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I missed the Switch photo contest deadline by less than 30 minutes because I didn’t realise Korean time is ahead of ours oTL I thought I had enough time to finish up a faceup commission but I was wrong :c
But at least I got some portraits of it! Mio is a Switch Sohwa and belongs to WinterDeer/Korone <3
Clubbin
The radio afterparty
7 mei 2010
Switch, Hilversum
Eric van Kleef
Hardwell
Norman Soares
PartyXXL.nl
Clubbin
The radio afterparty
7 mei 2010
Switch, Hilversum
Eric van Kleef
Hardwell
Norman Soares
PartyXXL.nl
From our Cataracts trip, we went over to the Forks of the Credit and to get there you've got to take this tight corkscrew turn.
Nikon D40 - Sigma 10-20@18mm f/8 - 1/500s - ISO 200 - -1EV - Tripod
Switch closed last year, Jack's a new bar, hosted a reunion party of the old staff, clients and owner
Clubbin
The radio afterparty
7 mei 2010
Switch, Hilversum
Eric van Kleef
Hardwell
Norman Soares
PartyXXL.nl
The PV&T never had very many small switchers (14 if you include the ex-BCC class Hs), and kept very good care of them, but MOST of them were rolling antiques, some approaching 100 years in service. So the Portland shops, in preparation for the inevitable day when to keep one running it would have to be completely rebuilt from scratch, started designing a new universal switcher to take their place.
What they ended up doing was to take the class J roadswitcher and put it through the wash on HOT to shrink it down a bit. They kept the coupled trucks, but switched to the lower profile plate truck introduced in the switchers the Portland Shops built for the PdM, then shrunk the hoods for better visibility.
The class O's are 80 tons, give or take a few pounds, and can produce 1400HP with enough spare power to also power a slug.
The first one arrived after the P&W merger, so was numbered in the first empty slot after the P&W's initial block of numbers -- a nice round 900.
These engines took 3 of the more worn class A's out of service, leaving only 201 & 204 running, plus the 2 240s & the last remaining PVRT Baldwin-Westinghouse steeplecab.
(profiles used to make this drawing were all drawn by Joshua Moldover @ The Railroad Paint Shop and yours truly at my dining room table.)
All three of my Switch boys in one place! Poor Courtney (Seolrok) looks short because the other two are wearing boots, and he's just in sneakers. Also, Ramses (Soseo) is on a stand which gives him a teeny bit more height over the others. Jamie (Waseon) is just chilling in the middle, all smug like, "I don't have to steal a body, bitches."
Actually, I'm kind of thinking of either getting Jamie repainted, or trading his head for a blank one or one with a different faceup. The faceup he came with is nice and all, but not really what I want? But I also don't want to wipe it and replace it with one of my mediocre ones! I'd feel guilty. :B Maybe I can just get used to it, but I'm still considering swapping it out. :U
Photographed facing east from the top of the South Cicero Avenue overpass bridge. The Belt Railway of Chicago EMD roadswitcher, has just pulled it's cut of cars in to the Chicago side of Clearing Yard east of South Cicero Avenue.
The Select Button remains a button, made in the style of the Warlock knobs. It is the one with the white stripe. The Start Switch is below that, and below the switch are two cosmetic "dummy" knobs. All three knobs have the ability to turn.
Clubbin
The radio afterparty
7 mei 2010
Switch, Hilversum
Eric van Kleef
Hardwell
Norman Soares
PartyXXL.nl
Clubbin
The radio afterparty
7 mei 2010
Switch, Hilversum
Eric van Kleef
Hardwell
Norman Soares
PartyXXL.nl
Detail pics of Switch Dojin. Also my first attempt with airbrush blushing. Obviously I need lots of work, but I never would have gotten the soft gray/silver eyebrows wanted by the client without it!! :D