Front End Friday

Happy Rusty FEF !

                                                                S.I.

Happy FEF. CP's Train G13 Northern Maine Junction to Searsport switching some cars before continuing on towards Searsport. The locomotives are EMD GP20C ECO's #2257, #2280 and #2262.

Still reaching back in time for mine.  2005 Christmas Layout here.

Don't miss that Pennsy S-2 hiding behind some trees.

- walt

Couple Pennsy Turbine with a standoff with a horse, have a good Friday

This Friday's installment.  A cast HO Varney F3 I custom painted and detailed for my uncle 26 years ago.

@SIRT, Steve , awesome pictures, I love the bus on the bridge with the two switchers at work below, awesome weathering, Wow, @Walt Ripp, beautiful scene from the past, looking great, great memories to, Wow, @Sitka, now there’s a horse holding up progress of the day, beautiful scene, Wow… @Bar GP7 #63, Johan, Wow, those are beautiful CP Diesels, great pictures, @Fatman, that’s an oldie but a goodie, American Flyer made some nice trains, now it’s time for our friend from Texas, @Don McErlean, to chime in with some brief history lessons about some of his oldies but goodies, however he may be traveling today from Tybee Island Ga., to his home in Texas… Here’s some fronts for review…. Happy Railroading Everyone

EMD E series Diesel in B&O livery.

3 PRR locomotives ready to leave the yard for nighttime assignments.

Good morning everyone, time for some fun with the FEF. 

First up are the Disney Trains when we visited the engine house.

Next up is the Budd Diesel car approaching the Fenway stop.

The best Post War 1656 switcher Lionel ever made next to the great 773 Hudson

Finally, an old pic from the layout with Vermont livery, original TMCC Santa Fe F3 and the Lionel 226 Prairie runner, all smokers.

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

Brakeman Clint Childs rides the front step of Pennsy A5.

A 1930's era Ford stake body truck.  That's Jake Crowley tipping his hat to the photographer.

Front end of a Chevy truck circa 1950.

Wow @phlashgrdon great modeling. Love the edges of that mainline.

Thank you !

Front end Friday or Tail end Tuesday? With Subways, one never knows-

The Sant Fe PA approaches the South Main Street crossing...

Former 2343 in GM&O livery:

Ron

@Strap Hanger posted:

Front end Friday or Tail end Tuesday? With Subways, one never knows-

Awesome - more pictures please.  Jim

@jgtrh62 posted:

Happy Front End Friday everyone!

John

WOW!!!!!! If it weren't for the unpainted brass loco I would've thought this was 1/1 scale.

Love the ad on this bus.

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Happy FEF. CP's Train G13 Northern Maine Junction to Searsport switching some cars before continuing on towards Searsport. The locomotives are EMD GP20C ECO's #2257, #2280 and #2262.

Great photo from you trip stateside.

@Strap Hanger posted:

Front end Friday or Tail end Tuesday? With Subways, one never knows-

What an incredible terminal.  Very imposing, with two track levels, an imposing edifice, and stylish subway stairs.

@PRRronbh posted:

Ron

I think we need to change your forum name to Mr. Turbine.

@leapinlarry posted:

@SIRT, Steve , awesome pictures, I love the bus on the bridge with the two switchers at work below, awesome weathering, Wow, @Walt Ripp, beautiful scene from the past, looking great, great memories to, Wow, @Sitka, now there’s a horse holding up progress of the day, beautiful scene, Wow… @Bar GP7 #63, Johan, Wow, those are beautiful CP Diesels, great pictures, @Fatman, that’s an oldie but a goodie, American Flyer made some nice trains, now it’s time for our friend from Texas, @Don McErlean, to chime in with some brief history lessons about some of his oldies but goodies, however he may be traveling today from Tybee Island Ga., to his home in Texas… Here’s some fronts for review…. Happy Railroading Everyone

I'm simply awestruck by your post.  AGAIN!

HAPPY  FRONT  END  FRIDAY .....from the lower level  train , sewing , painting and carving rooms .

🌜🎼  HI HO  🎶 HI HO ...............

( honestly .......I'm still running trains when I need to take a break for mental incubation )

Does this still count. We had to change out the combo on axle 1 to a bearing that seized up.

Yup for me! Best FEF pic of the day!

Here is a little German freight engine I got at the Technical Museum in Speyer Germany Sorry I am on the road traveling home from vacation and this is from my phone and all I had  

Best Wishes

Don

Diesel FEF.

@Amfleet25124 posted:

Photos of me and the Front End of CSX #3080 (ES44AC-H) in Folkston, GA last week

Kevin, nice to see those youngsters rail fanning'... Been meaning to ask you what camera are you using to shoot those long videos with...?  Very nice quality videos...

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Kevin, nice to see those youngsters rail fanning'... Been meaning to ask you what camera are you using to shoot those long videos with...?  Very nice quality videos...

Thanks Ted.

Those youngsters are kids of one of my wife's work colleagues.  They are into trains big time. Interestingly enough, neither group of us were aware that we would both be in Folkston at the same time, so it was a humorous meet up.

Regarding the camera, it's a basic Nikon D3300 DSLR. A few of the videos were also done with my cell phone camera.

Happy Front End Friday!!

@coach joe posted:

Great photo from you trip stateside.

Thank you Joe.

The trip exceeded expectations many times over and thousands of pictures were collected. A special thanks goes to Joey and Gary who had gone to great lengths and arranged many nice surprises for us. For example, on the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Museum Railway, we had our own ex-Maine Central caboose on the train. Joey also acted as our guide for three days. The model railway hobby can lead to everything. Pictured from left to right Johan, Joey, Hannu & Gary.

Johan

@BAR GP7 #63 

That's a terrific picture of your group.  The Belfast & Moosehead RR is the oldest continuous operating RR in the U.S.A. They have a great museum and online information.  I have had the opportunity to enjoy the tour and visit there each year when we attend the Common Ground Country Fair in Unity Maine.  Belfast is also a great small coastal city to visit.

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Thank you Joe.

The trip exceeded expectations many times over and thousands of pictures were collected. A special thanks goes to Joey and Gary who had gone to great lengths and arranged many nice surprises for us. For example, on the Belfast & Moosehead Lake Museum Railway, we had our own ex-Maine Central caboose on the train. Joey also acted as our guide for three days. The model railway hobby can lead to everything. Pictured from left to right Johan, Joey, Hannu & Gary.

Johan

@Wood posted:

That's a terrific picture of your group.  The Belfast & Moosehead RR is the oldest continuous operating RR in the U.S.A. They have a great museum and online information.  I have had the opportunity to enjoy the tour and visit there each year when we attend the Common Ground Country Fair in Unity Maine.  Belfast is also a great small coastal city to visit.

The Belfast and Moosehead was featured briefly on a recent episode of Maine Cabin Masters on Magnolia Network. The crew took the train up to a camp site (which also had a bay window caboose on the property),  in the opening scene of the show. I believe the same GEEP was pulling the train.

Bob

@coach joe posted:

Love the ad on this bus.

Me too Joe.

@SIRT- Where's Fats?

@Wood posted:

Good morning everyone, time for some fun with the FEF.

First up are the Disney Trains when we visited the engine house.

@Wood, here is a shot of my modified MTH 4-6-0 I purchased from an auction web site a few years ago.  The Disney World trains were so impressive when visiting the park - great photos! Unfortunately they weren’t running the last two times we visited, and I’m not sure if they are running again or not.  Hopefully your photo is recent and they are running again.

@rjsmithindy posted:

@Wood, here is a shot of my modified MTH 4-6-0 I purchased from an auction web site a few years ago.  The Disney World trains were so impressive when visiting the park - great photos! Unfortunately they weren’t running the last two times we visited, and I’m not sure if they are running again or not.  Hopefully your photo is recent and they are running again.

Rob, That is a beautiful locomotive.  My last visit was around 7 or 8 years ago.  The 5:30 am visit to the Engine house was the top event for me. They also had all the monorails working out of this location. Pretty impressive shop.

Good morning on this Front End Friday.

Front photos from my trip - last week Friday actually - to the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum (TVRM) in Chattanooga.

First, by the entrance there is a Hartford & Slocumb Railroad #913 ALCO RS-1

Next is a TVRM #8669 RSD-1

Then, a Gallatin Fossil Plant #3060 Fairbanks-Morse FM H-16-66 "Baby Train Master"

Then, a Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis #710 EMD GP7 that powered the tour train

As the tour train reached the end of the line we passed this Southern Railway #4501 Baldwin Mikado getting fired up for work on Saturday (the TVRM uses the steamers to run the tours on the weekends).  Apologies for the glare and resolution as these were screenshots of the video taken through the window of the coach I was riding in.

Another screenshot of a video, this time a Southern Railway #2594 EMD GP-30

Now, the tour of the back shops commences, first is the Central of Georgia Railway #109 ALCO RS-3

Then a TVRM #606 EMD SW1200

Then a TVRM #1824 EMD GP-7L

These two in the shade, a Southern Railway #6914 EMD E8 and an US Army #610 Baldwin 2-8-2

Inside the shops, one of the two steamers used for tours is being worked on, the Southern Railway #630 ALCO 2-8-0.  It was amazing seeing the guts all open.

There a couple other locomotives that I didn't get to take photos of.  This was an active railroad yard, of course, and guests weren't supposed to wander off.

On the train ride back to the station, I sat on the other side of the train and caught these 4 front ends coupled on a siding (screenshot stills of my video).  A TVRM #7100 ALCO S-2, formerly of the US Army

Two TVRM EMD F7's, #578 and #576

And a Southern Railway #3170 EMD SD40

Last but not least, back out in the TVRM parking lot, I took pictures of this Canadian National Railway #5288 Montreal Locomotive Works 4-6-2

HAPPY FRONT END FRIDAY!!!

That looks like a terrific trip Kevin. Always nice to visit a train museum. Thanks for sharing.