Front End Friday

Good FeF and  weekend to you all!!!

Happy FEF!

Another WbB 70 Tonner

Have a great weekend 🚂. Be Specific, Ship Union Pacific!

Brazil

Happy Friday everyone. Here’s 2 or maybe three if you count that weird face paint on that hopper I caught these guys in St. Louis the other day. Enjoy your weekend.

Have a great FEF…🚂😉😺

Is that Rich Melvin peeking out the drivers side window?

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

@trumpettrain posted:

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

Patrick, real life is messy, and you capture that in your layout and photos very artistically. Plus, you can see the image and imagine the sounds in your scenes. Thanks again for your "ends of the front"! ;-)

Here's my addition to FeF.  Got some track side mechanics looking at, or rather discussing whatever, the SP SW8 while the SP Daylight 4415 sits idle.

Have a great FEF all, Alaska Geep around the bend

Happy FEF to my fine fellow forum friends.  A little lightning  stripe activity for today.

Fendermain

We seem to be a little light on Marx at the moment...here's something to try to rectify that situation....front to back - Seaboard, KCS prototype, KCS production, and Monon.

While at the Baltimore's B&O Railroad Museum many years ago I took a picture of Reading 2101 in it American Freedom Train colors.

I think MTH's version of AFT 1 might be a little too blue, but the paint on it now is definitely faded.

My AFT 1 has been in a plexiglass case over the fireplace for nearly 2 decades.  If I ever run it again, I am sure it will need a new battery.

@SLQ32 posted:

Hmmm, I had to look this one up! That is a Wabtec ES44ACi in Brazil, Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos (CPTM) railroad). I guess we all have to get used to calling GE locomotives by their new name, "Wabtec"!

@SLQ32 posted:

That looks like armor plating on the engineer’s side windows.

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Patrick, real life is messy, and you capture that in your layout and photos very artistically. Plus, you can see the image and imagine the sounds in your scenes. Thanks again for your "ends of the front"! ;-)

Why thank you so much Scott for your observations and for the wonderful compliment!

Wow what great pictures folks...a 1:1 locomotive from Brazil!  You don't get much more exotic than that, at least here in Texas!! CAPPilot - good to see AFT 1 again..I did visit it on its original tour.  Robert S. Butler - thanks for the Marx FM's.  Fendermain - who can resist a "Lightening Stripe" F-3 .  Trumptrain, JSB18,Shasta, Siska, WP 2217,JDtrain - great layout photos. Coach Joe, UKEKAT - I took my boys on the "Chessie Steam Special" pulled by 765 many years ago out of Cincinatti...my oldest is now 50!! So its great to see that locomotive in such fabulous shape. If I missed anyone Im sorry...all the photos's were GREAT!

Today, Im a little late posting its now mid afternoon here in central Texas but SPRING is here at last, temperature is 77 deg!  So I thought I would post a few more pictures of my new "favorite" that I purchased at a Dallas Train Show (first one in 2 years) last Feb.  The Lionel # 8351 Santa Fe Alco in the freight colors.  An early MPC offering from 1973-75 but she runs really smooth and pulls really well.

Here is a short video using the "slo mo" feature of my phone cam to show you more detail on the engine.

Best wishes, enjoy your weekend

Don

The winds are blowing hard this Friday (25 Mar 2022) but I was able to steady the camera for this RC, P & E westbound train that was parked east of Huron, SD presumably waiting for a fresh crew to take it into the yard.  They were committing the ultimate model rr sin of - blocking the main , lol !

HAPPY  FEF  EVERYONE .

Another expensive Lenten Friday fish dinner just down the hill from Weedville Pa home of the Valley Farm Market . ............good for a twofer.

Imperial RK  Challengers , UP and  CRR .

Had to pass on the Cab Forwards and the Big Boys. Not enough clearance on the layout rail lines.  😩

An FEF from my 1950s ( from Dad )       

I had to install a reverse mechanism , redo wiring , some motor work and a few small fixes.

HAVE  A GREAT  WEEKEND  EVERYONE.

@shasta posted:

Shasta, my favorite locomotives, the GS series! 4460, the last GS locomotive to ride the rails before retirement in 1958. Fortunately it still exists on static display at the Museum of Transportation, St. Louis, Missouri. I have one of it's cousins, Western Pacific 485 GS-64, built on a piggy back order at the same time as the last SP order for GS-6 series. Thanks for sharing it!

Happy FEF.

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy FEF.

Nice scene.     Great looking ballast too.

Happy FEF.

Steve

@coach joe posted:

Is that Rich Melvin peeking out the drivers side window?

No…but Rich was there…🚂😉😺

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Nice scene.     Great looking ballast too.

Dallas,

Thank you Sir. The ballast is a sandblasting sand.

Johan

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Dallas,

Thank you Sir. The ballast is a sandblasting sand.

Johan

When comparing O gauge locomotives and rolling stock size with rail ballast , I've often thought sand would be really good .    This scene of yours proves it works IMHO Johan.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

When comparing O gauge locomotives and rolling stock size with rail ballast , I've often thought sand would be really good .    This scene of yours proves it works IMHO Johan.

Dallas,

It also works well in this era by modeling and in the branch line. 🤝

Johan

Happy Front End Friday on the SP Railroad!

Southern Pacific SW 1.

Dallas if you keep going for fish dinners Valley Farm Market is going to run out of Challengers!

@coach joe posted:

Dallas if you keep going for fish dinners Valley Farm Market is going to run out of Challengers!

Joe , that's exactly what Charlie really said when we were getting ready to check out with the last two we bought.         We did go easy on the Challenger situation when we bought the DM & IR Allegheny though

Forgive me, I forgot the first one was an Allegheny.

Rusty

@Rusty Traque posted:

Rusty

Rusty where is this at?

Here are images of 501 at home at the NCTM.

Ron

@PRRronbh posted:

Rusty wearies this at?

Ron

EMD, during the 75th anniversary open house.

Rusty

@coach joe posted:

Forgive me, I forgot the first one was an Allegheny.

IN  NOMINE  PATRIS  ES  FILII  ET  SPIRITUS  SANCTI.

You are forgiven JOSEPH. 

Thanks for the reply Joe.   Amid all the building up of the recent FISH DINNER ( locomotives ) acquisitions , I was even confused what happened.

I really like the detail on this 3rd Rail PRR H6.  I really should have dusted it off first

I caught The Champion at the 100th anniversary of the Washington Union Station back in 2008.