Good morning fellow switcher fans! JHZ563 thanks so much for notching out the throttle and getting us rolling this morning and I hope you enjoyed the pumpkin pie and coffee .... one of the best tasting combos there is
Great posts everyone!! I truly hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving day and you are enjoying this weekend!
Today on the Free State Railway I've got some fresh shots of a Fairbanks Morse Train Master in Virginian livery. Technically a road switcher that, like the EMD series GP 7 & 9s and ALCOS RS 1 & 3 from the same era as the Train Master, did it all from manifest freights to passenger trains to yard duty. Here we see it emerging from Northeast Tunnel. Yesterday this locomotive pulled the first train on the FSJR mainline since very early August.
The Train Master pictured here is a Williams by Bachman model. As a kid, back in the late 50s, I drooled over this beauty ( as I did the GG1 & Santa Fe F3  
as I saw it on the shelves at train and department stores. Of course Santa had brought me a 027 layout ( A great one at that! ) which would not accommodate the turning radius required by these locomotives ... plus they were out of my parent's budget range too
Of course bringing home the Lionel catalogue allowed me to further drool ... LOL!! I think that part of the fun of this hobby is the yearning for something that we can't have ... somehow, at least for me , the "yearning" helps stimulate the imagination. Have a wonderful weekend everyone and enjoy your trains!!
Engineer Curley Dingle wishes everyone on SWSAT a very happy Thanksgiving weekend!! 
