Good morning fellow switcher fans!! JHZ thanks for notching out the throttle and getting us rolling today!
I love the demo of the NYC switcher whistle and what sounds to be an post war Lionel air whistle .... although the air whistle could be a digitally recorded version such as the one that comes with the MTH work caboose? There's a HUGE difference in the sounds for sure! Wonderful photos and videos everyone! Daniel - enjoy the process of restoring your Atlas switcher and please show photos once completed. The only Atlas O switcher I have is an RS-1 and I enjoy it immensely!
Strap - that's a nice looking Bang ( and yes they were a good "Bang for the buck" back in the day ) and I love the Plymouth/Bang consist as well ... very unusual ... and rest assured I will not try that at my home lol! Btw - you have a terrific looking layout!
RSJB - Got to love those FM H10-44 switchers! Raymond Lowey did a nice job with their styling. Too bad the FM opposed piston engine was not railroad friendly. One day ( funds willing ) I hope to have a H10-44 on the FSJR in B&O livery. Thanks for posting your photo of this locomotive and re-wetting my appetite for this cool looking switcher.
MELGAR - your SW1500 looks great! Is that NYC boxcar the MTH signal man boxcar? If so how do you like it?
Today on the Free State Junction Railway B&O Dockside 97 has spotted a passenger train at the station. In the background, that train, now full of passengers, is pulling away from the station as a slow moving freight moves through the station.
Brakemen Buster Brown & Feet Murchison ride the footboard. Any second now Buster will jump off the locomotive and align the switch so the Dockside can duck in the hole ...making way for a passenger train. Meanwhile the BL-2 on the adjacent track is stopped at a red signal. Its' headend brakeman, Fluffy Peerson, steps onto the front porch for some fresh air. 
The BL-2 was ordered to pull ahead a few hundred feet and hold at the station as a Pennsy GG-1, with bell clanging, gracefully glides its' train in to the station. 
Once the GG-1 has cleared, 97 is out of the hole and back onto the main headed toward its' next assignment.
And .... that assignment is to pull this load of farm equipment from the team track. Looks like the loading crew is not quite finished buckling things down yet. Good time for 97's crew to take a coffee break. 
