Front End Friday

Filled the HiRail coupler pilot gap on my MTH S Scale F7's.

Rusty

Looks like it’s from the factory! Nice work.

Here is my FEF for today. I also posted a video of "The Texas Special" in another post. Please make sure to check that out. Thanks.

Donald

Good morning, FEFers.  Really nice photos of layouts today.

Big engine line up.

Lionel J1a, Lionel T1, 3rd Rail Q1, MTH Q2.

Here are my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!

Morning FEFers, PW Lionel racing around the bend. HAGD All!

Happy Front End Friday! In this brief video a pair of O scale Penn Central geeps tackle a tank car train. Enjoy!

@Rusty Traque posted:

Filled the HiRail coupler pilot gap on my MTH S Scale F7's.

Rusty

Very nice Rusty

Guys some Beautiful FEF already this morning keep them coming

Hello everyone...its Friday again and a great start to the weekend here in Texas where the weather is sunny and warm - expected to hit near 70 deg today.  My contribution today is..." A Pair of 48's"  One of Lionels most popular engines of the prewar period the little 248. This came in dark green, orange, red, olive green and terra cotta - the last two colors were uncatalogued.  So here are two examples...an Orange / Black from 1927 and Red/Black from 1929.

First the F.E.F. view :  Both engines have one headlight and one pantograph and a brass whistle.

Here is a side view to show you a little more of the body of the engines.  Note...the Orange one has a "star" past...in the late 1980's when we lived in Dayton, the local high rail club sponsored a big layout at the Ohio State Fair (a big deal in Ohio).  If you participated in helping to run the layout, you could bring one of your trains to run.  On a whim, I brought the little orange guy and his 3 matching passenger cars and sent him rushing around the vast (to him) layout.  It was amazing, despite all the beautiful scale and large locomotives that attracted the attention of most of the adults...the "little folks" could not get enough of the little orange train pulled by the humble 248 and they laughed and clapped every time he went past.  It was wonderful to watch.

Happy Friday everyone, have a great weekend!

Don

A-B-A Erie Lackawanna F3’s pulling the Phoebe Snow round a bend near a hobo camp enroute to Scranton.

Good morning, all. I'll drop in a few FEFs here. Happy weekend!

Beautiful pictures fellows and have a great weekend. Happy Railroading Everyone

My Alaska F3

Today's installment.

A classic Delaware, Lackawanna, & Western F3a:

Hello FEFers, here's a locomotive I don't photo much, it's kind of a strange Lionel Legacy engine. It's from the 2010 Vol 2 catalog, and for a Legacy its missing a lot of detail. For instance no side sun visors, and detail is molded in instead of separately applied detail like my other Legacy locomotives from this time period. With that said, it's one of the earlier models where the trucks twist 90 degrees to remove them. That's a nice feature making it really easy to replace rubber tires, that I just performed the other day. It's a nice model and runs great.

Happy Friday!

Bob, that is a beautiful F3, although I’m a little biased toward the Lackawanna. I enjoyed many trips on the Phoebe Snow until it was discontinued. Who made that model?

@Artie-DL&W posted:

Bob, that is a beautiful F3, although I’m a little biased toward the Lackawanna. I enjoyed many trips on the Phoebe Snow until it was discontinued. Who made that model?

That is an Atlas 2 rail model.

Thanks, it’s a beautiful model.

SIRT 489 works the west end of Edgewater Yard on the Baltimore & New York Ry. It's a Custom Brass imported model from a few decades back, with some modifications to better match its prototype.  The Custom Brass Alco S models were built with All Nation drives and motors.

The 250-ton flat is a Max Gray from 1954, with a GE stator load made from PVC pipe and electrical conduit pieces. It was painted to match a GE stator at the New York State Electric & Gas Jennings power plant.  At the time when I was living near there, this former coal burning plant was using ground up, worn-out tires for fuel. It was later converted again, to burn natural gas.   

S. Islander

@CoastsideKevin posted:

Good morning, all. I'll drop in a few FEFs here. Happy weekend!

Hi Kevin, nice classic FE and F3's, maybe F7's, plus a later model Lionel SD80Mac. And a F3 Western Pacific in the background, I'm liking that. :-) Do you run your layout in conventional, or do you have a mix of conventional and TMCC/Legacy with different blocks? Nice photos, thanks!

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Hi Kevin, nice classic FE and F3's, maybe F7's, plus a later model Lionel SD80Mac. And a F3 Western Pacific in the background, I'm liking that. :-) Do you run your layout in conventional, or do you have a mix of conventional and TMCC/Legacy with different blocks? Nice photos, thanks!

Thanks! First photo is PW 2355 (actually a repainted and rebadged 2333), Erie LC+ FT, and PW 2353

Second is the Menards beta F unit, version 3.0 with a PW B unit

Third is LC+2.0 Lionmaster SD80MAC

Yes, I have a conventional layout with blocked sidings. I also run a number of Lionchief Plus locomotives that don't require Legacy or TMCC, in order to keep things relatively simple and affordable. Plus, with my 022 switches, the selection would be pretty limited.

I like being able to run a conventional engine on one district at the same time I'm running a modern, command engine on the other district. It has worked for me so far. Here is what that looks like.

Front end of a lot of Union Pacific steel - the 2-8-8-0 'Bull Moose'

Front End Friday…have a great one!!! 🚂😉😺

Have a great weekend everyone- TGIF!

Happy FEF.

Well hello F.E.F folks .... its not quite Friday yet, 1833 hrs Thurs to be exact, but my morning is spoken for and I won't get a chance to post till late if not at all...SO I am taking initiative and posting early.  Today I have some Lionel "Geep's" for you, one Post War and one MPC.  So here you go:

First the Burlington GP-7 #2328 by Lionel catalogued 1955-56.

Next a late comer.  The "Jeremiah O'Brien" GP-9  #1776.  Actually Lionel # 8665 from 1976.

Well Happy F.E.F everyone (a little early) and hope you have a great weekend.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well hello F.E.F folks .... its not quite Friday yet, 1833 hrs Thurs to be exact, but my morning is spoken for and I won't get a chance to post till late if not at all...SO I am taking initiative and posting early.  Today I have some Lionel "Geep's" for you, one Post War and one MPC.  So here you go:

First the Burlington GP-7 #2328 by Lionel catalogued 1955-56.

Next a late comer.  The "Jeremiah O'Brien" GP-9  #1776.  Actually Lionel # 8665 from 1976.

Well Happy F.E.F everyone (a little early) and hope you have a great weekend.

Best Wishes

Don

I’m celebrating Friday too. Maybe early. Happy almost TGIF everyone!

Hello FEFers.  I hope everyone is doing well on this almost Friday. 

Here is my contribution.

How do I know this is the front end?  Well, we all know on freight cars the end with the brake wheel is the 'B', or rear, end.  The other end is the 'A' or front end.  But what about a caboose with brake wheels on both ends?

On freight cars the pointed end of the brake cylinder points to the 'B' end.  To standardize terminology, for a caboose the pointed end will point to the 'B' end of the caboose.  That makes the other end the 'A', or front, end.

So that makes this end the front end.

Have a great weekend.

(Yes, I know real railroaders only use A and B, but lets have a little fun.)

The eastbound Spirit of St. Louis

George

3 front ends for this fine almost Friday!

Front End Friday…have a great one. 🚂😉😺

Happy FEF!

We have an audio FEF this week. Courtesy of GRJ, he gave me a tip for the horn control with a Cab 1L on my BEEP w/ ERR.

Happy Friday!

Bob

Luzerne & Susquehanna #50, servicing the Hanover Industrial Estates. Ex-Conrail/Penn Central 9089, nee-PRR 9363, Owned by Luzerne county, and now leased by RJ Corman.

FEF! A trio of Chessie "geeps" handle a train of covered hoppers. 🙂

Happy FEF

Postwar 675 with legends of Lionel Madison cars.

Fendermain

Wow, can’t believe it’s already FEF. What a quick week.  Here is a pod of miscellaneous front ends sighted on my layout this morning -

TGIF All! How did you New Yorkers enjoy the rain? Here is a PW K-4 Racing a Williams Shark Nose. God Speed All!

Happy FEF.