Happy Switcher Saturday everyone!
I am pitch-hitting, for our friend Rich Murnane, aka Super Dad, who is busy with train club duties today and will check in later in the day/weekend.
First is our humble creed:
We are a bunch of humble, switcher-loving, do-gooders who love all things switcher-related. So, if you have a switcher, have a picture of a switcher or smell like a switcher, post your switcher pictures, here! 
We are "bookended" by the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad (who doesn't love Big Boy 4014?) on Friday and Mother's Day on Sunday. Be sure to remember your moms!
So...In honor of these two important events, I thought I would show one of my favorite pictures that I have taken. Here is my most recently acquired #228 in a "panning" shot where the locomotive is in focus, but what should be round peg holes are seen as being oval. Note too that the rods are in the socially acceptable down position!
A prior owner has swapped the prewar couplers for postwar couplers....
Before my other friend Dave/Steamer points out my peculiarity (yes, one of many!), that I have more than one of the number #228's, I need to again state that I do not own more than 0.026666666666667% of the production run of Lionel’s 15,000 #228’s. Boy, if I did, that would really be a problem! 
So, lets see those switchers!
Tom
