Front End Friday

Happy FEF!

More Santa Fe

Have a great FEF…🚂😉😺

Here's a front end from the past - before a conductor decided to occupy the front cab -

Here are a couple I took this morning. A little dark the sun was on the backside.

Well hello everyone...its F.E.F. again, the end the first week of fall?  @3rail- Great Amtrak loco.  One question, when you say you posted a new video...where do you post it?  @tnkMarx- a beautiful B&O switcher, what make is that?  I see a Lionel pre-war tanker in the background.  @Sitka - a "KLINE" big boy, well that's neat, never knew that KLINE made such an engine...really neat. @GG1 4877 - "what a nose" your right who doesn't love that one!  @walt rapp - great pictures of your former layouts...love the "Heinz Pickle Car".

OK for me today, I am taking my inspiration from Fatman and his Hornby Silver Link.  In my case, its a Brimtoy, "Silver Streak" also from the time of the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary, 1935.  Here from 1936 was the Brimtoy version of those famous celebratory trains in real life.

I do not have the full set as does Fatman nor do I even have the silver #2509 tender, but here is the "front end Friday" view of the locomotive.

Here are some side views , showing the name ..."Silver Streak"

Best wishes everyone.  Hope you have a great weekend

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well hello everyone...its F.E.F. again, the end the first week of fall?  @3rail- Great Amtrak loco.  One question, when you say you posted a new video...where do you post it?

All of videos and pictures are posted in the same folder as “front end Friday”. In “miscellaneous” and “pictures, videos”. Hope that helps.

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

Well hello everyone...its F.E.F. again, the end the first week of fall?  @3rail- Great Amtrak loco.  One question, when you say you posted a new video...where do you post it?  @tnkMarx- a beautiful B&O switcher, what make is that?  I see a Lionel pre-war tanker in the background.  @Sitka - a "KLINE" big boy, well that's neat, never knew that KLINE made such an engine...really neat. @GG1 4877 - "what a nose" your right who doesn't love that one!  @walt rapp - great pictures of your former layouts...love the "Heinz Pickle Car".

OK for me today, I am taking my inspiration from Fatman and his Hornby Silver Link.  In my case, its a Brimtoy, "Silver Streak" also from the time of the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary, 1935.  Here from 1936 was the Brimtoy version of those famous celebratory trains in real life.

I do not have the full set as does Fatman nor do I even have the silver #2509 tender, but here is the "front end Friday" view of the locomotive.

Here are some side views , showing the name ..."Silver Streak"

Best wishes everyone.  Hope you have a great weekend

Don

Don-

The S2 switcher is a Lionel.

The tank car in the background is actually Marx.

Happy FEF. Amtrak`s Downeaster in Portland bound for Boston.

Happy FEF. Here are some of my favorite F units.

Happy FEF everyone from the Hoosier Line!

Strap, does your 4 train go underground just below Yankee Stadium like the real one in Da Bronx?

Well fellows, getting yard work caught up, having a garage sale for the wife Saturday the 10th, keeps one really busy, but, there’s a lot of beautiful locomotives and diesels pictured here this fine Friday. Happy Railroading Everyone

@Tom Morris posted:

Happy FEF. Here are some of my favorite F units.

Gotta love all those Covered Wagons! F Series are my favs in any railroad!

@coach joe posted:

Strap, does your 4 train go underground just below Yankee Stadium like the real one in Da Bronx?

Not yet, Coach. However, construction of that route is set to begin after retirement. I’ve always wanted to connect my elevated and subway lines. In the meantime, that 4 train is strangely running around on a mysterious elevated line somewhere in Queens.

Boy, Ben (BlueLineC4) must be at the controls of that 4 if it's in Queens.

Front of back end on this FEF.

OROBR ( Germany ) floor train ....

And a BIC cigarette lighter for scale

However being more traditional ...

A Pre-war 3501 Distler clockwork loco and tender ( Germany again)

Happy FEF !

Here's my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   I snapped these last weekend while at the B&O Museum in Baltimore.

Here are two more ends of the front kind ( in model form ) for this fine Friday!  

The powerful Y6b Mallet.

SW9 bursts forth from a tunnel.  

Couple F Units Have a good weekend Support your Military

Here’s a nice pair for FEF !!! 😜

Cheers !!! 🙂

Once again, I have to reach back in time for mine.  This is from my 2009 Christmas Layout.  This is an MTH Railking Iron City engine leading an entire trainful of Iron City Railking cars.

- walt

Lining up the E-Units basking in the morning sun.  For the purists there is a paradox in this lineup, but I can live with it.

Happy FEF. Here is some of my favorite Steam.

Happy FEF! great photos so far, but it looks like this thread needs some more subway trains -

And more cowbell

Happy FEF!

Happy F.E.F. everyone, great pictures all...back on 9/2 I posted that a train show in Austin,Tx had yielded a new switcher (SR  U36b) and I would post the front ends and then try to get her operating for SwSat.  Well surprisingly, the same thing has happened again, a train show in Plano, Tx happened last Saturday and a "new" switcher has arrived on the property.  Front end pictures today and maybe some operating videos tomorrow.  Thank goodness the "post COVID" world has arrived again and all our train shows are re-starting.

So its a "little guy", the Lionel #18912 Amtrak Industrial Switcher from 1993, the Richard Kughn era.  DC can motor with a rectifier to run on AC plus electronic reverse and headlight, its fairly sophisticated for its era and size and I found it basically NIB.  So here is my new Amtrak Industrial Switcher.

Here is the F.E.F. view with her exiting my "yard".

Here is a front quarter view with her handling an Amtrak express/baggage car and hooking it up to the passenger train waiting to get underway north on the Leonardtown and Savannah.

Best Wishes for a Friday and hope you have a great weekend.

Don

@TrainBub posted:

Here’s a nice pair for FEF !!! 😜

Cheers !!! 🙂

That early "orangy" paint scheme is really growing on me.  Perhaps there will be enough interest in a second run?  Just what I need!

@GG1 4877 posted:

That early "orangy" paint scheme is really growing on me.  Perhaps there will be enough interest in a second run?  Just what I need!

Perhaps “do-able” (???) in conjunction with the fairly new offering of the SF Super Chief ??? Perhaps at that time Scott might even offer some single “A” units. I Really wanted to have him to also offer the Little known Alton / GM&O EA. (B&O “sold” one to their sub The Alton which ended up merged with GM&O). There was only One “A” unit. Perhaps this elusive gem can be added to a second run. 🤔

Here is a scene on my layout:

Railking Erie-Lackawanna AS 616

@RSJB18 posted:

And more cowbell

Definitely more cow bell! LOL!

Happy Friday everyone!

I do like the long nose of those early E models.

Lionel E6.  MTH Q2 in background.

MEC holding at the quarry for a load of marble. Great pics, everyone!!

These are from the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strausburg, PA.

Loved the images this week.  Sorry to be late and have a great weekend.

Wood