Front End Friday

Moonson posted:

Front Ends in situ...

FrankM. Moon Township, USA

Frank, what type of track do you use? It blends in very well with your scenery.

Back in Sep 2013 my wife and I happened across the Flying Yankee enclosed in a protective cover.  It is in Lincoln, New Hampshire, in the back of the Hobo Railroad area.  There was a small opening that allowed my to take a picture of it.

We dropped by the Hobo Railroad again in Sep 2017 and the Flying Yankee was out in the open, minus its wheelsets.  While you really can't see it from these pictures, it looks a lot better now.  Hopefully it will get fully restored soon.

Here are some front ends.

gandydancer1950 posted:

Moonson posted:

Front Ends in situ...

FrankM. Moon Township, USA

Frank, what type of track do you use? It blends in very well with your scenery.

Gandydancer, (90 percent of the track on the entire layout, comprising eleven separate loops, begun in 1995, was referred to as "Hi-rail," was made by K-Line, if I recall correctly. 

One loop, the twelfth, which is in the newer section, is Gargraves, seen here on the left; Hi-rail on the right....

FrankM

Northbound Amtrak #92 Silver Star crew change at Hamlet Depot.

East Chicago, Indiana's mainline trackage passing the Arcelor Mittal Steel complex. 

FEF CB&Q 4960 at the Aurora Roundhouse Before a Fantrip

June 20, 1965

FEF 12/22/17   And,  MERRY CHRISTMAS. 

A Pennsy N1s heading out on an overnight mixed freight run in late 1949.  This engine had only a year left before it was retired in 1950 and scrapped shortly afterwards.  Its cab number, 9860, was reassigned to a FP7A in 1952.

This is a 3rd Rail model.

Rusty

Briansilvermustang, Thank you for that wonderful array of joy. People pull out all the stops when being creative at Christmastime, don't we.

FrankM

Does my Goat count....

Oh, it counts, all right, NESSMUCK. And that license plate gets extra-points for cleverness extraordinaire!

Apparently, you are a man who knows how to plan and make good decisions.

FrankM

American Flyer GP7 2017 vs. 1996:

Rusty

A Great Northern Rail Bonder has an interesting front end.

FEF 12/29/17

Depressing, BLE 2-10-4 rusting away............. 

my contribution to Front End Friday.......

SD70ACe

2 for 1

Couple of front pics of my new to me Williams PRR L1 .  Too bad the qsi board does not feed the light when in neutral....

I always liked the look of the Lionel Boston & Albany #618:

                            Hopefully all the TREE people will be packing it in soon. 

SIRT, I had to study carefully to decide if I were seeing real life or modeling. For real! If it weren't for those two girls on the left ramp and the outstretched-arms guy in the left foreground, all recognizable as models we have likely all used, I'd have concluded what I was seeing was real life, esp. with that train front aiming at us. Wow.

FrankM

From left:

1952? 2056

1937 259e

1946 2020

1946 221

1955? 2065

Moonson posted:

SIRT, I had to study carefully to decide if I were seeing real life or modeling. For real! If it weren't for those two girls on the left ramp and the outstretched-arms guy in the left foreground, all recognizable as models we have likely all used, I'd have concluded what I was seeing was real life, esp. with that train front aiming at us. Wow.

FrankM

I see the same in your fine modeling. Always good stuff to see!

Looks like the guy in the white shirt isn't to happy about waiting  .

Thanks, Frank.

A little Front End action, Union Pacific style...

(Please excuse me for repeating a couple of these shots, in my enthusiasm for UP and this thread, from a posting back in August of 2017.)

FrankM

Here are some more pictures from the Washington Union Station's 100th anniversary party in 2008.

Gentlemen,

  The 1925 Crescent Engine Phone head on, dust and all!

PCRR/Dave

Here's our Lionel Santa Fe U28c which has a surprising level of detail for it's age. Eventually I will replace the coupler with a Kadee and attach the pilot to the frame with a spacer from Mario.