Front End Friday

More postwar fef. This is just a smooth runner!

Happy FEF!

Happy FEF — Atlas SD40-2 with PS3

Here's my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   I took these photos of Canton RR locomotives at their yard in Baltimore City back in 2019.   Primarily a switching road, the Canton RR is Baltimore's oldest railroad which serves the harbor, factories, and warehouse in the Canton section of Baltimore City.

Happy FeF!  Here’s a front end shot of a subway yard track underneath our layout. The No5 train is about to pull out into the mainline -

RickO....Winston Link?? 😉

I am going to take my K-Line Shay down from the shelf and run it this weekend.  Video to follow.

ADDED: Well, no video.  Sounds work, but it does not move.

Have another great FEF…🚂😉!!!

These are all FEF re-runs, but, I think, worthy of a re-visit.

An MTH, PRR, K-4s on a VERY RARE freight assignment on our former Christmas store layout at Richardson Farms in White Marsh, Maryland.

A K-Line, C&O Allegheny glides through the night on track #2 past the Terryville Suburban Station on the Great Northeastern Railway's (GNR's) tracks.

This is Lionel Post War splendor! A PRR S-2 steam turbine locomotive and a Santa Fe F-3 Diesel leave Union Station in the City of Christopolis for their respective destinations.

It’s 1941 and William Jeffers has just received his order for his new class of 4-8-8-4 locos….happy Friday

Happy FeF Morning! The sun shines in Paradise, California after weeks of constant rain!

Happy FEF, lots of great photos posted so far today!

I’m still getting modules put back together and laying some more mainline, but having lots of fun doing so.☺️

John

Have a great FEF all! Some PW Lionel and a Williams Sharknose have a good weekend!

Early morning equipment check at the Charles Street Yard...

FEF, Mantua Camel Back

Pic taken from the back side of the Main Floor “Showcase” Layout.

Rob Leese you've done magnificent work on your Frisco locos.

Ron H, beautiful triple play of locos.

Fatman, that makes me want to rethink tinplate.  Absolutely gorgeous and in great shape.

TnkMarx, the light bulb inside is making that whole MP15 glow.  Maybe it's got a nuclear reactor in place of the Detroit Diesel.

Bob who are the manufacturers of that RS3 and caboose?

jgtrh62, are you hand laying your track?

Doing a run through check for tomorrow's switching duties .....( Railking ps3 ) 

HAPPY  FEF  everyone .  God speed.

AMTRAK ACELA approaching Grand Central Terminal on The South Fork Railroad.

Wow, so many beautiful Fronts for reviewers, and I’m getting into the thread late. Happy FEF Friday folks. @W&W, that’s a beautiful Acela on a beautiful layout, @Dallas Joseph, that’s a beautiful switcher on a really nice layout, I think Maryland and Pennsylvania?, beautiful paint scheme,

@leapinlarry posted:

@Dallas Joseph, that’s a beautiful switcher on a really nice layout, I think Maryland and Pennsylvania?, beautiful paint scheme,

Thanks for your comments Larry .       Yep it's a Scale RK Maryland & Pennsylvania with a standard paint job and I just added the caution striping to the plow and frontal area.

@coach joe posted:

jgtrh62, are you hand laying your track?

Coach Joe,

all the track in those photos and all turnouts I build are hand laid, but I will use flex track for most of the rest of my layout.

John

@leapinlarry posted:

Wow, so many beautiful Fronts for reviewers, and I’m getting into the thread late. Happy FEF Friday folks. @W&W, that’s a beautiful Acela on a beautiful layout, @Dallas Joseph, that’s a beautiful switcher on a really nice layout, I think Maryland and Pennsylvania?, beautiful paint scheme,

Still a great looking layout enjoy looking around what you have on that layout, Wish I had room for a bigger layout like the old house with a turntable like yours WTG! God Speed! Mark

An accumulation of photos of club members' trains:

@coach joe posted:

Rob Leese you've done magnificent work on your Frisco locos.

Ron H, beautiful triple play of locos.

Fatman, that makes me want to rethink tinplate.  Absolutely gorgeous and in great shape.

TnkMarx, the light bulb inside is making that whole MP15 glow.  Maybe it's got a nuclear reactor in place of the Detroit Diesel.

Bob who are the manufacturers of that RS3 and caboose?

jgtrh62, are you hand laying your track?

Joe- the RS-3 is a MTH PS-2 model. The caboose is a RMT AristO series.

Bob

Larry what a great looking selection of front ends.

John the track work is amazing.

Bob I thought that was a RMT caboose but I thought the RS3 may have been K-Line.  I thought they made one in that scheme.

@coach joe posted:

Larry what a great looking selection of front ends.

John the track work is amazing.

Bob I thought that was a RMT caboose but I thought the RS3 may have been K-Line.  I thought they made one in that scheme.

K-line did one but it was closer to a blue and orange color instead of the prototypical gray on the MTH model.

https://www.worthpoint.com/wor...lirr-long-3843203349

Turntable, yards on The South Fork Railroad

Happy FEF!

Here’s the front end of a an R12 on the 7 line waiting to pull out of the station -

PW Lionel Prairie Type 2026 from 51-53 along with GG-1 2332 from 47-49 racing around the bend, Have a good FeF. And a good weekend. Nothing like the smell of a good PW motor working the rails!

Here's my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!

RS 1 about to go in the hole to clear the main for an oncoming passenger train.

10 minutes later one of the brakeman of the RS 1 takes this shot from the rear deck.  A Pennsy PA1 in charge of a secondary passenger train wizzes by at 70 mph.

Two more Atlas Premier PS3 SD40-2 engines just released…. Enjoy FEF

FeF Western Roads. Happy Friday!!!

Lionel SP F7 AA set LionChief Plus 2.0.

Lionel F7 ABA set Legacy.

This front end does not show up often on my 10'-by-5' model railroad.

MELGAR

Some of my Red, White, and Blue fleet.

A few engines.

A modern Lionel NYC Hudson on the "ready" track.

@Sitka posted:

PW Lionel Prairie Type 2026 from 51-53 along with GG-1 2332 from 47-49 racing around the bend, Have a good FeF. And a good weekend. Nothing like the smell of a good PW motor working the rails!

Must be a late night needin' all that coffee yer haulin', Mark!