Front End Friday

Mark - thanks for the compliment on my collection.  It is haphazard, I only purchased what I liked over the years with little thought to any structure.  So I have an "assembly" of prewar and postwar Lionel, prewar Flyer, prewar and postwar Marx, prewar and postwar Hornby and French Hornby and a scattering of UK / Japan  tin plate even some floor trains.  As you can imagine with such a broad range of trains, I have a complete set of NOTHING!  But after starting in 1979 and to today, I am still having fun!!

I really liked that switcher of yours Mark, the C&O (B&O) are favorite Railroads of mine as we lived in Ohio for about 20 years and in Maryland just outside Baltimore for about 10 more.  I happen to think that the Lionel NW-2 is a great loco and after all these years I still do not have ONE!   I have that one on my "acquire list".

Again thanks for your comment

Don

Happy Front End Friday. Keeping with the C&O Switcher theme!

Happy front end Friday everyone!  Running some Lionel PW today.  Here is a Lionel 726RR against some fall foliage.  Have a great weekend everyone.

Have a Frisco Front End Friday:

Looking to get home and relax after a late night at work

Late at night, in a hotel room in NJ on a work trip.  I planned my FEF pictures last week so here they are.  A little different.  Speeders, Lionel Trolley and Train Runner, a Budd stop.

FEF!!! How quickly it comes around !

Today??? .... a 4 Volt Bing loco from around 1924

A late front end Friday addition. This is a Lionel Western Pacific F7 #918-D, a model of one of the last four WP F7's retired from service and donated to museums.

The real 918-D still runs excursions in Niles Canyon California, operated by the Pacific Locomotive Association (PLA). The other 3 WP F7's are in museums around Northern California.  Note that the model has the large WESTERN PACIFIC logo that was used when it pulled passenger trains. The paint job on the real 918-D has the smaller WP logo when it was relegated to freight trains. Another difference is the truck color. The model has silver trucks, but the current 918-D has black trucks, they may have been silver earlier in its life.

A link to a photo of the real #918 on the Niles Canyon Railway website is below.

Western Pacific #918D | Niles Canyon Railway (ncry.org)

Also, while you're on the ncry website, check out the restoration projects on Southern Pacific #1744 2-6-0 and SP #9010 Krauss Maffei diesel Hydraulic locomotive.

The other 3 F7's of the last 4 can be found at these museums.

#917 (operational) and #921 (not sure if it's in operating condition) are at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum in Portola, CA. This museum is just a few miles from the Williams Loop and the Keddie Y just before entering the Feather River Canyon to the west*.

*Side Note: The Keddie Y is owned by Union Pacific, but BNSF has trackage rights for trains coming out of Klamath Falls, Oregon heading for southern California using the western Y. UP trains generally come from Salt Lake City and use the eastern Y into the Feather River Canyon.

#913 resides and is in operating condition at the California Railroad Museum in Sacramento.

Happy Friday!

Front End Friday.....BNSF SD70MAC #9718 breaks thru the morning light hauling the coal to market.

Please check out my new video highlighting this locomotive and consist. Thanks.

Enjoy your weekend.

Donald

From my 2015 Christmas Layout

- walt

Classic Postwar Lionel 2343 Santa Fe AA set blowing on through a tunnel.

Here is my contribution to front end Friday. Love Lionel's F3 And I get a kick out of repairing damaged units.

Happy FEF!

A Pennsy confab.....

(L-R) Lionel PWC B6, K-line Boxcab, MTH FM H10-44, K-line A5.

Bob

Happy fef! New to me LTI NYC mohawk! Took the day off,got up early and did a little tlc on her.

Happy FeF from the subway. We're heading to Queens today -

So here are the front ends of my NYC diesel fleet.

Note the GPs and the FM are orientated correctly, long hood forward.

@Don McErlean posted:

Mark - thanks for the compliment on my collection.  It is haphazard, I only purchased what I liked over the years with little thought to any structure.  So I have an "assembly" of prewar and postwar Lionel, prewar Flyer, prewar and postwar Marx, prewar and postwar Hornby and French Hornby and a scattering of UK / Japan  tin plate even some floor trains.  As you can imagine with such a broad range of trains, I have a complete set of NOTHING!  But after starting in 1979 and to today, I am still having fun!!

I really liked that switcher of yours Mark, the C&O (B&O) are favorite Railroads of mine as we lived in Ohio for about 20 years and in Maryland just outside Baltimore for about 10 more.  I happen to think that the Lionel NW-2 is a great loco and after all these years I still do not have ONE!   I have that one on my "acquire list".

Again thanks for your comment

Don

Well, I just bought that on ebay about 2 weeks ago gave her a good degreasing and cleaning, rebuilt the e unit and runs like a champ, so like you it took about 30 years, God Speed Don

Have a good Front end all,

Here is my Front End Friday offering. Waiting clearance for the signals to clear, two New Haven streamlined I-5's each hauling a fast passenger train while a New Haven L1-a Mountain type and an O&W F3 A&B unit set are sporting freight cars. Most likely the passenger trains will get clearance first.

here are some front ends, for those that haven't already seen these.

Here's my submission for FeF. Happy Friday!

Lionel Legacy GS-2 SP Daylight, LionChief Plus 2.0 SP F7 AA black widows, and Lionel Legacy SP SW8 switcher all lined up.

Early morning equipment check at the "Charles Street yard..."

@WesternPacific2217 posted:

Here's my submission for FeF. Happy Friday!

Lionel Legacy GS-2 SP Daylight, LionChief Plus 2.0 SP F7 AA black widows, and Lionel Legacy SP SW8 switcher all lined up.

Love it Scott!

Larry your images aren't showing up on my laptop.

More Frisco for Friday!  These don't hold a candle to Rob's foursome but WTH.  These are from the Lionel Fallen Flags set #5.  I bought the whole set new from a LHS when they came out.  I came across a second engine and caboose at a train show years later.

Here are my end of the from kind for this fine Friday!  " Baby it's cold outside ... especially in the upper elevations of the Mountain Division!"

The business end of a flanger.  

Cold front ends.

@leapinlarry posted:

Wow, everyone is jumping into this Front End Friday thread, which is so much fun to review. Have a great weekend and a happy halloween. Happy Railroading Everyone

Hi Larry, FYI - your images did not post.

FEF NYO&W style!

Chris

LVHR

Patrick, nice shots but a little to wintery for me in October.

Thank you fellows for the heads up on my pictures not showing up. I guess it’s age? There’s so many beautiful pictures this Friday, and videos to, Happy Railroading Everyone

Some mighty sharp front ends there Larry!

Lionel Postwar F3

Lionel PRR E6 Atlantic

Lionel NYC Hudson

Percy and Thomas after a hard day's work.

A custom E6 waiting for its bottom cab step. Since applied.

Well I am a day late!  Took all day Friday trying to get home from the west...the weather and the airlines just were  not cooperating.  So here is my "Friday" contribution.  A F.E.F. view of my little Schillings loco that I purchased recently.

There she is, 1948 and ran on 4 D batteries.  Best wishes for a great weekend.  Happy Halloween!  Get your candy ready!!

Don

Alco PA on dead line.

@3rail posted:

Front End Friday.....BNSF SD70MAC #9718 breaks thru the morning light hauling the coal to market.

Donald

As many times that I have seen these BNSF locomotives , they still look great . 

Nice Don.

@Don McErlean posted:

There she is, 1948 and ran on 4 D batteries.  Best wishes for a great weekend.  Happy Halloween!  Get your candy ready!!

Don

Nice Don.

I can't get over the diversity of your offerings .    No matter how many posts I see, your equipment is always a treat to see .

Dallas - thank you for the compliment.  Glad you enjoyed the picture.

Best Wishes

Don

I took these 2 pictures on my way home from work last night. BNSF pulling loaded cars out of the Burlington Junctions Yard.

Front End Friday. Lionel's Union Pacific DD35A and EMD SD45 Demonstrator lead a load of Piggybacks to market. Have a great weekend everybody. Look for my new video hopefully next week highlighting these two locomotives. Is that a "dash" between the "D" and the "4"?

Donald

Good morning, FeFers,

The Pennsy had three classes of switchers, the A (0-4-0), B (0-6-0), and C (0-8-0) classes.  Towards the end of steam on the Pennsy, they also used H class (2-8-0).  Here is a photo of my switchers, an A5 on left, B6 in middle, and C1 on right.

MTH, K-Line, Weaver