Front End Friday

Happy FEF all, great stuff as usual. I started breaking down layout modules for moving to a new home this morning, but snapped this last layout construction photo before I started as it will probably be several months before I’ll be able to run trains again.

John

@Jgtrh62, wow, your front end diesel’s, one painted, one brass, look so good, your going to have a nice layout as time goes on, Happy Front End Friday, also Happy Railroading Everyone…

Sante Fe FM

@Dave Ripp. posted:

That is one gorgeous locomotive. I've always loved BL-2s and never understood why some folk's say their ugly.

Dave,

Thank you. I was really surprised how big BL2 was live, before I had only seen pictures of it. The bay windows are a great detail and that painting is really wonderful. 🤝

Johan

Some Southern hospitality on this fine Friday.  Have a great weekend everyone.

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Dave,

Thank you. I was really surprised how big BL2 was live, before I had only seen pictures of it. The bay windows are a great detail, and that painting is really wonderful. 🤝

Johan

There's one a couple hundred miles from me in Wisconsin. I wish I had taken pictures of it back in the early 2000's. Next time I'm there I will get pictures of #52.

Multiple FE's ........

Just a touch of SP for todays FEF

Cheers !!! 😜

@leapinlarry posted:, Today, my pictures are from a friends layout that I visited in Kentucky, actual steam locomotives on an outdoor G Gauge layout that really are powered by steam. Happy Railroading Everyone

LIVE  STEAM  from your friend in Kentucky  .............boy Larry that is some real model railroad dedication .

Really great Larry.   Thanks for sharing the photos.

Hey fellows, here’s a couple of pictures from different locations on the layout, Happy Railroading Everyone

Well F.E.F. folks, you have some wonderful posts, pictures, and videos...so I won't try and run down the list but all are super and a great way to start the weekend.  Here is my contribution today...Picture its 1946 the first "full" year after the WWII production restrictions are lifted.  Lionel is struggling to meet the post war demand and so to help that demand it falls back on some of its classic outfits (sets) from the pre-war period.  So here is the Lionel #224 2-6-2 that prewar was the 224E and the brown tinplate passenger cars.  Same as prewar but with post war couplers and trucks.  So here is outfit #2100 from 1946 (note it also came with green cars).

Best wishes for a great weekend everyone

Don

Engine Yard left to right.  Amtrak PH40, UP Heritage Katy SD70ACe

Lionel 773 Post War, Santa Fe 2-6-6-4, Santa fe F3 AA, Canadian Pacific F3 ABA

Have a great Weekend. It's 70 degrees and full sun in Newport, Ri today.

Happy Friday. If you would like to see more of my trains or layout please check the latest run 326 of O Gauge Rail-Roading or my YouTube channel https://youtube.com/channel/UCHs4jg3mH8wIsq4EyK6O24A  JD o gauge model trains

Happy FEF

HAPPY  FEF   EVERYONE.                                                             B&O  Ps3  Premier   and    M & P  Ps3  RK     coming out of hiding .

Third rail Fs.

My ever-growing roster of BNSF. Can’t get enough.

@walt rapp posted:

Still catching up.  These are from my 2013 Christmas Layout.

- walt

Tinplates on Parade! I love it! I recognize "The Blue Comet." Who's the other one?

@TrainBub posted:

Just a touch of SP for todays FEF

Cheers !!! 😜

Nice! Does anyone have the Legacy 300/301 AA set in the Cotton Belt livery? I've got #301 in BLI N-scale.

@Don McErlean posted:

Wow everyone, what a great display of pictures.  @walt rapp- Pitsburgh Brewing Company switcher, rare at 1/500 for sure @leapinlarry - Larry your layout and trains are super, love the pictures and the "Lionel" rock in the mountain side @RSJB18 - Sperry speeder, neat and hope you have great luck running it @Dave Ripp - RI FT is really neat @Fatman- Brimtoy really went all out on the litho, alas I only have the Britannia but I keep looking for the other two.  Patrick - great pictures, the Shay looks very realistic in the setting @Strap Hanger - great NY Yankee subway scene - now its ON TO 63! @Richie C.- neat looking switcher

Well guys, you all are often posting pictures of your beautiful (and large) engines while I seem to be stuck in the little engine line.  So I decided to pull out an engine I got in 1991 when we were living in a house with a huge basement and I was dreaming of a big layout...well you know how that goes,  The Navy decided we really needed to live in Washington D.C. with no basement!

So I have this beautiful Lionel #6-18007 Southern Pacific GS 4 and I have not been able to run it much since.  Its just too big for my current little layout.  This loco was at the front edge of Lionel's quest to add more and more elaborate features to its locomotives, just ahead of things like "Legacy".  It does have "Rail Sounds" activated by a button that connects to the track and steam through the steam chest as well as the stack.  Here are the features listed , too much to type.

Here is the F.E.F. view

The front quarter with the "Daylight" skirts.  I actually have a set of matching "Daylight" passenger cars but attaching them would make a train so long, it would go around my layout without moving.

The full side view, showing the tender where all the electronics are kept.  It attaches to the engine via a wire tether fitted with an RCA plug that plugs into the engine just below the cab.

And yes after 31 years she still does run beautifully, although I have to move "buildings" in order for her to get around my layout's tight clearances.  Some day...maybe larger radii and more room...who knows.

Best wishes everyone.

Don

Well, Don, If I can do it, You can do it

@Bill Swatos posted:

Well, Don, If I can do it, You can do it

Very cool Bill. Took me a few seconds to find the loco!

Bob

@Bill Swatos posted:

Tinplates on Parade! I love it! I recognize "The Blue Comet." Who's the other one?

It's a Liionel by MTH engine that came in a set for a train called it's Christmas Train. 

@Bill Swatos- Thanks for the encouragement Bill, who knows maybe I can find some space.

Thanks for the comment

Don

FOR THOSE OF US THAT LOSE TRACK OF TIME  ..............It's  already FEF  time again.

Gotta have enough power to pull the coal train.........

God speed everyone 

Here’s the flip side of what I posted on Tail End Tuesday (TET).
N&W K2a / 3rd Rail on left and  
J / MTH on right

Happy FEF   Cheers !!!! 🙂

Happy FEF all!

Last 3 modules standing before move time and breaking them down this evening.

John

John

Still catching up but not there yet.

2014

walt

Yes @Dallas Joseph, time flies when your having fun, beautiful video, lots of power to pull your train, wow.. Beautiful pictures everyone and have a fun weekend. Happy Railroading Everyone

@leapinlarry posted:

Yes @Dallas Joseph, time flies when your having fun, beautiful video, lots of power to pull your train, wow.. Beautiful pictures everyone and have a fun weekend. Happy Railroading Everyone

Thanks for the reply on the video Larry.

I thought about additional pulling power but when I delete a LASH UP  I have to go back in and add the engines sometimes.

Still getting a kick out of seeing leapinlarry's engines and scenery.   Nice.

Happy FEF!

Got crabs????

Bob

@RSJB18 posted:

Happy FEF!

Got crabs????

Bob

O K   Bob ,  I'm pretty thick on this...........what's  " Got crabs "

@Dallas Joseph posted:

O K   Bob ,  I'm pretty thick on this...........what's  " Got crabs "

Maryland......crab cakes.......

Happy FEF.

@RSJB18 posted:

Maryland......crab cakes.......

oh.     Somewhere it says that they are high in cholesterol .     But I think they sure are delicious 

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

Have a good Front end all,

@trumpettrain posted:

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

I don't know why I keep feeling that I am going to get run over when I am looking at your photos Patrick .

@ Dallas Joseph-  YES Dallas, Its Friday already.  Great video of those 5 (?) engines pulling that long coal train. @Train Bub jgr- two beautiful J'types @jgtrh62- nice looking SF diesels @leapinlarry - great pictures as always, the NKP 765 and the EV Santa Fe caboose were really neat @RSJB18 - neat switchers from the Baltimore area...Love those crab cakes / crabs at Phillips! @BAR GP7 #63- neat B&M pictures @trumpettrain - great action pictures today @Sitka- Good pictures of that PW Lionel switcher coming towards the camera, what # is that loco?   Great pictures and posts everyone!!

Well for me today, I have a returning veteran from the very end of the pre-war era.  The #204 die cast 2-4-2 was just about the last of the Lionel prewar diecast steamers.  She dates from 1940-1941 ( War Production Board stopped toy train production in 1942) and was never sold as an individual item, only in sets.  She served as the power in 15 different sets  in 1940 -41 all of them but one were freight sets and that one included both freight and passenger cars with the single locomotive.

Here is the F.E.F. view . She could be either gunmetal gray or black with any of the sets.  In those times I am sure it depended on what inventory was available as materials were getting scarce.

Here she is with her tender (Whistle in this case but also available w/o a whistle) moving the consist of one of her many sets, this one illustrates an example of the make up of #7100 WX from 1940 although some of the cars could vary in their details.

Here is a better look at the consist.

A shot at the train departing.

Happy Friday.

Best Wishes

Don

@Don McErlean posted:

@ Dallas Joseph-  YES Dallas, Its Friday already.  Great video of those 5 (?) engines pulling that long coal train. @Train Bub jgr- two beautiful J'types @jgtrh62- nice looking SF diesels @leapinlarry - great pictures as always, the NKP 765 and the EV Santa Fe caboose were really neat @RSJB18 - neat switchers from the Baltimore area...Love those crab cakes / crabs at Phillips! @BAR GP7 #63- neat B&M pictures @trumpettrain - great action pictures today @Sitka- Good pictures of that PW Lionel switcher coming towards the camera, what # is that loco?   Great pictures and posts everyone!!

Well for me today, I have a returning veteran from the very end of the pre-war era.  The #204 die cast 2-4-2 was just about the last of the Lionel prewar diecast steamers.  She dates from 1940-1941 ( War Production Board stopped toy train production in 1942) and was never sold as an individual item, only in sets.  She served as the power in 15 different sets  in 1940 -41 all of them but one were freight sets and that one included both freight and passenger cars with the single locomotive.

Here is the F.E.F. view . She could be either gunmetal gray or black with any of the sets.  In those times I am sure it depended on what inventory was available as materials were getting scarce.

Here she is with her tender (Whistle in this case but also available w/o a whistle) moving the consist of one of her many sets, this one illustrates an example of the make up of #7100 WX from 1940 although some of the cars could vary in their details.

Here is a better look at the consist.

A shot at the train departing.

Happy Friday.

Best Wishes

Don

Don that is a PW Lionel 624 C & O 1952-54 Has the 3 Handrail stanchions, I owe you some pictures of the layout, you have a nice collection looks like you're running out of room. Mark