Front End Friday

@Don McErlean posted:

WP Thanks that's really helpful.  Appreciate your response.

Best Wishes

Don

You are very welcome!

MTH Dash 8   with fixed pilot, scale couplers, and lightly weathered.

@Don McErlean posted:

  Steve - your post peaked my curiosity. First you don't normally post anything in HO and then you stated you were returning the set.  Candidly the video looked good, I just wondered what didn't you like about the set?

Thanks everyone, really enjoyed your pictures.

Don

Don, the magnetic track these come with is a brilliant idea with an absolutely horrible execution. Rail alignment is awful so many derailments. Also it has no tolerance for a even very slight surface variation. This part i knew ahead of time. My big issue is the sound. If you listen on those occasions I can get it to go a few laps, you will note it is in idle mode most of the time no matter the speed. There will be an occasional flurry of chuffing, bust mostly idling. I can replace the track with something else, but I want the loco to work and sound correctly. I am returning it, a replacement set is on the way.

Steve

Steve. Thanks for the info.  Good to know as I was considering a similar set for our tree. Obviously am reconsidering this choice.

Don

Happy FEF

Steve

Rusty

Staten Island Rapid Transit  29 leads a 'roustabout' (SIRT local freight) back to Edgewater Yard.  The Class D 0-6-0 camelback was built from a heavily modified Locomotive Workshop kit in 1990.  The first three cars behind it are:

A Walthers two bay hopper in Reading livery, orignally built from a kit in 1954.

A scratch built  B&O Class N-43  wagontop covered hopper done in 1985.

And a C&O 40' ARA box car built in 2000 from Scale Model Railways cast aluminum parts made in 1937.

A fellow o scale modeler sent me five castings (a roof, two sides and a pair of ends)  to see what I could do with them. A scratch-built floor and detaild underframe did the job.

A wild mix of equipment origins and ages, running great together, which has always been the goal for NMRA standards in model raliroading.

S. Islander

Happy FEF

Thank Gosh its Friday.  Better yet, its FEF!  Here is the front end of an R-17 train running on the #5 line pulling into a station -

Happy FEF!

My new Williams Rutland 70 ton diesel rounding the bend on the high line.

Happy Front end Friday! Postwar Lionel 2065 and MTH Steamer pulling Blue Comet Passengers.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS - HAPPY FEF!

Hello everyone...its F.E.F again and now just a week before Christmas.  Best wishes for a wonderful Holiday to all.

What I have for today is the Marx M10000 in one of its later color schemes.  In this case, green and cream, from 1936-37.

Here is the F.E.F view, terribly out of scale headlight but I like the two crew members you can see through the windshield.

Here is a front quarter view, showing a bit more of the power car which also contained an RPO

Here is a view showing the tail car.  The full train, too long for my display shelf, has two other coaches and makes quite a "snake" running around corners.

Best wishes for a great weekend and a super Holiday season

Don

Ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!!

Beautiful pictures everyone, from oldies to the newbies, all making this thread fun to review. As Don McErlean says, and I second the thought, Happy Holidays to all and may your Christmas Season be Merry and bright. Happy Railroading Everyone.

Happy Holidays Members! Here's a very dusty LionMaster Big Boy with the duty of pulling the Polar Express while the Berkshire is in the shop! I'm thinking of putting a Polar Express banner on the tender. ;-) But first a little "low pressure" compressed air with ionizer to blow the dust off.

Happy FEF & Christmas eve!

Rusty

Happy FEF! and Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas all!

Merry Christmas everyone for this holiday prewar FEF.

Well Rich Wiemann - I'm with you today...continuing the pre-war F.E.F inputs.  But first, let me wish everyone the Happiest of Holidays / Merriest of Christmas's on this Holiday Eve !!  Today I have an old warrior, from 1926-27, 95 years old this Holiday season and still capable of pulling his trains around my layout.  I hope that at 95 I am still even close to being that functional - Lionel did make some high quality products for sure.

Here he is in his Holiday "green" actually Lionel called it "olive".  Hard to tell in this picture, but he is not all that big - one of the smaller line of engines for those days just a little longer than the 248 box cab.  Similar in size to Rich's 259 (w/o tender) and 253.

Here is the F.E.F. shot, although what end is the front could  be very debatable

Here is the other end (rear?) with the pantograph vice the direction switch (manual reverse).

Again, best wishes everyone for a very merry Holiday tomorrow

Don

A Merry Christmas front end for this fine Friday December 24, 2021!  

Seemed the right time to post this one again, with a snow storm raging this time at the "Charles Street Yard" and out my window...Merry Christmas to all!

Merry Christmas

@trumpettrain posted:

A Merry Christmas front end for this fine Friday December 24, 2021!  

Patrick...great scene with the dusting of snow...hopefully the crew will be off-duty pretty soon to begin their holiday...Merry Christmas and thank you for your contributions here this year...

If this headlight was red, it would rival Rudolf's nose for sure!

Lionel No.42 NYC twin motored standard gauge locomotive from 1921

@c.sam posted:

If this headlight was red, it would rival Rudolf's nose for sure!

Lionel No.12 NYC twin motored standard gauge locomotive from 1921

C.Sam you’re absolutely correct…I will have to remember that for next year….heck I’m going upstairs now to make some changes before the grandkids arrive.

A Ives Yankee Clipper emerges from the south tunnel.

Steve

Great photos everyone, and Paul I love the snow effect! Now if I can find someone else to figure out the shoveling effect for me I would have it made! LOL

Wow, here we are, on Christmas Eve, 2021, and hopefully Santa will stop by our homes in the wee hours of the Night and leave some sort of train item for us to remember this unimaginable year, and take care of all of the folks in harms way, Tornados, Floods, Fires, auto incidents, friends passing away, those finding Cures, simply Life. Front End Friday is a wonderful thread and all of the pictures above represent how we share the Best Hobby in the World, model railroading. Merry Christmas Everyone and may you stay healthy, stay safe, and have a wonderful 2022. Don McErlean, you need a light bulb for that beautiful olive green diesel, Santa might leave you one…. Happy Railroading Everyone

@leapinlarry posted:

Wow, here we are, on Christmas Eve, 2021, and hopefully Santa will stop by our homes in the wee hours of the Night and leave some sort of train item for us to remember this unimaginable year, and take care of all of the folks in harms way, Tornados, Floods, Fires, auto incidents, friends passing away, those finding Cures, simply Life. Front End Friday is a wonderful thread and all of the pictures above represent how we share the Best Hobby in the World, model railroading. Merry Christmas Everyone and may you stay healthy, stay safe, and have a wonderful 2022. Don McErlean, you need a light bulb for that beautiful olive green diesel, Santa might leave you one…. Happy Railroading Everyone

Larry, what great photos! I always love to see pictures of your layout! Oh by the way you forgot SNOW! LOL

If Santa does leave me some train items, I hope it's some 072-curve track so I can finish my upper loop! LOL

Everyone please be safe and have a wonderful Christmas and Happy New Year!

HAPPY  CHRISTMAS  EVE ........ and .......a HAPPY  FEF.

...........may all of you have a PEACEFUL CHRISTMAS.

( try to keep the volume down on those trains )

Happy FEF - Christmas Edition - Everyone!

FEF with WP 485 GS-64, SP Daylight 4415 GS-2, and SF WarBonnet F3 AA #18 ready to roll out on Christmas Eve and pickup their consists. :-)

Happy Holidays and wishing you all good health!

Happy Front End Friday and Christmas eve.

Here is the front end of my 3rd Rail Brill 660.  These GEG415 Doodlebugs initially has gas engines, but due to a late 30s fire causing a lot of deaths, the Penny switched over to diesel and renamed them OEG415.  My 3rd Rail model is neat in that the engine sound is diesel and fits into my late 40s themed layout.