbedder. He gets $90 an hour but just eats hot dogs all day, per Union contract -

These guys have been on a break for four hours. Don’t bother them -

The Wreck Crew knows no holidays.  They are the First Responders of the railroad, ready to go at a moment's notice.  They can rest after the wreck is cleaned up and the right-of-way is back open.

Tom

Technically my workers this Labor Day weekend are me, myself, and I as I am currently helping Scott Mann with the SD40-2 design matrix and marking up E1 and EA drawings now that Scott, Richard, Santiago, and I have all looked them over.  Since a photo my fingers at a keyboard are pretty boring, this might be more interesting....

What would I do without “Trucker Joe” and “Spotter Sam”. Spotter Sam is one of the best Circus loading style drivers I’ve seen. Trucker Joe can drive anything on wheels and is always there to help.Enjoy your long weekend guys I’ll see you back on the layout Tuesday.

On a less serious note, I think the McCoys are in for some serious trouble!!!!  Well at least they are safe from the storm trooper.  He always misses.

If we stare at it long enough maybe it will start.

Do you know how long it took me to fill this hopper?

Great thread Arnold!!  A tribute to labor   Here's mine!

Roll out the barrel, a popular polka tune .... a tribute to coppersmiths.

A shout out to produce workers.

Gratitude to freight handlers.

A special tribute to railroad workers who keep the trains on track and the freight and passengers flowing.  

Shout out to bus drivers.

Gratitude to US postal workers.

A special tribute to our first responders.

A big nod to our truck drivers.  

A shout out to  auto workers.

A salute to loading dock workers.

A rousing applause to railroad MOW workers.

A big shout out to our construction workers.  My dad was a union master carpenter and my brother a home builder.

A rousing applause to our locomotive crews.

A BIG shout out to our farm workers.

Wow, Patrick, your post was sure an all inclusive tribute to the RR workers.

Favorites of mine are the fork lift operators:

I don’t have a layout or any scenes just yet, so I have to use the 1:1 scale guys from my work place….

Tom

Krieglok, nice job on the 1:1 scale. How did you get all that to fit into your house?😄

Rusty

Bob, have you assigned a crew to the new track cleaning car? These guys could be training.

All of these workers are doing what they do best:

I have a lot of workers on the layout, but here's a few. Two Pullman Porters assisting passengers while RR employees flag the train at the flagstop.

Two 'beach' people here just above the waterfall - one in the boat and the other a sunbather on the rocks

Coke break!

A collection of automobiles I've owned in my youth. That's me at the '53 ford

Be patient son, that Berkshire will be along soon

There's an illicit liquor transaction just to the right of the scene. Move along now, nothing to see

Could these guys (on the right) be workers?

They are bums! LOL.

@GG1 4877 posted:

Technically my workers this Labor Day weekend are me, myself, and I as I am currently helping Scott Mann with the SD40-2 design matrix and marking up E1 and EA drawings now that Scott, Richard, Santiago, and I have all looked them over.  Since a photo my fingers at a keyboard are pretty boring, this might be more interesting....

@GG1 4877 Thanks. Now I'm feeling even more like a small-mouth (bass) observing a lure (aka B&O EA) especially knowing that "the sun sets" soon on the much more than enticing Sunset offering.

A couple more workers keeping things moving on the A.T.&S.F.

Watch this 7 sec. video and see a hard working dude in action: