Here are my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!
Reading Train Master westbound on the mainline. 
B&O passenger equipped GP 9 westbound. 
B&O Plymouth switcher, Ma & Pa Sw 1 and old Chevy pickup ... a trio of front ends. 
Here's a Lionel Santa Fe GP30 coming at cha.
Just arrived from Berwyn Hobby and might as well post to FEF
@jjwyatt posted:Just arrived from Berwyn Hobby and might as well post to FEF
Wow that unit is gorgious. In my opoinion, that's the best custom run Berwyn's has done to date!
@Dave Ripp. posted:Wow that unit is gorgious. In my opoinion, that's the best custom run Berwyn's has done to date!
Yes very pleased. I have the non powered A unit also just not pictured and will run them later tonight with some IC freight. They had available two powered A units different road number and the non powered A unit just for awareness. I just went with an AA consist.
Happy FEF!
Another great week of photos.
I have a new addition to the fleet. Boston and Maine RS-3 (MTH PS2)
Bob
@Wood posted:
Lionel UP GP7 Early Legacy era and UP Genset Switcher.
Was just doing a little catching up with this thread. Seems like I’ve seen these UPs before, Wood. 🤔 Oh that’s right, it was on another forum awhile back. 😂. Good to see you here.
Yes, Vern I have returned home and love it. Splendid work and modeling on this forum.
Ever take a close up photo, put it on the forum, then when you see it, you discover something that you should have caught BEFORE you took the photo? Anyway, in the previous photo of my Lionel Santa Fe GP30, the right side railing was out of its front stanchion and looks terrible. So, I tried to straighten the wire railing a little with small needle-nose pliers, but scratched the paint placing and holding it briefly with a tiny droplet of ZAP A Gap in the front stanchion. It looks a little better, but now I have to find some Santa Fe Yellow paint and touch it up. Maybe I should have left it alone. Oh well. 
Rail King C&O pausing at the passenger station.
RMT Beeps on the around the ceiling tracks.
FEF with a Marx 999.
continue to look backwards in time. this is from my 2004 Christmas Layout.
- walt
@SIRT posted:EL2558 These are great photos of your replication of the 2558. 53 years later!!!
(My 1969 photos taken in the Kent Ohio Yard)
Have a good Friday all,
The horn of this R.C., P & E train is about to stir up the animals at the Kingsbury Co, SD 4H show. 
A couple of engines (and cars) I inherited from by brother.
Well hello F.E.F. fans, today I thought I would switch to what is perhaps a lessor known brand of toy trains. Haffner...Mr. Hafner after he split with W.Coleman of American Flyer initiated his own brand of toys. He passed away in the early 40's but the company was taken over by his son and run successfully until about 1956 when he sold out to Wyandotte Toys. IAW the original Mr. Hafner's philosophy, they never made electric trains...Mr. Hafner felt that electric trains were too expensive to be a toy. So clockwork it was and was until the end.
Since we are at our vacation place, here are some pictures from my "summer porch" layout featuring the Hafner 1010 streamlined loco and some of his "streamlined" freight cars.
Here is the "mighty" Hafner 1010 streamlined steamer. OBTW in a late interview, Hafner's son told the interviewer that they often used the number 1010 because that was the street address of their factory in Chicago!!
Front end close up. Note fixed key, a Hafner characteristic because he felt that young children were always losing the key and hence missing out on playtime...so he fixed the key to the motor.
Here is the full train, with the "streamlined" auto box car and caboose. Please note the spectacular scenery on the "summer porch" layout...a frozen lake in the middle of a freshly covered by snow meadow.
Here is the original box for the loco. This fellow was likely postwar and would have been in the early 50's. Hafner made this style of loco beginning in 1938 and it remained in the line until about 1954 , just before the Wyandotte take over.
Happy Friday everyone. Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Best wishes
Don
@tnkMarx: That's a great Marx 999 you've got there. If I'm not mistaken, that's got the closed-spoke pilot that's really hard to find. Cool to see one up close like that!
For today's Front End Friday, how about a trio of Baldwin DR6s? We have from right to left: my Central New Jersey FM conversion, an unpainted/unbuild cab from a kit and a jumbo-sized, 1:32 scale version of the same that I'm making for a friend. (I did a full report on the CNJ DR6 just last week if you'd like to take a look!)
Early morning equipment check at the "Charles Street Yard"...
Happy FEF!
Happy FEF all!
Trainfam
Happy FEF! More of my F3's with one Dash 9.
Lionel circa 1938-39: Scale?.. what's that? Just have fun and run your tinplate! Happy Friday everyone 
Front ends for this fine Friday! 
This thread has run so long, I don't know if this is a repost or not???? 
One thing I do know is that this photo goes back to the OLD Paradise and Pacific Layout that was demolished in 2010 in preparation to move into our new building in 2011. I have fond memories of operating on that layout, but the new layout and building is such a vast improvement for both operators and visitors!
@trumpettrain posted:Front ends for this fine Friday!
Patrick,
Are you sure that that is the front end, not the back end??
Nice pic!
Still Friday Central time. Here’s my first submittal.
Cheers !!! 🙂
At the Kirkwood Mo. Amtrak station
And a Favorite. 🙂🙂🙂
Setting up a small H0 section to the layout. The roadbed track won’t work with the Marklin engine house.
Here is a little quiz for FEF! ....
What is this fine fellow ? ( spoiler alert its down below lol)
This is the front of a German Technofix Rangierbahn set from 1937 .... the set comes with the little loco and 3 long sections of track , the loco has a clever automatic reversing mechanism where the drive wheels move to opposite sides of the main drive cog , pushed by a little trip point in the tracks , so it will shuttle back and forth along the straight rail until the wind runs out ...
Finding the locos is not too hard , but the tracks are a different matter as once bent or stepped on they become useless, and time and tide has eaten many ... In over 10 years of searching for just tracks I have only found 2 complete sets of just tracks.
( I did find an ebay seller in the US many years ago who had three sets of just the track and didn't know what they were, but flat out refused to sell them to me as they wouldn't post internationally lol ... whyyyy dear lord whyyyyy?)
Thanks everyone for the likes on my video!!
Front End Friday...Maersk...in recognition of their unique train painted for a promotional video 32 years ago. Also, check out my new video highlighting my Lionel Maersk train.
Donald
Photos of me and the Front End of CSX #3080 (ES44AC-H) in Folkston, GA last week
My new (to me) 385! Now the hunt for passenger cars. 
Happy FEF!
Bob
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