Good morning SWSAT friends!! As always, wonderful pics and information!
Rich - I love that Watertown NYC photo!!
Brian - very nice photos of N&W switchers! I was poking around Schaeffer's Crossing in Roanoke, Va. yesterday as I stopped off there on my way back from NC. I saw some interesting MOW equipment/locomotives. I will try to get back here today and post some photos.
Tom- thanks for the information regarding the Truman speech! That's certainly an insightful back story and context for the 1946 photograph Rich posted.
Andy - your C - 16 looks terrific! As it is, it could pull your railroads' annual Halloween train " The Gray Ghost ".
All kidding aside, I look forward to seeing your C-16 evolve as you masterfully take it through the stages. Great job!!
Johann - tremendous photos!! Such wonderful detail!!
RSJB - Good to see your Williams 44 tonner at work doing what switchers do best.... switching!!
Steamer ... great photos of prototypes!!
For today - Here are some switchers both real and model. The real loco photos were taken at the Baltimore and Ohio Museum in Baltimore and of course the models are ones that traverse my layout. The B&A number 50 is a GE 70 tonner. The model B&A is a MTH SW 9 of which, evidently, the B&A did own at one time. The Patapsco and Back Rivers ( a Bethlehem Steel road ) is a VO 1000 ( I think?? ) and the model is an MTH VO 1000. I hope MTH makes a B&A 70 tonner! I will be first in line to buy one!!
Have a great weekend everyone!!
