Front End Friday

Don, those toys look like fun.

Bob, those BEEPS look good coming or going!

RSJB18 , Artie-DL&W thank you both for your comments.  Yes I believe those young people in Europe or UK had great fun with those toys in the 1950's.  Especially since I know that at the time, resources were tight and the war recovery was still in progress so inexpensive fun toys would have been popular. Best wishes for a great weekend

Don

Lionel offered two versions of the SD70ACE Union Pacific WP Legacy Locomotives. #1903 is a fictitious number but acknowledges the year the WP company was formed. Lionel also offered the #1983 that acknowledges the year UP acquired WP, and this version actually exists in the UP roster.

Happy front end Friday All... Spent some time this afternoon straightening out part of my layout so I can FINALLY get back to doing some long delayed scenicing on one side of the layout. While I was moving some engines into storage in the yard, I grabbed a couple of front end photos...

USA PA's in large scale.  Offered on the FS board...

My version of the "Race of the Century."

Happy 100 Pages to the FEF crew!

A grey, chilly fall night at the "Charles Street Yard..."

C&O Greenbrier 4-8-4 #614

A shot from the RSJ&B shops. Working on my BEEP upgrade. First set of LED's done.

End of the front kind for this fine Friday!

Lionel Postwar K4 Being passed by P.R.R. Mallet

The Ophir and Oblivion Management decided to show off some of the new power for the new electrified extension between Ophir and the up and coming city of Erehwon.  The new KB unit is equipped with backup in the form of clockwork power so it can keep running even if there is an electrical failure on the system.

Our 3 rail Scale Premiere Dash 40WC in action.  Offered on the FS post

Hi everyone, happy Friday.  My "front end" comes today from a purchase I made while on vacation on a Rhine river cruise.  Purchased at a toy shop in Colmar, France this is a 1/43 scale model of a modern European tram.  It is all set for track running, with detailed trucks and flanged wheels but alas no power (hand of God power).  It has a full interior and opening doors and hidden hatches in the roof where you can add passengers if you wish.  I am posting the "front end" here but there are some additional pictures if you wish to see more posted on " Buy Anything Cool Today" under the Traditional Toy Trains thread of Nov 12.

Here is the front end (although as RSJB18 said in one post) it could be the tail end as well !!  One operator sits behind that huge glass windscreen and there is no other crew aboard.

A slightly longer view of the front end, showing the highly streamlined shape.  Entry for passengers is via two sets of double doors near the center of the unit.

Hope everyone has a great weekend

Don

Last Saturday, Dave ran his electronically upgraded LIONEL 785 NYC Hudson:

Les ran his NYC S-2 (a rivet counter's delight, literally!):

And this is the GM&O F-3 (former LIONEL PW 2343) pulling "The Abraham Lincoln":

Big Boy at Kansas City Union Station

Happy FEF, Not much out there in STD Gauge world for Hudson’s. Here’s my Frank Read Royal Hudson and my Waterman Hudson.

Steve

Happy FEF

Early morning equipment check at the "Charles Street Yard"...

                                 F.E.F.....

Happy FEF everyone!

#9606 coming around the bend

Happy FEF!

Happy Friday! Caught this in Thurmond WV last week. I lucked out catching this long coal drag in such a picturesque setting. Absolutely beautiful country! Made it hard for me to go back home to old flat Florida.

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Have a Great Friday!

Shake a Veterans Hand and say Thank You! God Speed All!

End of the front kind for this fine Friday!   Pennsy PA 1 and a trolley exit their respective tunnels, as a Pennsy A5 takes the bridge,  on a crisp  fall afternoon.

An Oldie, but Goodie; 611 during a photo run-by near Toccoa GA November 1993:

A member's grandson, Jonah, operating Thomas the Tank Engine with LionChief handheld last Saturday:

Dave's Lionmaster Big Boy #X4040 from last Saturday:

Rick's Legacy Big Boy 4014 operated autonomously by his 15 year old grandson, Jake, last Saturday:

Be safe.

Happy FEF Day. Here's a day time shot of my LionMaster Big Boy.

Well here it is again, F.E.F. and I am late to the party, but here it goes anyway.  Today I have some pre-war American Flyer electric engines.  Two this time, the 0 gauge 1211, an uncatalogued engine from the 1920's and his big brother the 4644 New Haven wide gauge box cab from1928-33.  Shown together just for a size comparison.

Here is my first front end, the American Flyer 1211 from the 1920's.  Uncatalogued but not too plain with the strap headlight and fancy rails.

Here he is with is train ready to depart the terminal.  The cars are un-numbered lithograph 4 wheel cars from about 1928-29

However , just to show the difference between 0 gauge and wide gauge ("standard" gauge in Lionel parlance) here is the 1211 with his "big brother" the American Flyer #4644 New Haven box cab.

Here again to show the comparison of size.  Seen like this, the visual impact of wide gauge is easy to see but also in these budget tight times as the depression was on the horizon it is easy to see that the smaller trains could command a price advantage.

Happy Friday everyone , hope you have a great weekend

Don

Sunset F3.  Such a pretty face.

@Pingman posted:

Dave's Lionmaster Big Boy #X4040 from last Saturday:

Be safe.

Interesting... Big Boys only went up to 4024...

Rusty

Happy FEF all... here is one to warm the cockles of the hearts of all current and former Lawn-guy-linders!!!

Paul, that's quite handsom.   I don't recall that paint scheme at all from my 30 years on the sand bar so that must be pre '85.  And I don't recall seeing it offered by any MFR, but I've been out of the new train market for quite some time.

Happy Front End Friday! This is the last weekend for this layout. Next week it will be torn apart and I'll start the Christmas layout.

@Rusty Traque posted:

Interesting... Big Boys only went up to 4024...

Rusty

Rusty, you took the words right out of my typing fingers! ;-) I am unaware of any LionMaster Big Boys offering that number. Somebody modified it maybe?! It does have unique going for it though!

Scott

@coach joe posted:

Paul, that's quite handsom.   I don't recall that paint scheme at all from my 30 years on the sand bar so that must be pre '85.  And I don't recall seeing it offered by any MFR, but I've been out of the new train market for quite some time.

Thanks, Joe. That is a Lionel offering from around 2019. It is an FA cab car. Here is the other end - a C-420. I don’t remember what they called it, but my little consist (including 2 21” passenger cars), is supposed to represent the short trains taking people out to the east end.

@Rusty Traque posted:

Interesting... Big Boys only went up to 4024...

Rusty

Ahh ha, it's a Lionel LionMaster Big Boy made for LOTS 40th anniversary.

https://ogrforum.com/...nion-pacific-big-boy

Scott