Front End Friday

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

Old, weather beaten and neglected Docksider brings three cars across a bridge.  

Two trucks with different kinds of front ends.

Some shots from the club's permanent layout:

Murf's LIONEL SF SD40:

Ed2's Williams SRR ABA:

Rick's LIONEL Big Boy:

George's Williams C&O E-7:

Happy Front End Friday!!!

Heading a mixed train that my mother-in-law said they used to call a “hog and human” (back in Colorado in the 1920’s) is a Western Pacific SW 1. We made it from a Lionel NW 2 Santa Fe 623 switcher  

Rusty

FEF…have a great one! 🚂😉😺

I'll sneak in a picture this FeF I took probably 1975 or 76 in Toledo, OH.  Notice Alco trucks.

Well F.E.F. fans, great steam and diesels.  CAPPilot the detail on that PRR H-6 is really superb!  Rusty, PRRon, CAPPilot the pictures of the Champion were really great, what a beautiful locomotive.  Well today, I thought I might shift up things a little and switch to electric propulsion and "trolley's".  I was born in New Jersey, Bergen County, and lived there until I was 21 so I have a little soft spot for "Jersey"...so here is a Lionel Corp interpretation of a Bergen County Trolley.  Note...I actually do remember at about age 5-6 (1949-1950) actually riding on the trolley's in Bloomfield NJ where we lived until the NJ Turnpike took our house!  They were gone not long after that.

So here is the Front End Friday view of my Bergen County trolley.

The massive GP-7 and her local train waits in the hole for the "interurban" to go by !

Stopping at the station for a few commuters to catch a ride downtown.

Best wishes for a great weekend.  Happy Friday

Don

Happy FEF.

Your background photo of the lake is one of my most favorite images here on the Forum! SO realistic and enhances the illusion of a 'real' scene..

Have a Good Friday all !

Well, I certainly can't compete with some of the front ends shown here, complete with background scenery, but I am very partial to both front ends of these nicely finished engines, "Traveller" and "Twenty Grand" (racehorse names) that comprise a recent Legacy Frisco A-A set:

SIRT 489 was the very last locomotive built for the B&O New York Terminal subsidiary in 1945.

The model is a Custom Brass import from the 1970's, which has a few detail modifications to better follow the prototype.

In 1957 the prototype was renumbered 9033 in a B&O system wide renumbering. It left Staten Island in the early 1960's to work at other B&O locations, the last one being at East St. Louis IL. Retired in January 1979, the 9033 was sold to the Precision National Corp. of Mt Vernon IL in April of that year.

S. Islander 

Happy FEF everyone!

3 variations of Marx H0 New Haven switchers.

Steve

Happy FEF!

Great pix and stories again this week.

Here's my Santa Fe F3 showing of her new lights.

Rarely seen road name and one of my favorites, Bangor & Aroostook - these HO geeps were spotted at a train show in Easly SC a few weeks back.

@c.sam posted:

Your background photo of the lake is one of my most favorite images here on the Forum! SO realistic and enhances the illusion of a 'real' scene..

c.sam

C.SAM

Thank you. Nice to hear that you like the lake landscape, the water landscape will continue to be known as long as the modules progress.

Johan

The pride of my fleet, #35 4-6-0.

Andy

Here's FeF with my new 4 RR Track crossing a SP SW8 I've posted before.

I like your 4 track crossings, Scott. All they need now are crossbucks. 😉 Good job. 👍

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Here's FeF with my new 4 RR Track crossing a SP SW8 I've posted before.

Looks like that last crossing with the curve worked out well Scott .

Thanks Yellowstone and Dallas, I think it worked out pretty good. I posted a couple of other photos in "What did you do on your layout today" thread as well.

Have a great Friday all,

Happy Front End Friday everyone!

I have a new locomotive, a really BIG new locomotive, rolling on my outer mainline. It's a MTH Q2 Duplex, the new contender for biggest engine in my collection. Wooosh, there she goes!

I'm still running my Legacy SW8 on the inner line.

We're hauling freight on Ken's railroad today!

Happy FEF!

LIRR SW8 waiting patiently on team track # 1

Hi FEFers.  Been a busy week and did not realize it was Friday already.

Here are a few front ends that I need to take down from the shelf and run!

White Pass and Yukon and Alaska F.E.F.

Happy FEF. Maine Central GP38 #255 somewhere in Maine.

Marx H0 set 60870. Unusual feature, this GP-7 was a low price set. Only one I know of where they left off the drive shaft and all the gearing in the rear truck so it’s 4 wheel drive instead of 8. That’s why it’s such a small set.

Steve

Quick run last night as I was shooting some footage. Lionel legacy B-6

Happy FEF fellows,  Great pictures everyone and I hope our Texas friend, Don McErlean chimes in with his Texas Special one more time, here’s a few shots around the layout. Happy Railroading Everyone

Wow, looks great Ed'.  Are you happy with the color?  I heard others are not.. I'd love to see a video, when you have time.....😁📸👀

Well Larry, how could I refuse your request!  Thanks for asking!  Here she is, the Lionel 210 "Texas Special" Alco from 1958

Here are the double A's ready to pull a freight up the main

Here is a short video of her in action.

Happy F.E.F everyone...best wishes

Don

Thank you Don, it’s a beautiful train, my being from Dennison Texas, it’s just one of my favorite road names. Happy Railroading Everyone

Two front ends, one possibly more authentic than the other. Anyway, I have run them together and they match:

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

Pennsy A5 all weather beaten and a new 1956 Ford!  

Shay front end as it's being serviced.  

@trumpettrain posted:

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

Pennsy A5 all weather beaten and a new 1956 Ford!  

Shay front end as it's being serviced.  

Patrick, I did not know you had a Shay, must have missed that. It looks like a 3 truck Shay, what railroad, I can't read the front number plate? I've seen Mr. Rusty weathered Pennsy before, still looks great.

I've had the pleasure of riding behind both the 2 truck and 3 truck Shay's at Roaring Camp in the Santa Cruz Mountains, CA. They pull a 8% grade on they're daily excursions. Shay's are incredible locomotives. Thanks for sharing them.

Nice '56 Ford too! you have some great automobiles on your layout.