Front End Friday

SIRT's photo reminded me that I had this..

Some front end, Alaska style.

It's been a while

                                I guess MTH never heard of the S C L ..........................

                 That's my Florida SPECIAL.

Who says passenger trains have to be a matched set?   

Figure I get my licks in early. TGIFEF! 

Front  end Friday

Rusty

When you see it....

Indulge me with two more to show off my Grandpa’s clockwork tinplate loco, “America”.  Circa 1880 the tinplate guys here on the forum tell me.  All original, including key.

that is really cool Ted !!!   very nice !

TedW posted:

Indulge me with two more to show off my Grandpa’s clockwork tinplate loco, “America”.  Circa 1880 the tinplate guys here on the forum tell me.  All original, including key.

 

Nice. Does it still run?

suzukovich posted:

TedW posted:

Indulge me with two more to show off my Grandpa’s clockwork tinplate loco, “America”.  Circa 1880 the tinplate guys here on the forum tell me.  All original, including key.

 

Nice. Does it still run?

Yup, if ya keep stuff out o the way.  

Erie comin' 'round the bend...

FrankM, Moon Township, USA

LIRR comin' round the bend!

Shark Bay R.R. Baldwin RF16 "BRUCE" & LIRR sand hoppers.

This Front End Friday engineer is O. O. Martin from the Frisco OK City board.  He was one of those people that attained legend status in his own time.  A member of the 729th Railway Operating Battalion, an operator of steam locomotives, passenger trains, symbol freights, and a salty story teller.  On Christmas eve 1981 we deadheaded to Tulsa on a bus and brought light engines out of Cherokee yard southward to Sapulpa to pick up a unit train that had gone dead between Oma switch and the Salpulpa crossovers. (Single track ABS up from Ft Worth and Single track ABS from OKC come together at Sapulpa to form CTC 2 Main Tracks from Sapulpa to Oma).  Nearing the crossovers I was riding the head platform getting ready to step off and talk to the DS on the wayside phone which was about 1 engine length past the home signal.  As I gave the stop signal, O O Martin rolled right past the "All Red" searchlight signal and stopped to let me off precisely at the phone booth.  The instant I was down, "Double O" was smoothly backing out of the interlocking, and I working to get my heart rate back down.

D Townsend photos

Bid adieu to this one today.  Shipped my last FARR set, the first made, to a lucky buyer in Ohio.  Notice the replacement boiler front with feedwater tank to render 8900 a Santa Fe-type Hudson.  Never was able to determine if this was the work of a previous owner (looks too original) or a factory deviation.

Moonson posted:

Erie comin' 'round the bend...

FrankM, Moon Township, USA

great photos, love that small town, down by the tracks feel that you've created!

Moonson posted:

Erie comin' 'round the bend...

FrankM, Moon Township, USA

FrankM, I looked lovingly at your photo of the “Erie comin round the bend”.  What drew me in was your model of the “big Healey” and behind it the E type Jaguar. I owned a ‘67 Austin-Healey 3000 BJ8 .  A wonderful car to drive.  As an aside, the owner of that Jag needs to fix his license plate.   

My Friday afternoon ride.

TedW posted:

Moonson posted:

Erie comin' 'round...

FrankM, I looked lovingly at your photo of the “Erie comin round the bend”.  What drew me in was your model of the “big Healey” and behind it the E type Jaguar. I owned a ‘67 Austin-Healey 3000 BJ8 .  A wonderful car to drive.  As an aside, the owner of that Jag needs to fix his license plate.   

Wow, TedW, you certainly have an eye-for-details! Thank you. I went to the trainroom and made the appropriate adjustment.

FrankM

                                         Retired SIRT 9027 off island, end of life cycle.

The front end that might have been but never was:

Rusty

front end Friday

Rusty Traque posted:

The front end that might have been but never was:

Rusty

I would like to know more about this!

Strasburg 2017

Tom