Good morning fellow switcher fans!! Thanks JHZ563 for notching out the throttle and getting us rolling this morning!
As usual you guys have terrific info, photos and videos posted already this morning! I learn so much from this thread by reading your info seeing your photos and videos .... thank you all May you all have a terrifically fun weekend!!
Today Free State Junction Railway company photographer, I.C. Thrulenz, shares his portfolio entitled " It's All About the A5".
I.C. shot this photo from the top steps of the switch tower as he captured the A 5 just having pulled away from the coaling tower as it's coal bunker runneth over. Conductor Ike Croutch and hogger Max Cundy chat on the ground as fireman Hokie Joe Barns keeps a sharp eye on the gauges. 
I.C. used a special lens to make the A5 look larger than life in this photo. I.C. loves the A5 and in his mind the A5 is larger than life! What can I say ... I.C. is an artiste!! 
Rounding the bend and crossing the grade at Patsburg Ave. 
An Sw 9 and GP9 frame the A5 on the far track. Brakeman Hank Lyons thought this shot was to be of him but, little did he know, I.C. had is lens focused on none other than the A5. 
