Hello Switcher Saturday crew. Our nation mourns again this weekend, even as we head into a weekend of remembrance for our honored dead from over a century ago. I have children basically the same age as those ripped away from their families in TX this week, and a brother who is a high school teacher. I can't begin to understand what those families are going through.
I hope to bring a little levity and joy. So for this weekend's thread we will kickoff with probably the most whimsical Switcher locomotive I have, the Lionel Crayola locomotive .
Now, for those that don't know, Switcher Saturday is a recurring weekly thread celebrating the smaller locomotives that do the big work of railroading. Switcher Saturday is open to all scales and gauges. The only rules to Switcher Saturday are to keep things somehow Switcher related, follow the ogr tos regarding pictures, and have fun.
Have a good weekend folks.
From Wikipedia:
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders Fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
