Front End Friday

Happy Friday everyone! Enjoy your weekend.

Have a good Front end Friday all

Here's my end of the front kind for this fine Friday Cinco de Mayo!!    

Patsburg Fire Dept. on the scene to cool down the front end of what was going to be a freight train. Heard on the fire truck radio " Engine 3 to dispatch.  shhhhhhhhh ( static noise ) Dispatch here go ahead engine three.  shhhh  Fire in locomotive has been extinguished. Final safety check completed.  No injuries to report.  Cancel all other responding units.  shhhhh  Dispatch here.  That's a 10-4 Engine three. Confirm your departure from scene when ready.  KG9116. shhhhhh.    

From the "What's the chances of this happening"..... book.......

On the previous page (#154), I was the first and last poster to the page.....

Gonna go play the lottery tonight!

Happy FEF Friday everyone!  Here is a shot of my recent York find moving in to take on water - an MTH NKP #765 Berk.   Have a great weekend everyone!

@trumpettrain posted:

Here's my end of the front kind for this fine Friday Cinco de Mayo!!    

Patsburg Fire Dept. on the scene to cool down the front end of what was going to be a freight train. Heard on the fire truck radio " Engine 3 to dispatch.  shhhhhhhhh ( static noise ) Dispatch here go ahead engine three.  shhhh  Fire in locomotive has been extinguished. Final safety check completed.  No injuries to report.  Cancel all other responding units.  shhhhh  Dispatch here.  That's a 10-4 Engine three. Confirm your departure from scene when ready.  KG9116. shhhhhh.    

Another great scene and story Patrick.

Gene

@RSJB18 posted:

From the "What's the chances of this happening"..... book.......

On the previous page (#154), I was the first and last poster to the page.....

Gonna go play the lottery tonight!

What a neat happening Bob.

(  .......seeing that I've responded to many of your posts, could you share your lottery numbers ?    )

@trumpettrain posted:

Here's my end of the front kind for this fine Friday Cinco de Mayo!!    

Nice scene Patrick .

The hazy smoke really pulls this shot together sir.

Like Patrick says for this FEF .....Happy "  CINCO DE MAYO ".

Find something really good about this weekend.   God bless all.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Like Patrick says for this FEF .....Happy "  CINCO DE MAYO ".

Find something really good about this weekend.   God bless all.

Dallas what mfg. made your PRR E44 #4465?

Ron

I brought down my 3rd Rail Train of Tomorrow set and plan to run it soon for some videos.  Need to oil it first.

Hi F.E.F. folks, I am a little pressed for time today but I can't miss a Friday post.  So here is a real Lionel PW workhorse, the #736 Berkshire, pulling out of the yard with her freight behind her.  This was a stalwart in Lionel's post war line up, used in many "outfits" (as Lionel called "sets").  It was available from 1950-51 and then from 1953-1966

Best wishes for a great weekend everyone

Don

She’s back and ready to run again after her bad accident.  Norfolk Southern just posted these:

@PRRronbh posted:

Dallas what mfg. made your PRR E44 #ee65?

Ron

MTH PS3 Railking .

@Dallas Joseph posted:

MTH PS3 Railking .

Interesting!  Back in 2007 I ordered and bought a pair.  Then MTH stated the numbers tone 4400, 4407 and 4465.  The PRR motors were numbered 4400 thru 4465.  I ordered want 4400 and 4465 as the fist and last numbers.  But was sent 4400 and 4407, then although listed 4465 was NOT made.

Ron

Happy Friday everyone! Santa Fe 341 pulling the Chief waits on a MOW crew to finish up some track side work.

Soo RS-27 #415 on a midnight run:

Boy, that horn was loud...

@Bill Swatos posted:

Soo RS-27 #415 on a midnight run:

Boy, that horn was loud...

Nice Bill.     Now enter it on that ' Imagineering in O guage photography '  thread.

@PRRronbh posted:

Interesting!  Back in 2007 I ordered and bought a pair.  Then MTH stated the numbers tone 4400, 4407 and 4465.  The PRR motors were numbered 4400 thru 4465.  I ordered want 4400 and 4465 as the fist and last numbers.  But was sent 4400 and 4407, then although listed 4465 was NOT made.

Ron

Here you go Ron.  Finally gathered info.        First RAILKING I've had with lighting for front and rear markers  , number boards and prototypical headlight opreration.

My dad’s postwar f3 still on the rails.

@Genemed posted:

Another great scene and story Patrick.

Gene

Thanks so much Gene.

Nice to see the Postwar Wabash

@trumpettrain posted:

Here's my end of the front kind for this fine Friday Cinco de Mayo!!    

Patsburg Fire Dept. on the scene to cool down the front end of what was going to be a freight train. Heard on the fire truck radio " Engine 3 to dispatch.  shhhhhhhhh ( static noise ) Dispatch here go ahead engine three.  shhhh  Fire in locomotive has been extinguished. Final safety check completed.  No injuries to report.  Cancel all other responding units.  shhhhh  Dispatch here.  That's a 10-4 Engine three. Confirm your departure from scene when ready.  KG9116. shhhhhh.    

Patrick, great story and scene, smoke and everything! The guy dragging the skid behind him just going about his business, “Just another day on the Railroad”, as you always say. Most enjoyable!

Have a good FeF! Some PW Lionel  U.P. Alcos working the rails. Have a good Mothers Day!

rjsmithindy, is that a Weaver Berk ?

Hello F.E.F. fans, another spring rainy day here in central Texas, so I guess I will have to play with some trains (oh well!).  @Sitka- I love the UP Alco's, I have those two myself and love to run them.  Hey by the way, in your picture I saw some Lionel PW cabooses.  I have been having a discussion on another thread with a member about the 6657 smoking caboose, you don't by any chance have one of those do you ?  I don't and they are rare but I thought I might just ask when I saw your picture.

OK for me today, the star of the show is my "new" Kline Kennecott Copper MP-15 that I hope to have running for tomorrow's Switcher Saturday .  So here are some pictures.  Note these are so new to out of the box that I noticed some small pieces of Styrofoam in the grill YIKES have to get a small brush to clean those out.  Well anyway here are the pictures.

Well there you are, Styrofoam and all...hope she runs good, I should find out today.

Best wishes

Don

Happy FEF!

A new addition to the fleet.

Happy FEF from North Carolina!

@SIRT posted:

Nice rare find RS, I have one in WF and one in grey / orange. RS-1's are my Fav's!

Photo uploader on OGR quit working.

Thanks Steve. I was checking Trainz site last weekend during the free shipping promotion and there she was. It's an Atlas with TMCC.

Now my green one has a partner.

Bob

K-Line Canadian Mist passenger set.

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

FeF for this fine Friday. The Skookum 2-4-4-2 articulated at the Niles Canyon train Station in Sunol, CA. I took this shot back in October 2021. Have a great weekend you all.

Here are some images of my 3rd Rail PRR H6.  I was going over my inventory to do some updates when I realized I sent this engine to be fixed over 4 months ago.  Guess I should call them and see where its at

Time is flying, we have been on the road going places, everything but having time to visit my favorite forum, the OGR Forum, Front End Friday’s, WOW… beautiful pictures everyone. I wish you all a great weekend, hopefully you having some time with your trains…Happy Railroading Everyone

Happy Front End Friday Southeast Style.

@Don McErlean posted:

Hello F.E.F. fans, another spring rainy day here in central Texas, so I guess I will have to play with some trains (oh well!).  @Sitka- I love the UP Alco's, I have those two myself and love to run them.  Hey by the way, in your picture I saw some Lionel PW cabooses.  I have been having a discussion on another thread with a member about the 6657 smoking caboose, you don't by any chance have one of those do you ?  I don't and they are rare but I thought I might just ask when I saw your picture.

OK for me today, the star of the show is my "new" Kline Kennecott Copper MP-15 that I hope to have running for tomorrow's Switcher Saturday .  So here are some pictures.  Note these are so new to out of the box that I noticed some small pieces of Styrofoam in the grill YIKES have to get a small brush to clean those out.  Well anyway here are the pictures.

Well there you are, Styrofoam and all...hope she runs good, I should find out today.

Best wishes

Don

Thanks Don those Alco are greayt runners Lionel should have kept them with that motor design. I wish I did, been keeping an eye on ebay. But they are pricey and hard to find. God Speed Don!

Happy FeF and weekend everyone!

Started getting my next section ready to lay track today.

Cheers!

John

Great photos everyone! Here is the front end of a Redbird coming around the bend -

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

They are here. My Waterman Locomotive Works Std Gauge Canadian Pacific F7’s. Did a short test, they do run on 57” curves. Each loco has a toggle reverse switch underneath. About 19” long each. Looking forward to getting the cars that will go with them.

Steve