It's #SwitcherSaturday Time!!!!
Lots of us out there love switchers (shifters, docksiders, yard goats, critters, etc.), so lets keep #SwitcherSaturday (a.k.a. SWSAT) rolling!
If you missed last week's SWSAT, you should go take a look, it was lots of fun!
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Today at the RiCH RR (Richmond, Chesapeake, Hudson Railroad) we a little old MTH dockside/tanker switcher trying out a new shelf, which is going to get mounted on the front of the portion of my layout where the yard is. I saw a few layouts on facebook where folks had shelving like this and I thought I'd give it a try. I need to figure out the mounting of the shelf (today?), hopefully I can find some nice and sturdy hinges so I can have it open/close to get access to the storage behind it.
Once I get this one figured out I'll make two more for the main section of my layout, though those might be a couple weeks away. Overall the shelf came out OK, I'm certainly no carpenter and need more practice.
Speaking of facebook, on it I've joined a couple "groups" which are fairly active in posting pictures of trains.
The "New York Central Railroad Fangroup" and "Pennsylvania Railroad Steam Locomotives" are two of my favorites, here are some pictures I grabbed from those groups and more this week for posting here so you guys could see them.
Last up, earlier this year you might recall that my uncle suddenly passed away and I traveled up to New York a few times to help out. Anyway, the other day my sister sent me this picture of Uncle Jimmy "The Mop", taken probably 20 years ago or so (location?), it's too good not to share with you guys. Uncle Jimmy "roamed" anywhere from Pennsylvania and New Jersey, up to northern New England, and over around "upstate" New York, so it could be anywhere in the northeast corridor really, maybe one of you will recognize the engine.
I hope everyone has a great weekend, have some switcher fun and when you get a chance - please post some switcher stuff here!
All the best...Rich Murnane
p.s. Miss the post on Saturday? NO BIG DEAL, just keep posting pictures of your favorites until the next #SwitcherSaturday
Thanks for sharing the photo of your late uncle Jimmy posing with that tank engine ... which looks like it has had a pretty hard life on the railroad.
Where was the photo of the Western Maryland freight led by two RS3s taken. Was it on B&O trackage? I know the WM had trackage rights in parts of West Virginia over certain parts of the B&O... just wondering if this photo is in West Virginia? 
