Front End Friday

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

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

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

Scott

OK... A commemorative number makes sense.

Rusty

Northern Pacific 44 Tonner, Post War Lionel

B&O Diesel Power

PRR B-6 Switcher

@Apples55 posted:

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.

Paul, I'm on Long Island for Thanksgiving with the kids.  I was in Trainland Yesterday and saw the FAs up on the wall.  Like I said, I've been out of the new train market for a while and don't even get catalogs any more so I hadn't seen those FAs before. I believe you're talking about the Greenport Scoot.

@coach joe posted:

Paul, I'm on Long Island for Thanksgiving with the kids.  I was in Trainland Yesterday and saw the FAs up on the wall.  Like I said, I've been out of the new train market for a while and don't even get catalogs any more so I hadn't seen those FAs before. I believe you're talking about the Greenport Scoot.

Ding... Ding... Ding... Give that man a cigar It was definitely the Scoot I was thinking of. Read about it somewhere and thought I’d make a short version for my layout. Have a great Thanksgiving, Joe.

P.S. I noticed you didn’t say if you BOUGHT anything in Trainland

Kenny and the boys kept $300 of my money.  A WbB 44 tonner, a Wings of Angels boxcar and some other peripheral items.  I'll post on the What have you bought lately forum when I get home later next week.

FEF, mixing things up from the 9 layouts at this years MUZEO Express.

Steve

@Apples55- K-line made a nice Scoot set too. MP-15 powered unit, 3 coaches, and a dummy PA on the other. The LIRR used whatever they had available at the time so the C-liner works too.
@coach joe- I have one of the new WbB 44's in Pennsy. They are very nice locos. Just be careful handling it, the hand rails are very fragile.

Happy FEF!

The above-mentioned K-line set

Bob, I've had one of the PRR 44 tonners since they first came out.  And yes I broke one of the handrails putting it back in the box after using it.  I picked up the CN one because it was $129.  Both are destined for rebranding to another road.

PA at rest...

Happy FEF

Fendermain

Well good morning F.E.F. fans, Great pictures all especially since most of us are recovering from too much Turkey! 

My offering today is very humble, it is one of the early Lionel MPC offerings from 1973-74 a simple plastic steam engine that came with a A.T.S.F. slope back tender.  However my operating pictures of this guy will have a (Marx) NYC tender as his original SFe tender is just beyond repair.

Here he is with his original Lionel Tender.  By the way, at 48 years old, this guy still works fine and can pull small trains around my mostly flat layout.

Here he is with his "substitute" Marx tender.  By the way, note the strong similarity in the plastic casting between the Lionel slope back tender of the 1970's and the Marx slope back tender of about the same vintage.  Could they have been trading parts?

Here he is pulling my "air defense" train, complete with missile launching car and a flat full of spare missiles.

Well I hope everyone enjoyed Thanksgiving, if you are driving home please be careful today is one of the most heavy traffic days of the year.  Best wishes ... and ON TO CHRISTMAS

Don

End of the front kind for this fine Friday!

FEF Santa Fe F3's.

Happy Railroading! I better get to work on the expansions and get a little scenery going.

The Lionel E7 is a good looking diesel, but the pilot is wrong.  Looks like it came off their E6.

Checked Lionel's parts and no replacement I could find.  Thought about the E8, but nothing there either.  So I bought the one for their F3, but the hole pattern is wrong.  Still looking at how to make it work.

Happy Friday everyone! I Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful holiday weekend!

Happy Late Front end Friday! Here is an oldie, but a goodie -

Hope everybody had a Happy Thanksgiving! My wife's getting ready to heat up some leftovers - one of the best parts of Thanksgiving.

Postwar, MPC, and modern LionChief® Plus are all happily at work for the long weekend.

Here’s a triple threat of some of my Postwar favorites poised on Super O track.

" FOOD COMA "  ( coined on the forum by Bob / RSJB18 )  has slowed me down from getting on the past FEF.     So here goes ......MTH RK dash 8 with all lights updated to LEDs.   6 of them facing forward.

Rich - I love the Postwar - and I covet that beautiful Super "0" track!

Here's a couple of my favorites!

CR #4800 by Williams. #4800 was the only CR GG1 to get blue paint.

Happy FEF!

Happy Friday everyone enjoy your weekend.

Rusty

Happy Front end Friday!  Here is the front end of my MTA work train. Its an NW-2 switcher -

Have a Great Friday! Lionel 6-8754 Pennsy was a New Haven Thank a Vet!

Can't believe it is FEF already!

Well good morning F.E.F fans, I can see we have a great start today.  Here is the Lionel 256 from 1924 - 1930.  This is about the largest locomotive in 0 gauge I have, larger than my Std Gauge #8.  Twin motored and the only twin motored 0 gauge loco Lionel made until the F-3's in 1948.

Here he is with his train of 710 Pullman's and 712 observation.  NYC cars from 1924-1934

Happy Friday everyone...hope you have a great weekend.

Don

The "Chief" pulls in for the early evening travelers...

@Don McErlean posted:

Well good morning F.E.F fans, I can see we have a great start today.  Here is the Lionel 256 from 1924 - 1930.  This is about the largest locomotive in 0 gauge I have, larger than my Std Gauge #8.  Twin motored and the only twin motored 0 gauge loco Lionel made until the F-3's in 1948.

Here he is with his train of 710 Pullman's and 712 observation.  NYC cars from 1924-1934

Happy Friday everyone...hope you have a great weekend.

Don

Awesome, Don!

Here is my red MTH Repro to go with your orange -

Here’s a K-Line GG1 rounding a curve, and not disturbing a fellow heading for the hobo camp.

Here are a few:

FEF
This gray LCT 392 looks fabulous pulling a Flyer Presidential outfit.

Steve

Here's my contribution for FEF. Lionel Legacy SD70Ace.

@Don McErlean posted:

Well good morning F.E.F fans, I can see we have a great start today.  Here is the Lionel 256 from 1924 - 1930.  This is about the largest locomotive in 0 gauge I have, larger than my Std Gauge #8.  Twin motored and the only twin motored 0 gauge loco Lionel made until the F-3's in 1948.

Here he is with his train of 710 Pullman's and 712 observation.  NYC cars from 1924-1934

Happy Friday everyone...hope you have a great weekend.

Don

You always come up with the most interesting stuff Don. To a young (53yrs old) whippersnapper you are a Asset to the forum

Transition era.