Front End Friday

Great Northern SD7/9, Sunset Thirdrail model.

Mel, those New England roads will lease power from anyone.  Besides those GN colors look right at home as summer gives way to fall in the northeast.

TGIFEF

Have a great weekend all!
John

Happy Front End Friday!!!

I like F-3's     

Happy FEF!

Bob

It’s FEF again…have a great one!!! 🚂😉

Happy FEF !!!! 🙂  
3rd Rail MP E6s / Eagle paint on left and Jenks blue on right.    
Cheers !!! 😜

Hello FeFers,

Some images of my Lionel Century Club II freight shark's front end.  Really liked that this AA set had both engines powered with sound.

Here's my ends of the front kind for this fine Friday!   A nod to first responders and the front end of Big Hooker.

Lionel, PRR, 4-4-2, # 460. The "Lindbergh Atlantic".

Bob, is the blue F unit from Menard's?

Have a good FeF all on a frigid cold upstate NY

A few oldies, just hanging out and getting ready to move.

Western Maryland F-3 freight & B&O F-3 Columbian Passenger train on the SOUTH FORK RAILROAD.

Happy FEF.

MTH Premier Boston & Maine GP7 #1563 (20-2211-1 with PS1) was listed in the 1999 Volume 3 Catalog at an MSRP of $299.95 and delivered in December 1999. It’s been running frequently on my model railroads since then and now has a BCR.

MELGAR

Happy FEF - Atlas PS3 Union Pacific SD40-2 (UP calls these upgraded to SD40N) and Atlas PS3 Rio Grande GP40 from the latest releases.

Newest engine added to the roster. New England Central Railroad 3850. I will be changing it the 3855. Seeing how it’s on the CSOR roster I have to do it.

Hi everyone, its F.E.F. again, hope you had a good week.  Its 50 degrees here in Central Texas and sunny.  Yesterday it was 28 with icy frozen rain, that's Texas weather for you.  Sorry I don't have too much for you today.  Wife's cancer kicked up a notch so I have the "con" on the household + teenager + hospital visits but hopefully she will be back home in a few.

Today, I have a view of my "new" tinplate trains on the ready track - getting set for today's work.  We have a Hornby type 20 and a HWN clockwork steamer, both from middle 50's to early 60's along with a Karl Bub "Gate Keeper's House" offered from 1928-1934.  I am afraid that today the track work and scenery are "virtual". 

Better view of that type 20 from Hornby.

Best wishes everyone

Have a great weekend!

Don

1929 - 1931 390 and 1988 remake by Lionel of the 390E

Happy Front End Friday everyone! Here's Western Roads FeF this fine Friday afternoon.

Represented in the photo is Southern Pacific, Western Pacific, Denver & Rio Grande Western, and of course AT&SF Santa Fe.

@Don McErlean posted:

Hi everyone, its F.E.F. again, hope you had a good week.  Its 50 degrees here in Central Texas and sunny.  Yesterday it was 28 with icy frozen rain, that's Texas weather for you.  Sorry I don't have too much for you today.  Wife's cancer kicked up a notch so I have the "con" on the household + teenager + hospital visits but hopefully she will be back home in a few.

Best wishes everyone

Have a great weekend!

Don

Praying for your wife's speedy recovery Don.

Bob

@coach joe posted:

Bob, is the blue F unit from Menard's?

Nope. Lionel through and through.

It's got ERR boards and all LED lighting now.

Ditto on what @RSJB18 said,  @Don McErlean .  Wishing her a speedy remission and return.  A bit warmer down here is SoFla. So much so that I’ve been out Bass fishing all week, so better late than never with my MTA RS3 Front (actually back) end -

@Don McErlean posted:

Hi everyone, its F.E.F. again, hope you had a good week.  Its 50 degrees here in Central Texas and sunny.  Yesterday it was 28 with icy frozen rain, that's Texas weather for you.  Sorry I don't have too much for you today.  Wife's cancer kicked up a notch so I have the "con" on the household + teenager + hospital visits but hopefully she will be back home in a few.

Today, I have a view of my "new" tinplate trains on the ready track - getting set for today's work.  We have a Hornby type 20 and a HWN clockwork steamer, both from middle 50's to early 60's along with a Karl Bub "Gate Keeper's House" offered from 1928-1934.  I am afraid that today the track work and scenery are "virtual". 

Better view of that type 20 from Hornby.

Best wishes everyone

Have a great weekend!

Don

Prayers for your family Don.   God speed.

FEF...........-11 feel outside this evening with the wind here in west central Pa.

Ran in to snap a quick pic for FEF in the cold layout room ...............

..............and ran back out to the fireplace 

@Don McErlean posted:

Hi everyone, its F.E.F. again, hope you had a good week.  Its 50 degrees here in Central Texas and sunny.  Yesterday it was 28 with icy frozen rain, that's Texas weather for you.  Sorry I don't have too much for you today.  Wife's cancer kicked up a notch so I have the "con" on the household + teenager + hospital visits but hopefully she will be back home in a few.

Mrs Don is in my thoughts ... F%$# Cancer!  Hoping for the best outcomes old chum !

Keeping it simple for FEF ( or Slack Arse Sat'dee as it is here downunder now)

A ruff n ready Boomaroo floor train ( tram) made out of thick gauge steel with minimal litho/transfer on the front .. strong, sturdy, and beat to **** as they all are .. they are unpowered but they do have flanged wheels , which is a bit odd as they never were meant for track running , I can only guess that they had the dies for flanged and thought " bugger it , they'll do ! "

Missing the trolley pickup on top , but as its just a bit O' bent coathanger , we can rebuild it LOL

Things like this from the post war period are not that easy to find and are quickly snapped up by collectors , so I was very lucky to pick this one up from a mate very reasonably ( Thanks Pete! )

Australia has always been a pretty "practical " society , and no more so than during the post war time period , boys were lucky to get a toy once or twice a year , birthdays and/or Christmas , so mostly they got played to death ... The original owner of this would have been the envy of his mates ... how things have changed , now a kid whines because you bought them the "wrong phone"  .

. . . and. sticking with the trolley theme, may I present *four* trolleys (well, technically only three are running -- one is on chocks for misbehaving!), one on the el track, two (including the yellow one I *just* received, both on that loop having already been re-stickered for the "Baltimore and Annapolis Short Line Railroad" rather than "Lionel") are playing tag on the loop with my newly-installed trolley stop rewiring, and the aforementioned "bad" trolley is in time out on its own section of track:

Come to think of it, *which end* of a trolley is the "front end"? Hmmm . . .

No submission this week other than to say prayers and a speedy recovery to your wife Don.

Andy

@Don McErlean posted:

Wife's cancer kicked up a notch so I have the "con" on the household + teenager + hospital visits but hopefully she will be back home in a few.

Best wishes everyone

Have a great weekend!

Don

Don,

Best wishes to you and your wife. I hope she gets home soon and feels better.

MELGAR

Don,

Your wife (as well as you and your family) are in my thoughts and prayers.

May she get well soon!

Don I echo everyone that has offered prayers for your wife's recovery and in addition I offer prayers for you on Teenager Duty.

Here's a couple of GP faces.

THANK YOU ALL !!!   Bob (RSJB18), Strap Hanger, Dallas Joseph,, Fatman, Steamfan77, Melgar, Coach Joe and John (Lionelski) for your well wishes, good thoughts, and prayers for my wife.  They are most appreciated and certainly make us feel better.

Best wishes to all

Don

Happy FEF

Atlas engine just released in 2023 - C&NW SD40-2 with PS3.

MTH engine from 1994 - CSX C30-7 - horn only

Good morning FeF'ers,

Here are some images of my 3rd Rail postwar version of a PRR L1.  574 of these were produced between 1914-1919 and a lot of them lasted to the end of PRR steam in 1957.  3rd Rail did a really nice job on these.

Caught this out my window yesterday. Canadian National pusser at the end of a very long train.

Happy FeF! Here’s the front end of an R33 #7 train coming around the bend -

Happy FEF!

Bob