Front End Friday

Happy FEF!

A shot from our visit to GCT and the NY Transit Museum Gallery store holiday layout.

Bob

Now, it’s -3 degrees here in Clarksville Tennessee and that’s Cold, but the trains must keep moving. It’s snowing here, and it’s beginning to look and feel like Christmas. Happy FEF Everyone. It’s a great day to work on our model railroads… @Lionelskii, John,  I love that tinplate scene, beautiful locomotive, a Wow. Happy Railroading Everyone

Legacy Camelback coming out of the recently blasted tunnel.

Happy Holidays

MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!!! 🚂🎅🏻🎄

@tnkMarx posted:

The storm has hit and its time to clear the tracks!  

Happy FEF!

Nice machine for the CN piles of snow falling

Here in west central Pa. the snow is clearing itself with a perfect HIGH VELOCITY HORIZONTAL flow.

Stay warm and safe everyone.

Merry Christmas on this front end Friday.

A little Jersey Central action.

Happy FeF with more Subways-

Happy FEF.

HAPPY FEF indeed!

Front end of my latest creation (or is it the back end??)

For more on this piece please go here: https://www.warrenvillerailroa...totype-how-i-made-it

Well its late on Friday and we are on the East Coast in Georgia so I am pulling from my archive as I am separated from the collection by 1125 miles.  If you have seen some of these before, I am sorry, its the best I can do considering the circumstances.

Great pictures everyone, I really enjoyed this Friday before Christmas. Here is wishing all a very Happy Holiday and the very best in the New Year.  Here are some vintage "front ends" to add to your nostalgic Christmas album.  

An American Flyer 3110 up close in front.  The green and red livery is in celebration of Christmas (only kidding!)

An American Flyer Type X no 3308 from 1932

An American Flyer steeple cab # 1211

A Dressler clockwork and HWN coaches from the 1950's

A KLINE MP-15 from the 1980's

Happy Friday everyone and all the best for the holiday season

Don

Another late night FeF post!

Southern Pacific Daylight pulled by #4415 GS-2 rolling into Paradise station arriving from San Francisco. Busy night at the station, Holiday travelers awaiting their train to visit family and friends while others await arrivals.

Little late with the lack of power, NYC getting ready to clear the tracks, Have a good Christmas Eve!

Well....we made it. Happy New Year and have a great 2023. Here is my FEF pic. Hope you like it.

I also just posted a new video in the "photo and video album" highlighting this Hudson plus my ATSF #3751 hauling a bunch of heavyweight Lionel passenger cars.

Donald

@3rail posted:

Well....we made it. Happy New Year and have a great 2023. Here is my FEF pic.               Hope you like it.

Definitely like it Donald.           Good looking seen also sir.

Happy FEF!

One of my favorite K-line Plymouth's.

Bob

Happy final FEF of 2022.

Happy FEF….low light postwar Lionel F3 ABA and prewar Lionel 264E.

John

@3rail posted:

Well....we made it. Happy New Year and have a great 2023. Here is my FEF pic. Hope you like it.

I also just posted a new video in the "photo and video album" highlighting this Hudson plus my ATSF #3751 hauling a bunch of heavyweight Lionel passenger cars.

Donald

Great looking engine!! 3rail, Mark

Have a great FEF PW Lionel , MPC and Williams running the rails. Buy a Veteran Dinner

Here's my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   Happy New Year everyone!!

Final FEF for 2022…have a great one…🚂😉

Better get in on the last Friday 2022.  As I am slowly reducing my modern diesel roster, these two have left the building.  Left one a diecast beauty, and the other a nice Legacy model.  Both were great runners.  

My 384 MTH  Baltimore and Ohio filling the room up with smoke .

Beautiful pictures on this Front End Friday, Happy Railroading Everyone

Happy FEF, last one for 2022.

SP GS6 4460 at Natl. Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood Mo.

And  
my MTH SP GS2 sitting idle in my little “empire”Cheers 🙂

@leapinlarry  I see AT&SF #3222 peeking out of your round house, Larry.  First Lionel brass hybrid offering.  I have that one too.  Such a nice model.  I do wish the lighting was more warm or yellow though.  I think that would have been more prototypical.  Great front end shots.  

The South Fork Railroad welcomes Lionel Vision Line N&W 1218 Excursion engine.  

It’s a frigid front end morning on the platform as the 7 train prepares to depart

Can’t wait to run this guy - the engine and tender are huge 👍🏼😊🚂

@TrainBub posted:

Happy FEF, last one for 2022.

SP GS6 4460 at Natl. Museum of Transportation in Kirkwood Mo.

And  
my MTH SP GS2 sitting idle in my little “empire”Cheers 🙂

Trainbub, nice pics, love the GS series! Very cool to see an MTH version. Here's my GS locos side by side, these are Lionel.

Western Pacific 485 GS-64 and Southern Pacific Daylight GS-2 4415. So, SP 4460 a GS-6, and WP 485 GS-64 were built in the same batch at LIMA during WWII. There are a few differences between SP and WP as the SP version had some Patented designs, so WP had to go with more generic components.

Lots of great photos this FEF, thanks and Happy New Year to you all!

Happy FEF on the last FEF of 2022!

Happy FEF everybody!

Last FEF for 2022!

Hoping everyone has a terrific and trouble free 2023

A little Bing 4Volt locomotive love ... built low voltage for running on a battery as many rural towns of the day did not have electricity ..

I think most folks here are familiar with Pennsy's Torpedo, a fully shrouded K4.  The shroud was added in 1936 to modernize the Broadway Limited passenger train.  Some of the shrouds were removed during WWII for easier maintenance and not reinstalled, and that is how my Weaver model here looks.

The Pennsy had four other K4s that were streamlined to a lessor degree so they could be maintained easier.  Many considered these streamlined engines to be better looking than the Torpedo.  Here is my Williams model.

There was one other engine that received streamling along the boiler top, or a "skyline" casing, but no other streamlining.  Do not have a picture of this one I can post.

All streamlining on these engines were removed around 1950.

I am sure this isn't a new pun. What's UP with you? My front end Friday is UP. I light it UP as well. And from UP above.

@Train Mike posted:

I am sure this isn't a new pun. What's UP with you? My front end Friday is UP. I light it UP as well. And from UP above.

And I bet all those trains were delivered by UPS. 😳  😉        🤣🤣🤣

@TrainBub posted:

And I bet all those trains were delivered by UPS. 😳  😉        🤣🤣🤣

Hey Bub.............

Well here I am some 12 hrs late, as its noon on Saturday.  However I could not let the last F.E.F. of 2022 go without a post.  So today I have some Hafner locomotives for you.  These are all clockwork, Mr. Hafner did not believe in electric trains (too expensive to be toys he believed).  So here we go down through the years.

Here is a Hafner 1100 steamer from the 1930's.

Two Hafner 1010's from 1938 through the early 1950's.  One rather plain just black and some silver painted accents.  The other a more top end version, red and chrome.

Finally a very late Hafner (Wyandotte at this point) 2000 steamer from about 1956

Well I guess better late than never...and of course 2022 is just about gone forever so I had to try and make it.

Best wishes for a happy, healthy, and very successful New Year

Don

@Train Mike posted:

I am sure this isn't a new pun. What's UP with you? My front end Friday is UP. I light it UP as well. And from UP above.

Love those floor runners! I know the feeling! Floor Runners Forever!