Happy Switcher Saturday everyone.
Great posts everyone from Andy's layout and that GE demonstrator that I never saw before to Bob's High Line shots of the Boxcab to the colorful LGB switcher posted above.
My contribution is my second to last prewar switcher that I bought, my #231. At "Tom's Old Switcher Home" it found ninth life and once again became operational thanks to my friend Bill in Ossining. I repaired both of its marker lights and rebuilt (from copper and JB Weld) one of it's (cab) rear steps and pilot/front step. I love those manual Lionel switches, too. Back to the loco though, the front headlight is angled up from probably the same drop that damaged the pilot/front step. Always being an optimist, it reminds me of Kasey Kasem's line at the end of his long-running American Top 40 radio show, "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars."
Tom
(PS-this is not the last steam switcher that I bought {and posted a separate thread about} which is out at the great Harry Henning's train store for heavy "class" repairs.)
