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It is a cold December day in 1949 and the shifters are busy.  An H10, usually working a local, is working the yard today and is the yardmaster's favorite engine.  Like the C1 in back, it can move a lot of cars but unlike the C1 is more reliable on the less than perfect track of the east yard.  The H10 was a good engine and the Pennsy kept many of them to the end of steam.  The C1, however, will be gone in a couple of years.

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The engines are Weaver models and the cars are Atlas O.

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rtraincollector posted:

I pulled out some of my switchers today, as I'm trying to go thru my engines and give them what I call a tune-up ( clean and relube etc ) every pic here is a different engine, I have some duplicates. IMG_8769

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Photos and video show New York Central steam switchers 0-4-0 #901 and 0-6-0 #231 double-headed on my 10’-by-5’ layout. These are older MTH Premier models with PS-2 that I have been running double-headed in conventional mode for years. Together, they sound like an articulated locomotive and are the most interesting motive power that fits on the layout.

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Happy SWSat!

Lot's of great pix so far

This week the PRR shop foreman called the FM-10-44 into the shops for repairs. The engine is making some strange noises and the crew doesn't want to risk blowing a control board out. A NW-2 was put out on the switching jobs as a very able replacement.

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On the other side of town the crew on the Plymouth is shifting a few cars for customers.

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Everyone have a great weekend.

Bob

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Guys - GEYSERGAZER, I apologize for not following all the rules, but I just couldn't get this posted yesterday.  I figured better a day late than not at all.

The Rock Island switch crew is moving a few home cars around late in the day.  Just trying to avoid that "per diem" charge because someone on an earlier shift left that RI  boxcar in the wrong yard.  Now it's another short trip (but its 2 hr min OT rule) to get it home, then Sunday dinner! 

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Have a good week All!

Don McErlean

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